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Looking into it and found a plausible reason we'd have different takes on it. Im british, the UK's Creative Diversity Network has specific data on this. Transgender performers accounted for 1.3% of scripted TV contributions in 2019, falling to 0.8% in 2025, compared with a population benchmark of 0.5%. So at least here, representation does appear to be declining towards population proportionality, rather than falling below it.
Whereas in the US its at about one eighth of the relative population percentage, which is fairly mad.
how is that, weighted for proportionality? lines screen time importance etc?
and then remember that we should be over represented. its fucking theater and media studies. that's gayer than a woman with a reverse shrink ray driving a uhaul with a busted suspension into her now-giant girlfriend's pussy after knowing her for 30 minutes, then adopting 20 cats.
What a weird and dehumanized way to analyze this problem.
How else would you analyse it?
Well see there are whole bodies of academia that have been devoted to critically analyzing media and how it intersects with society, just quantifying numbers and crudely applying the benchmark doesn't really tell you the full story and if I need to point that out to you, you desperately need a more well rounded humanities education.
You can "hit the numbers" so to speak with a movie for diversity and do nothing for actual representation if you undermine and hamstring the representation of diversity and bottle it up as secondary to the story, or do the opposite and repeatedly elevate diversity as an inherently tragic narrative.
The post wasn't about the quality of the representation?
Maybe you need to take your time reading before responding shittily? You'll have much more fruitful conversations at the very least.
the quantity here presented as an indicator. so people can have a number to talk about because the actual thing 'kinds of stories in the zeitgeist' is really fucking hard to quantify and get scary about even when a scary thing us happening, which it is.
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Hmmm who does this sound like?
Who?
Captain Cherry Picker of the HMS Selective Quote.
The article itself uses quantitative data extensively to establish its argument. I simply asked how representation compares with population demographics, which is a perfectly legitimate question. Suggesting that makes me comparable to executives rejecting trans stories as "too alienating" is a spectacular leap in logic by someone bathing in their unpleasant emotional state.