A large number of complaints have now been sent to Ofcom about the episode of Moving Wallpaper broadcast on March 20. There have been 60 complaints at least and apparently more on the way. This compares to 8 complaints received about the Moyles homophobia affair.

This episode was full of gratuitous transphobia; Some of the examples of transphobia in this programme include:

1. Jonathan refers to how he wants a masculine new writer on the team. This is deliberate foreshadowing, given that it will shortly turn out that the writer is in fact a trans woman. This means that the trans status of Georgina is established as

In Kudos' Life on Mars, there is rampant sexism and racism, but it is challenged by the lead characters who have come from the present into this '70s setting. The main problem with this anti-transsexual episode of Moving Wallpaper is that it contains no such challenge. Two of the women initially speak up for Georgina against the banter (which would be illegal in real life) of the other writers, but they have joined the transphobic writers by the time Georgina is being, illegally, dismissed. The comedy, which was not at all funny unless you engoy laughing at trannies, is not as ITV claims an attempt to show up Jonathan's bigotry, as he at one stage is lecturing the backward striking writers. This was an appalling example of transphobic writing and an apology is due.
Miss Mercia McMahon
formerly known as Rev Dr Mark Walker