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Trans Panic Violence and Defamation on SyFy Channel’s Lost Girl Goes Unanswered

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By Diana O’Brien 16 Jan 2013 The third season premiere of Lost Girl just demonstrated the well-worn path for advancing gay/lesbian/bisexual themes in the media. That path continues to be walking over the crushed public image of transgender people. Lost Girl has received a lot of attention for its sexually charged plot lines and positive portrayal of lesbian and bisexual female characters. Even GLAAD has taken notice of the show, promoting it in The GLAAD Wrap and What to Watch. Season 3 Episode 1 titled Caged Fae brings transphobia and trans panic violence back into the mix. Originally broadcast on 14 Jan 2013, the villain of the week, portrayed by Sarain Boylan, a sadistic and sexually abusive women’s prison warden and the female leader of the amazon prison guards. The warden violates the inmates and secretly impregnates them to sell their babies. The media needs to take responsibility for its

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Why this article may matter

Community significance

“Trans Panic Violence and Defamation on SyFy Channel’s Lost Girl Goes Unanswered” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to violence, safety, and dehumanization, while also engaging media, rhetoric, and discourse. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2013 at Transadvocate.com, “Trans Panic Violence and Defamation on SyFy Channel’s Lost Girl Goes Unanswered” provides dated evidence of how violence, safety, and dehumanization was being argued in relation to media, rhetoric, and discourse. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is criminal justice and public safety. It links that institutional frame to violence, safety, and dehumanization and media, rhetoric, and discourse, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

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Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
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Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
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Criminal justice and public safety
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How “Violence, safety, and dehumanization” appears across the Collective corpus

This article was published during the theme’s highest-presence year in the registered corpus (2013).

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Article authors

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57 publications · 87 inbound sources/citations

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Cristan Williams

319 publications · 3,580 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.