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How the Media Erases Trans Truth – and What We Can Do About It

By Cnlester @cnlester

For LGBT History Month this year, I was honoured to be invited to speak at Oxford University – and determined to demonstrate the ways in which trans history is very far from a niche concern.

If you’re a trans person, you’re probably aware that ‘trans issues’ described by the mainstream media very rarely match up with our lived truths. What is often erased, smoothed over? The fact that this has been going on for a very long time – that things have been different, and can be different again – and that our history is necessary for our future survival.

Video and audio podcast below. I hope you enjoy.

https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/embed/a7b1cd0aa26375af6a2e

https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/embed/0a2f4f2b822bee1b5fc4


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