transphobia Archives

Recent coverage of JK Rowling's statements about women have been criticised for transphobia, and a common question regarding other people, such as Graham Linehan, is asking how such otherwise prominent liberal folk growing up in Britain and Ireland have found themselves taking a public illiberal line on this issue? And not seeming to care who[...]

Doctor Who writer Gareth Roberts recently shared a series of trans-misogynistic tweets, adding to a history of inflammatory comments.

Image has come out with a deeply supportive statement of Howard Chaykin's 'The Divided States of Hysteria', despite widespread accusations of transphobia.

We examine Howard Chaykin's history of including transgender characters in his work, particularly pre-op trans characters, in light of recent controversy

We take a look at how two companies reacted to concerns of transphobia in comics in the same week. From Drawn&Quarterly to Image, Berliac to Howard Chaykin

It is also imperative that I asume [sic] responsibility and fully understand the accusations of transphobia around that same incident. Berliac claims to have learned much in the two years since he wrote the essay Gay Jin This short essay seemed to compare being trans to a kind of 'gender appropriation' on a par with cultural appropriation among[...]

He's still a man." Hamill originally wrote the story in 1978, which could account for its insensitivity to a modern understanding of transphobia However, it's still being made now, in 2017, with all the benefits of hindsight. For Walter Hill, however, complaints about the film are indicative of a larger problem with society, rather than the film itself[...]