2024-08-18 10:14:40
Dozens of people joined the protest outside TVN following the Special Report report on transgender children in Chile.
Dozens of protesters took part on Monday in a protest in front of TVN, in order to question a report from the program Informe Especial entitled “Our Trans Children”which addressed gender transitions in children and adolescents.
The activity was organized by Memoria Transmasculina, the Tres Diablas Enropadas Collective and the Association Organizing Trans Diversities (OTD), which He accused the program of spreading “false, biased and transphobic information during prime time”.
Through a statement posted on their Instagram account, OTD stated that “TVN’s approach is reprehensible, contrary to the international legal systemand gave space to people associated with the Republican Party, whose representatives consider us deviant and unworthy of rights.”
“We are facing a coordinated attack by anti-rights groups, media outlets and journalists who support the trans population, against public policies that protect them, seeking to eliminate the PAIG program. Many trans families have been harmed by the dissemination of false information, ignoring their experiences and the means that the State must guarantee for their development.“, OTD stated in the text.
For its part, the Homosexual Integration and Liberation Movement (Movilh) also condemned the editorial line of the program and asserted that the episode “It constitutes a severe setback for respect for the human rights of LGBTIQ+ people in the media field“.
According to the group, the report “It lacked conceptual rigor, and in several of its parts it used crude and sensationalist language.omitted the ideological interests and transphobic militancy of those it presented as experts and made statements that it failed to develop or demonstrate even in its own report.”
The protest at TVN over the report
Late Monday afternoon Dozens of people gathered outside TVN, with the aim of holding a protest due to the tone of the aforementioned report.
At that place, the organizers They accused the program of using “derogatory language” towards the trans community.
“We will not allow them to continue trampling on us, that they continue to allow hate speech so that they continue to kill us in the streets“said one of the speakers.
Check out some below Videos showing the protest outside TVN and which later went viral on social media.