Transgender Topics Featured on BBC Radio

I am amazed at just how usually BBC radio is featuring transgender and other gender concerns at the moment. I found this as a outcome of a telephone contact from a BBC Appear North journalist asking for some guidance concerning kids transitioning. This was prompted by a 15 minute drama series on the problem on Lady's Hour which was broadcast the week prior to Christmas.

I hadn't heard about the series so searched iPlayer and not only discovered it, but came across a Transgender hyperlink which revealed no fewer than 14 current clips, documentaries and plays featuring transgender problems broadcast on BBC Radio. Sufficient to justify a Transgender difficulties web page and most of these programmes are nonetheless obtainable for a handful of weeks.

The 5 portion drama written Mark Davies Markham named Just A Girl. addresses an exciting subject I have never ever heard featured prior to on either radio or Television. Amy was born a boy but now at 11 is living as a girl and desperate to have therapy to block puberty. Faced with that selection, her father is acquiring it difficult to help her and her grandfather refuses to see Amy as a girl. The play bargains with the increasing conflict in the household as they all have to come to terms with the irreversible adjust they are all facing.

In the preceding week the afternoon drama, the Giffnock Girls by Marcella Evaristi, capabilities 3 childhood good friends who re-unite when PJ returns after years in New York, and now lives as a lady. The play is mostly about persons facing crisis, just one of which is the acceptance of PJ as a lady.

The immediately after week a different afternoon play by Mateusz Dymek referred to as Pink Boy Blue Girl seemed to also address trans concerns, but in truth is exploring gender identity by way of a couple who have decided to bring up their child gender neutral. The couple have decided not to reveal to everyone else what the child's correct gender is. This is a subject that has been in the news a few instances not too long ago and parents generating the very same selection have come beneath considerable media stress. This play on the other hand, while beginning to discover this problem - is essentially additional about the connection issues of the couple than the gender difficulties of the child.

I am pleased to see that transgender and gender identity troubles are obtaining such higher profile on the BBC and far more specially that there is a powerful Training flavour to the programmes. Maybe ultimately, 15 years after the initial legislation to make discrimination against Transgender men and women illegal, we are lastly beginning to see good promotion of transgender challenges and additional specially, seeing trans concerns as a portion of life.

I am definitely going to step up my activity in advertising that message this year.

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