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Billed as a transgender Big Brother, Genderquake is a 2-part reality-documentary series in which 11 young strangers participate a house for 7 days. Bickering, romance, and alcohol-fuelled fumblings ensue. The majority of the 11 housemates are transgender, with both binary and genderqueer identities represented, but there are cisgender (non-transgender) housemates too, such as year-old Tom from Barnsley, for whom gender is terribly simple: ‘You’ve either got a penis or you’ve got a vagina’. The aim of the illustrate is to stimulate dialogue about gender identity in the 21^st century by putting together people with a variety of experiences and viewpoints around gender. But does it work?

My initial reaction when I heard about Genderquake was revulsion. Anyone familiar with the history of transsexual representation in the media will know that it is frequently exploitative and damaging. In fact, there’s even a word for the media exploitation of trans people &#; ‘transploitation’. A reality show that uses trans identities as a social experiment? Major alarm