Yet again BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyle’s shows his lack of respect for LGBT communities, this time in a segment of his daily breakfast show called ‘Tranny Rachel’

We have written to the BBC to express our anger at Moyles and urge you to do the same.

Feel free to use the letter below as a model.

BBC Complaints,

PO Box 1922,

Glasgow G2 3WT

To whom it may concern,

RE: Chris Moyle’s Radio One Podcast - ‘ Tranny Rachel’

We are writing to express our anger upon hearing a recent podcast by BBC Radio One DJ Chris Moyles, in which he spent approximately four minutes mocking Trans people in a segment called ‘Tranny Rachel’. After the decision of the BBC board of Directors not to sanction BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles for the use of the word Gay as a derogatory term, it is with a deep sense of disappointment that yet again Moyles uses offensive and derogatory language aimed against the LGBT community to boost his ratings. The BBC as a public service broadcaster should now sanction Mr Moyles and ensure a breakfast show free from deeply offensive language.

Trans people have the right to live lives free from discrimination and harassment like any other citizen in the United Kingdom, it is of great displeasure that an organization like the BBC should fund, from public money, a radio show which uses offensive stereotyping to dehumanize and humiliate Trans people.

During the interview Mr Moyles uses completely inappropriate language:-

Trans Status

In the mock interview, Moyle’s questions the character Tranny Rachel (or Tranny Rach (TR), as Moyles likes to put it) about her ‘tranny status’, asking “many people want to know if you’re from Transylvania, if you are a transsexual, or if you’re a Transport Minister…Can you explain finally what tranny you are?” To which Tranny Rachel responds “I’ll be whatever you want me to be…I like to see myself as a cloak dagger person, try and work it out for yourself”

Gender expression:

Constantly flips between calling TR ‘Mr’ and ‘her’

“You’re very butch today Tranny Rach” “am I oh (laughs)” “do you have days when you feel butch and manly and other days you feel a bit girly and feminine” “oh it depends what day it is really” proceeds to ask about different days of the week, to which he gets different responses “depending on the mood I’m in”

Are you a “man or woman?” “yes”

Physical Appearance:

Discuss how TR likes to “lie out…spread myself about” sunbathing naked on a Sunday.

Moyles then states he believes Tranny Rach to be “in my mind half man half woman…one big mistake.” When they go on to talk about TR naked he states “it was awful…like watching play doe in a washing machine…like a baddy from Dr Who made out of carrots and tires.”

“a hairy chest…hairier than Dave’s legs”

asks if she has “girly bits or boy bits” “no comment”

asks to put up naked pictures of her “amazing body” and proceeds to mocks her “voluptuous curves”

“I don’t really want to look at you…ergh I’d rather not, please”

Worklife:

“are you a man or woman in work?” a truck driver and a beauty therapist

Relationships

“what’s you marital status?”

To which TR responds she has “a few on the boil at the moment”

Then questions her sexuality “straight or gay” “yes”

The BBC website proudly publicises your Chairman’s claim that, "The real test of any organisation is how it deals with complaints from the public." Given the rather unsatisfactory manner in which the BBC dealt with complaints surrounding Chris Moyle’s recent homophobic use of the term ‘gay’ on his radio show I hope the corporation will take very seriously this new attack on the LGBT community and Trans people across the UK.

Yours sincerely

For and on behalf of the NUS LGBT Campaign

Scott Cuthbertson

NUS LGBT Officer

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