http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:00:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/18/bodily-autonomy-confessions-of-a-transsexual-sex-worker/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/18/bodily-autonomy-confessions-of-a-transsexual-sex-worker/#comments Mon, 18 Jun 2012 02:00:25 +0000 Paris Lees http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25333 When Channel 4 screened Ria: Diary of a Teen Transsexual last Tuesday I was prepared for ignorant comments. I didn’t predict though that criticism towards 17 year old Ria would focus so heavily on her sex work.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/18/bodily-autonomy-confessions-of-a-transsexual-sex-worker/feed/ 67 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/31/heard-the-one-about-the-ladyboy-media-jokes-about-trans-people-are-not-acceptable/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/31/heard-the-one-about-the-ladyboy-media-jokes-about-trans-people-are-not-acceptable/#comments Thu, 31 May 2012 03:00:44 +0000 Paris Lees http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=24806 “Transsexual” has become shorthand for someone ridiculous, someone unnamed, someone that nice, middle-class people probably don’t know. Transphobia has passed the dinner table test because those who mock trans people simply don’t expect to see one of us at their dinner tables. I’d like to petition high profile trans newsreaders and politicians to raise awareness, but none exist. Trans people are today’s Aunt Sallys – and comics throw pies at us with impunity.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/31/heard-the-one-about-the-ladyboy-media-jokes-about-trans-people-are-not-acceptable/feed/ 189