Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

On the radio

  • 23-02-2013 4:13pm
    #1
    niamh_eile
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭


    There once was a trans woman who wasn't happy with the way a radio show had talked about a fellow (but very famous) trans woman, so she wrote in to complain and was encouraged by the programme's team to come on air. She did, reluctantly. And while she wasn't happy with the way the interview focused too much on personal issues and not on the original topic (how to respectfully refer to trans women and the various types of identities covered by the term 'transgender', of which she had so much in mind to discuss), she was happy that she had played a small part to raise awareness amongst the general public. URL="http://tinyurl.com/655a9bw"]Feed address of show[/URL.


Comments

  • #2
    Freiheit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭Freiheit


    Gut gemacht Niamh!


  • #3
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Fair play to you Niamh, you came across great.


  • #4
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Just listened

    Well done. Ryan is such a twat at times.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #5
    Freiheit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭Freiheit


    Yeah I noticed a lot of ignorance about this story on rte,misogyny in general from a lot of male broadcasters ' well we wouldn't really be bothered with the Irish women's rugby team if the men had won', some Gob****e said that on 'the one show'.

    But I think that Lana Wachowski has been great for trans people,probably the most high profile trans person in this digital age,will help to normalise 'us' in the same way that other minorities have been.


  • #6
    niamh_eile
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭niamh_eile


    Thanks all! :-) Thanks for the support and kind words.


  • Advertisement
Advertisement