On Sunday 3 September 2023, 7NEWS ran a Spotlight segment on de-transitioning. Within the segment they shared videos and images of transgender and non binary people without their consent, wrongfully implying that they regret transitioning.

I was horrified to find one of my post top-surgery videos (expressing how much better my life is because of surgery) included in this segment without my consent.

This is not only unethical but immensely harmful to the trans and gender diverse community.

Please sign and share our petition calling on Channel 7 to remove this harmful segment and apologise to everyone who's images/ videos were shared without consent. We are also calling on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to stop amplifying this harmful content on their platforms.

If this program remains online it will support the bigoted systemic inequality that already exists for the Trans and Gender Diverse Community within Australia. It will continue to harm the mental health of the transgender, non-binary and queer people it featured, as well as those in the community. It will continue a lie about the individuals who were featured, without consent, by insinuating that they regret their decision to have transitioned or had gender affirming surgery. It will continue the lie that transitioning is harmful and something to be regretted – when multiple studies from around the word have revealed that less than 1% of gender non conforming individuals regret gender affirming healthcare.

Advertised as “Thousands of kids are doing it” and “Is a generation being brainwashed”, this inhumane use of trans and queer joy has stolen a fundamental right to exist safely in our country. Channel 7 owes our community the basic duty of care to be able to monitor and remove the hateful, transphobic comments that are littered on every platform under their story. Media platforms need to review their editorial policy.

We need to act now:

• Channel 7 needs to be held accountable for this dehumanising, untrue, transphobic journalism created with limited supporting statistical evidence.
• The people who were featured without consent deserve compensation.
• Channel 7 owes the Gender Diverse Community a sincere apology and a public review of their editorial processes to ensure this never happens again.
• The program needs to be removed from all platforms, 7 Plus and social media accounts including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Sign this petition to support trans, non-binary, queer and gender diverse people. Gender affirming healthcare is life saving healthcare.