Accurate reporting of court case outcomes, the crimes committed by male people where media refused to use demanded female language, and articles reporting and discussing policy changes that centred female people’s needs is now being framed as ‘negative media for transgender people’?
Thank you for the heads up that this previous tactic is back again. It is remarkable, isn’t it, that the public relations exercise that was flooding the media with stories that focused on one group of people so that that group was overrepresented in all media, including tv shows, has back fired. Because people are human and eventually resent the fuck out of feeling manipulated by media.
Whether it is news, movies, social media, the backlash comes eventually when people feel that they have been manipulated and that they are being told to support subjective beliefs that are not based on material reality instead of being told about the material reality around them.
If reporting on court cases and policy change discussions and outcomes is now being classified as ‘negative’ media for male people with transgender identities instead of as positive moments for female people, that is more saying the quiet bits out loud.
If the manipulative and false labelling or categorising women’s and girl’s rights campaigners as ‘anti-trans’ in media, including nationally owned media agencies, has also artificially increased the number of ‘negative’ mentions of trans people, well, that gets ignored doesn’t it? That women’s and girl’s rights campaigners are labelled as ‘anti-trans’ means an increase in negative media mentions is guaranteed.
This thread has been a great insight into tactics.