CBS' CSI continues its abuse of the transgendered

CSI creator Anthony Zuiker

Nick Adams, GLAAD's Associate Director of Communications reports in The Advocate the latest smear of CSI against transgendered people.
     MO: lurid disinforma­tion basted with con­tempt. As of 12/1/2012, 703 original episodes of the three series in the CSI franchise have aired. Including syndication, CSI and its two spinoffs have earned $6 billion, making creater Anthony Zuiker a multimillionaire many times over.

Wednesday night's episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, entitled "Strip Maul," contained the latest in the show's long history of offensive and defamatory portrayals of transgender people.
     The episode begins with the police walking up and down the Fremont Street area of Las Vegas, arresting several people all of whom are intended to be seen by the show's viewers as freaks and weirdos.  In fact, one of the officers says, "That's why I'm here. You deal with the whack jobs [emphasis added] and I do the evidence collecting."  Another officer says while looking at the people arrested, "Full moon tonight."
     ...If this were a one-time occurrence on CSI, this episode would still be an exploitative, sensationalistic, defamatory portrayal of a transgender person. However, as GLAAD recently noted in its report about transgender characters on television over the past 10 years, CSI has repeatedly foisted these type of portrayals upon the American public.
     ...It's possible for police procedurals to tell transgender stories in a way that's fair, accurate and inclusive.  In fact, the CBS show Cold Case received six GLAAD Media Award nominations, two of them for episodes that included transgender characters, "Boy Crazy" and "Daniela."

Below: Brad Chapin, an Omaha PFLAG volunteer, explains (at the 11:29 mark) how he has had to try to repair the damage inflicted on transgendered kids; damage exacerbated by wealthy, cynical and exploitively pandering entertainment czars like Zuiker, who prefer to exhibit transgendered characters as twisted, dangerous perps rather than the victims they are far more likely to be in real life.