GLAAD calls for increased and accurate media coverage of transgender murders
In the first seven months of this year, the deaths of 16 transgender people have been reported. That’s a rate of more than two transgender people killed every month. This number does not include transgender people whose deaths were not reported due to misgendering in police reports, news stories, and sometimes by the victim’s family.
The most recent victim is Dee Whigham, a 25-year-old Black transgender woman who was stabbed to death in a hotel near Biloxi, Mississippi on Saturday night. Whigham worked as a registered nurse in Hattisburg, Miss.
GLAAD is calling on the media to:
- Report on each transgender person murdered. In order for people to be aware of the unprecedented violence affecting the community, the public needs to know it is happening. The media has a responsibility to communicate about the deadly realities faced by transgender people.
- Respect and use the lived identity, name, and pronoun of the victim. Disregarding the victim’s gender identity and misgendering them in news reports adds further insult to injury, compounding the tragedy by invalidating who the victims were. GLAAD’s Doubly Victimized: Reporting on Transgender Victims of Crime offers clear guidelines for reporting respectfully on stories where transgender people have been victimized by crime.
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“As of today transgender service members can serve their country without fear of losing their jobs or their benefits. This is an important step toward acknowledging that transgender people exist in all walks of life - in every profession, neighborhood, and school - and that discriminating against us is not an American value. The next step is to ensure that when service members leave the military, they can return home to a country that protects them from discrimination at their next job, or when renting an apartment, going to college, or simply using the bathroom at a restaurant. But today we celebrate another step toward full acceptance of transgender people and recognize the thousands of trans people who have served our country for decades,” said Nick Adams, the director of GLAAD’s Transgender Media program.
