The Good Law Project has apologised and cancelled a pro-Trans Rights ad campaign after its imagery offended Trans Rights campaigners. Oh dear…
A billboard campaign featuring monstrous animals like sharks and dinosaurs with the text “Of course I support trans – I’m not a monster” has rubbed people up the wrong way. From Jolyon Maugham today:
“We want to apologize for how the ‘Monster’ campaign has been received by the trans community. We’ve heard you – and we’ve instructed our media partners to take the campaign down.
The ‘Monster’ campaign was commissioned from the preeminent public artist Martin Firrell, whose work evidences a long record of support for the LGBT+ community, to speak specifically to cis people about what it means to oppose trans people, rights, spaces and joy. The campaign tested very positively with cis allies and the team that worked on it included a number of trans people. The campaign was funded by a single donation and in its very brief existence has brought in at least one four figure donation.
We think it’s important that we speak both to the cis people, who we need to persuade, and the trans community, for whom ultimately we do this work. Later this month a project we funded for the trans community, the 86-metre Trans Unity Quilt, with two trans co-artistic directors, will be carried along the route of London Trans+ Pride and then at further events outside London.
All of this is true – but none of it matters if it damages the trust we enjoy with the trans community and it has. So it will be taken down today – and I repeat my apology, on Good Law Project’s behalf, to those the campaign has upset. We remain, as ever, extraordinarily grateful to the many members of the trans community who continue to support our work for the community.”
Chalk that up as another loss…
Statement by Paul Dacre, Editor-in-Chief of Associated Newspapers Limited, following Harry’s loss in court today:
“Prince Harry wrote a sad book which boasted about his killing of 25 Taliban, his drug-taking and, in cringe-making detail, how he lost his virginity. There isn’t a laundry in the cosmos big enough to wash all the dirty linen he has aired about his own family. For him, to complain about HIS privacy being invaded takes, not just the biscuit, but the whole tin. Poor Harry. I feel sorry for the way a confused and angry young man has been drawn into this case. The bitter irony is that his mother, Diana, liked the Mail. We were her paper. We took her side in her acrimonious break up with Charles. She and I would speak and meet. The Mail’s superb royal reporter was her friend and confidante. The truth is that this trumped-up action – which has cost well over £50 million and wasted a huge amount of valuable court time – should never have been brought to trial. That it did, raises profoundly disturbing questions about the conduct of elements of the legal profession. Today’s verdict is not just a victory for Associated’s magnificent journalists – several of whom have had a terrible toll imposed on their health and lives – but a free press generally. Make no mistake. This was a conspiracy, supported by Hacked Off, to destroy a paper. Financed by the orgy-loving, racist Max Mosley and involving the actor Hugh Grant, it was also a sinister bid to resuscitate Leveson Two and impose statutory regulation on the press which, even now, is rearing its ugly head in Labour’s Media Green Paper.”