UK charity Mermaids, which supports transgender youth, has released a powerful new commercial that highlights the effects of continual negative media coverage and social commentary about young people who are transgender.
The clip sees a young girl struggling to be heard over a barrage of negative media reports. The United Kingdom, like Australia, has seen an onslaught of negative reports about transgender youth and the doctors who provide medical services.
The charity recently highlighted that many reports appearing in the UK press were based on rumour and not backed up by scientific studies. Mermaids said the media needed to do a better job in covering transgender issues accurately and without bias.
“We do know that our service users are being regularly demonised in the national press by a small number of people who seem intent on ruthlessly attacking defenceless children and encouraging their cis’ classmates to mock, isolate and ridicule them. We say: shame on you. The newspapers, the journalists and the “equality campaigners”, who seem determined to injure and cow every transgender person in the country, regardless of their age or vulnerability.
Take a look at their commercial.
OIP Staff
