Janet Mock returned to Piers Morgan’s show to explain to him what was so offensive about the way his show framed the interview with her. Mr Morgan calls himself an ally to trans* people and their issues, but like many doesn’t really understand them. I don’t want to accuse Morgan and his production team of malice, but they do show an ignorant clinging to a false, rigid gender binary that many in society show.

I myself was fairly ignorant on this topic until a few years ago. I didn’t receive the education that broadened my view purely through academic gender studies (that did help) but through activists and writers like Janet Mock or through (as silly it might sound to people who still prioritize old-fashioned established media) the network of blogs, tumblrs I discovered following links on the Internet.

I hope the publicity surrounding Janet Mock, her book, and these interviews with Piers Morgan will be a starting point for more people to educate themselves on this topic and shake of their ignorance.

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The interview was of course followed by a panel featuring Mr. Morgan and 3 cis-people, only one of whom – Marc Lamont Hill – understood even the basics. So the panel quickly turned problematic. Amy Holmes claimed that the problem Ms. Mock has is “semantic.” In Ben Fergueson the panel also had the ubiquitous shouty conservative, who framed Ms. Mock being transgender as mental illness and as a ploy to sell books, referencing the weird scientists and doctors that always seem to be there to support the claimed reality shouty conservative always shouts about.