Hong Kong - Television watchdogs were investigating after transgender people were described as "human monsters" in a Chinese language television programme, a media report said Sunday. The expression "yan yiu," which translates as "human monster," was used 23 times during a report on transgender people in Thailand broadcast by the ATV television station, the South China Morning Post said. The expression also appeared in subtitles 28 times in the segment which lasted 11 minutes and 45 seconds. Sam Winter, a professor at the University of Hong Kong's faculty of education and also director of Transgender ASIA Research Centre, said the use of the expression would damage Hong Kong's reputation as a cosmopolitan city. He filed a complaint with the Broadcasting Authority and asked the television station and producers of the programme...
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