The president of GLAAD is asking on Hollywood to create extra transgender characters for TV, saying a cultural “watershed moment” is required related to the one which gays skilled within the 90s.
Sarah Kate Ellis, who has served as GLAAD’s prime govt for a decade, spoke to Variety about what she plans to say when she receives a particular award through the Emmys on Monday.
“We have seen those watershed moments (for lesbian, gay and bisexual representation), whether it was Ellen DeGeneres coming out or Will & Grace,” Ellis informed the commerce publication.
“What we don’t have yet is a watershed moment for the trans community. I see this opportunity as a chance to speak to the academy and all the creators in the room to say that we need that moment. We need you to create and write about trans people because there were over 500 anti-LGBTQ bills proposed this past year and most are against trans people and our trans youth.”
Ellis is referring to laws that protects youngsters from irreversible medical procedures together with sex-change operations and hormone remedy.
The mainstream information media makes use of the innocuous-sounding time period “gender-affirming care” to describe these procedures, a lot of that are experimental when it comes to youngsters.
Ellis added: “But what’s taking up that space in the media right now are political pundits who are talking about trans people with misinformation and in negative ways. We need Hollywood to be the antidote to that.”
GLAAD’s most up-to-date range report discovered that transgender characters accounted for 5.4 % of the characters, each common and recurring, throughout all platforms on TV from 2022 to 2023.
In actuality, lower than 1 % of adults identifies as transgender, in accordance to a study of UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute.
However, the variety of youth figuring out as trans is surging, with the research’s estimate of the variety of youth who determine as transgender doubling from the earlier estimate.
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