Trans Journalists Association Style Guide- what can/cannot be said

”While there’s no good data, a Swedish study found only 2.2 percent of participants who sought gender-affirming medical care regretted their transition.” — It wasn't 2.2% who regretted transition, it was 2.2% who asked for further surgery to reverse their transition. That's very different. I can imagine many more may have regretted allowing their bodies to be mutilated, without wanting to subject themselves to further mutilation

Don’t you realise that correcting false statements is literally killing people, FallenIn?

I saw this 'Style Guide' on Twitter and read through in disbelief. Who on Earth thinks these are acceptable guidelines for media outlets? Is it an American organisation? How damaging to argue that discussions of men's health and women's health are offensive and transphobic! Also, let's sweep under the carpet those pesky detransitioners who are no longer part of the ideology. They don't look great for us trans people so please don't report their painful experiences. I'm fairly new to this but it makes me so uncomfortable to see GC feminism labelled as a hate group. Are we allowed to ask for sensitivity readers too? According to this we deserve no platform and aren't even worthy of the label 'feminist' - because we support women!

”Or is only centering trans people permitted?“

Yes, @SonEtLumiere - the brave and stunning trans people must be centred in everything. HTH.

Women - know your place. Sorry - menstruators and cervix-havers - know your place.

One tries one's best, @Winesalot. And sorry!

Owen Jones has retweeted the Trans Journalist Association. I wonder if he has read this Style Guide?

Calling trans people 'truscum'? How very inclusive Owen....

Only mastectomy, a surgery performed on those observed female at birth, is euphemised (as "chest masculisation"). Who benefits from and who suffers because of this obfuscation?

FAOD, no, shoehorning an only tangentially related issue into an exposé about another issue is not what I was taught constitutes good journalism, even though it is a tactic beloved of zealots. But then again, I don't think the author(s) of this guidance are overly concerned with good journalism. It's utterly bizarre to me of course, as this is the kind of style guide used in the totalitarian state I grew up in.

don’t mention women unless it means transwomen as well

Even if you are a believer, this is concerning.

Not only does this mean you cannot for instance write an article about why black women have a higher mortality rate in childbirth than white women, or about managing menopause in the workplace, you also couldn't write an article about these issues even if you included females who identify as trans - transitioning teens are thrown into the menopause when they commence hormone treatments and could easily be shoehorned into an article about managing the menopause in the workplace. And becoming pregnant and giving birth while identifying as trans may also bring medical challenges the rest of us don't face, so could be mentioned in an article about differing outcomes for different groups of women in childbirth.

It's not hard to see whose interests are foremost in this guide, is it?

trans medievalist - someone who believes they still lives in medieval times and we should all respect this as it literally erases their identity if we declare its 2020 and women are not owned by men nor burned at the stake, slavery is no longer an acceptable practice and peasants should merely do what their local landowner tells them, accept his unfair and harsh judgment in legal matters and should passively accept abuse, poverty and hunger without questioning it because its the Good Lords Way and enduring it is part of religious teaching.

I honestly don't understand why they are doing this - no proper journalist with any credibility would look at that list and think 'yes, that constitutes good journalism'. They are just making themselves look like a group that are not to be taken seriously. Whhhhyyyyyy?!

Women who question trans ideology are called terfs and transexuals who question trans ideology are called truscum. I wonder what lovely term of enderment they'll come up with for detransitioners.

The who thing stinks to hell.

They define it as Transmedicalists are a fringe part of the trans community who believe that experiencing gender dysphoria and seeking gender-affirming medical care is a prerequisite of being trans.

The 'trans umbrella' has done a huge diservice to the transexual people it is supposed to protect. This is the biggest hypocracy of the whole movement.

The whole, don't discuss detransitioners makes me think of Scientology.

Its very sinister.

From the guidance: Is at least one of those transgender people not a white transgender woman?

Many diversity guides ask something along the lines of "is at least one of those panellists not a white man?" or other wording intended to highlight a need for colour and sex diversity. This reference to "white transgender woman" as non-diverse "default" trans person equivalent to "white man" in other contexts is a very revealing admission about whether the authors of this document actually believe that TWAW. Normally, we'd jump to have more women's voices, right?

How incredibly presumptuous--"don't interview anyone who disagrees with me."

If someone wanted to a film biography of someone famous, say Caitlyn Jenner, does this mean that the film makers would have to refer to Jenner as Caitlyn while covering the section on winning gold at the Olympics, unless Jenner gave permission otherwise?

I am wondering if Caitlyn would have to be played by a trans actress throughout all her decathlon years.

I also think the most chilling aspect of this is silencing trans people who don’t agree with them.

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I only wish disabled people had such powerful advocates in the media or elsewhere.

Having said that I do think you have a right to be wrong and people who would otherwise treat you well might use the ‘wrong’ language. While I would like to be treated better I want it to come from a place of empathy not fear.