Cisgender people, media bosses conclude, do not want to watch a news item about a trans call-centre worker talking about his poor pay and how his shift patterns make medical appointments difficult – because it is depressing and, arguably, familiar to many low-paid non-trans people with medical conditions of their own. People do, however (or so the reasoning goes), want to watch a late-night Channel 4 documentary in which a trans woman gets large breast implants or has her browbone shaved down.
