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"It's like we are not human": discourses of humanisation and otherness in the representation of trans identity in British broadsheet newspapers.
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Feminist Media Studies . Sep2023, Vol. 23 Issue 6, p2962-2978. 17p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- This paper examines how transgender identity is represented across articles from three British national newspapers: The Guardian, The Times and The Telegraph. Transgender identity has become a highly contentious issue in areas of western culture, especially Britain, and even within feminism itself, with heightened visibility leading to a backlash against the rights of trans people to protection, and even recognition, in law. However, the influence of the broadsheets, Britain's so-called "quality" newspapers, in shaping the debate over transgender rights is under-researched. Using feminist critical discourse analysis (Michelle), I assess how the above newspapers position transgender subjects to alternatively legitimize or "other" transgender identity. Despite polarisation on issues of trans rights between newspapers, this paper finds that both "pro-trans" and "anti-trans" articles appropriate a feminist lexicon to define womanhood and gender in ways that justify their stance and foster division within wider society. I conclude that (white, cisheteronormative) feminism has become a vehicle for mainstream news media to further political agendas that can be crudely cast as either "progressive" or "conservative". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14680777
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Feminist Media Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 173273272
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2022.2097727