{"id":230,"date":"2011-02-06T17:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aberth.com\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2011-02-06T17:00:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T17:00:17","slug":"life-as-a-transgender-person-digital-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aberth.com\/digitalstorytelling\/life-as-a-transgender-person-digital-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Life as a transgender person &#8211; digital story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jenny-Anne Bishop explains what life was like as a transgender person growing up and living in Wales. She talks about the difficult experiences she has had with her family as a result of her transition.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zH_66ADXxfI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of four digital stories made by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storyworksglam.co.uk\/\">StoryWorks<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalityhumanrights.com\/wales\/\">Equality and Human Rights Commission Wales<\/a> and I first saw it at their workshop for journalists and programme-makers called &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalityhumanrights.com\/wales\/events\/not-just-another-statistic-a-workshop-for-journalists-and-programme-makers\/\">Not just another statistic<\/a>&#8216; on 17 January 2011 in Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p>Guardian columnist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/juliet-jacques\">Juliet Jacques<\/a> spoke about trans-related portrayal challenges and Romani journalist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.travellerstimes.org.uk\/?tag=jake-bowers\">Jake Bowers<\/a> called for the media to stop being so shockingly racist when covering Gypsy and Traveller Community stories. 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