http://transnewsinternational.twoday.net/ nongduu nongduu 2008-07-27T10:09:16Z en hourly 1 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z http://static.twoday.net/icon.gif http://transnewsinternational.twoday.net/ http://transnewsinternational.twoday.net/stories/5070304/ Found at <a href="http://news.trendaz.com/index.shtml?show=news&newsid=1251350&lang=EN">Trend News</a><br /> <br /> Television watchdogs were investigating after transgender people were described as "human monsters" in a Chinese language television programme, a media report said Sunday, the dpa reported. <br /> The expression "yan yiu," which translates as "human monster," was used 23 times during a report on transgender people in Thailand broadcast by the ATV television station, the South China Morning Post said. <br /> The expression also appeared in subtitles 28 times in the segment which lasted 11 minutes and 45 seconds. <br /> Sam Winter, a professor at the University of Hong Kong's faculty of education and also director of Transgender ASIA Research Centre, said the use of the expression would damage Hong Kong's reputation as a cosmopolitan city. <br /> <br /> He filed a complaint with the Broadcasting Authority and asked the television station and producers of the programme to apologize publicly to the local transgender community. <br /> "It is unimaginable to call transgender people freaks on TV in other developed sections of the world - you won't hear the word 'nigger' on television in the US," Winter said. <br /> The Broadcasting Authority confirmed it had received the complaint and said it would look into it. <br /> Lennie Chui, who has changed gender from male to female, felt offended by the use of the expression and the attitude shown towards transgender people. "The television programme adopted a 'freak investigation approach' to look into the lives of transgender people. I felt I was being exploited and it caused me discomfort," she said. <br /> <br /> Found at <a href="http://news.trendaz.com/index.shtml?show=news&newsid=1251350&lang=EN">Trend News</a><br /> <br /> Technorati: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/china" rel="tag" class="techtag">china</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/transgender" rel="tag" class="techtag">transgender</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/transsexual" rel="tag" class="techtag">transsexual</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/discrimination" rel="tag" class="techtag">discrimination</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/human" rel="tag" class="techtag">human</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/right" rel="tag" class="techtag">right</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/television" rel="tag" class="techtag">television</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/" rel="tag" class="techtag"></a> nongduu <a href="http://transnewsinternational.twoday.net/topics/Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a> Copyright © 2008 nongduu 2008-07-20T07:10:00Z Search this site: q http://transnewsinternational.twoday.net/search