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Here are the numbers of trans-related stories logged in the last fifteen days by the excellent Trans Media Watch:

Guardian - 1
Metro - 1
Mirror - 1
The Sun - 4
Daily Mail - 12

Why is the Mail so obsessed, that it feels impelled to publish a new article pretty much every day? Only Paul Dacre can answer that, alas. Meanwhile, the bottom of the barrel has long since been scraped, and we're now staring into the abyss of Unstory. The hapless hacks must be worried about what to write next, so to keep them going here are a few suggestions for the coming week:

Trans Woman Goes to Shop to Buy Pint of Milk
Psychiatrists Claim she is trying to Compensate for Lack of "Natural" Breasts

Trans Man Calls in Sick Twice in Nine Months
Personnel Professionals Fear Rise of Fake "Man Flu"


Suburban Garden Infested with Hermaphroditic Snails
Politically-Correct Zoologists Claim it is "Perfectly Normal" - but What do YOU think?


Family With Transgender Parent Complains About Press Harrassment
We Camp Outside Their House Until they Tell Us Why


And finally, a two-parter that can be toggled back and forth day after day after day after day....

Torment of Boy Who Claims He's a Girl
Bullied and Called "Freak" by Schoolmates

Freak "Boy-Girl" Protected by Teachers
Leftie Council "Confuses" Children, say Experts


That should keep them going for a while. But I'm sure there are more that could be added...

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 10:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/
Here's hoping that the Mail will eventually stop being so mindblowingly stupid.

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 10:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com
Unfortunately, there's a brisk demand for mindblowingly stupid - with a large side-order of malice to give it piquancy, of course.

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 12:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/
Yep, and it's very depressing.

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 12:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com
Oy! Don't get me started on the 'Fail'. I've been fighting this garbage for nigh on forty years.

That said the so called ever so liberal 'Grauniad' isn't a whole heap better- they employ Julie Bindel after all, who believes that every ill of womankind can be laid firmly and squarely at our door.

Hopefully, Leveson may finally do something about this, but I'm not holding my breath. :o(

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 12:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ron-broxted.livejournal.com
Trannygate hits Big Brother Series 13 UK. Watch this space.

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 12:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] calimac.livejournal.com
As a dead-on critique of the media mindset, it's enough to make me wonder if you're actually a pseudonym for this guy.

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 01:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com
That's pretty damn unoriginal of 'em. Nadia Almada, a trans woman, won one of the series years back.

Oy gevalt!

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 01:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com
I'm flattered! And thanks for the link - it's very good.

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 01:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com
I think the Press as a whole is trying to head Leveson off by "reforming" the new-look PCC into a posture of toothful independence, before he gets the chance to report. Whether the Government will be fooled by that - or will choose to be - remains to be seen.

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 01:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com
It's that or they know this appalling shit is for the axe very shortly so they're going out of their way to be as appalling as possible before the axe finally falls.

Or perhaps they're just pushing to see how much they'll be allowed to get away with?

One can only hope it's the former!

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 03:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ron-broxted.livejournal.com
"Melissa" says it was unfair to her. You win today's coolest name contest;)

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 03:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com
:o)

I'll be sure to avoid watching it! Not difficult as I've managed to avoid all the other series-ies.

It's dead boring in truth and displays my total lack of originality when it comes to usernames:

C-hiara M-arianna C-astelnuovo-McK-enzie.

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 04:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sartorias.livejournal.com
Trans Person Buys Clothing!

That should make for incredible excitement, going from one side of the store to the other to get underwear, woohoo.

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 04:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com
Trans woman wears female undergarments shock horror

Oh, wait............

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 04:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com
It's a threat to the very foundation garments of society!

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 04:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sartorias.livejournal.com
*just choked on my tea*

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 04:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com
S'pose I could always borrow hubby's boxers? :o)

Trans woman wears male undergarments shock horror..............

Hmmmm.....sometimes you just can't win!

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 05:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sartorias.livejournal.com
They could get a four-parter our of that one! No, SIX!

trans lesbian wears male boxers married to woman who also wears boxers!

trans male wears boxers married to . . .

[mix and match genders and underwear at will]

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 05:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com
In our case they'd have a field day- he's cis, I'm trans. AND he's a senior civil servant. :oD

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 05:30 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] maellenkleth
La, and I'm a ruddy colliery-manager. Go figure.

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 05:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sartorias.livejournal.com
The horror, the scandal! "He and she" (or are they???) buy the same kind of underwear!!!. (They could also get into the kink of cis couples doing the same . . . . like us, for example.)

Wow, would that sell papers!

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 06:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ron-broxted.livejournal.com
Last few years BB has gone downhill. Throw it down! Your real name is Tracey Sharon Newcastle MacNZ.

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 06:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com
Damn! You guessed! :op

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 06:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com
Or not!

We need to recall that newspaper sales are in terminal decline which is why, I suspect, they are so desperate to sell!

Friending, btw, if you don't object? We seem to have numerous interests in common (oo-er, missus) and at least one friend.

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-16 06:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sartorias.livejournal.com
Awesome! Let's.

(no subject)

Date: 2012-03-17 11:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com
Done! :o)

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