40-576: TMW may refer to: Trans Media Watch , a British campaign group that aims to ensure that trans and intersex people are treated with accuracy, dignity and respect by media organisations in the UK Tullo Marshall Warren , a creative communications agency based in London TMW Systems , a developer of enterprise management software for the surface transportation services industry with offices in
80-574: A hoax email warning about an apparent date rape drug called Progesterex . Featherstone submitted a written question to the Labour Government Minister enquiring as to "what assessment he has made of the use of Progesterex in cases of date rape". Paul Goggins 's reply to the House of Commons was that Progesterex did not exist: "It has been the subject of a hoax e-mail", he answered. The hoax first originated in 1999. Featherstone criticised
120-538: A complaint with the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), for discriminatory remarks and violations of privacy published by The Sun in 2014. The complaint was a response to disparaging remarks made by journalist Rod Liddle at the expense of Emily Brothers , a transgender politician who was standing for election as a member of parliament for the Sutton and Cheam constituency . After
160-419: A move that would allow positive discrimination which is primarily aimed at addressing female under-representation in the workforce. It will also mean that a manager will be able lawfully to hire a black man over a white man, a homosexual man over a heterosexual man, if they have the same skill set. Featherstone, denied the plans were about " political correctness , or red tape , or quotas " and would "help make
200-595: A poll on the Liberal Democrat Voice website, she ruled herself out, stating that, of the other people in the poll, she would back Brian Paddick . Featherstone first contested the Hornsey and Wood Green seat at the 1997 general election where she finished in third place some 25,998 votes behind the winner Barbara Roche . She again fought Hornsey and Wood Green at the 2001 general election , moving into second place and reducing Roche's majority to 10,614. In one of
240-570: A process of adjudication, the IPSO upheld the complaint, and ruled that Mr Liddle and The Sun were in breach of the Editors' Code of Practice. The TMW did not represent Ms Brothers in their complaint, but raised the issue as a "representative group" affected by Mr Liddle's implications. In September 2011, Trans Media Watch and On Road Media launched the Trans Media Action initiative, with support from
280-490: A result. Featherstone has expressed intentions to ban topless models from appearing on The Sun newspaper's Page 3 , stating "I would love to take on Page 3 ". In April 2007, an employee in Featherstone's office over-ordered stationery reportedly worth over £22,000 in one month. On being alerted to the over-ordering, Featherstone returned all of the items involved. In a subsequent interview when challenged on
320-435: A signatory, acknowledging the killing of eminent human rights lawyer and trans woman Sonia Burgess , and its subsequent prejudicial media coverage, as stimulus to do so. The Observer newspaper also took notice of TMW due to Burgess' death, saying there is a "need for sensitivity and respect" when dealing with transgender stories. Paris Lees , a British transgender journalist, worked with Trans Media Watch to persuade
360-744: A table eating red velvet cupcakes and talking out the world's problems rather than firing off phallic-shaped nuclear weapons is a complete fallacy". On 5 September 2012 she was confirmed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for International Development . Speaking at the Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow in September 2013, she supported Liberal Democrat policy to prosecute those responsible for cases where girls are sent abroad to have female genital mutilation carried out, or where it
400-646: Is carried out in the UK. In November 2014, she was promoted to Minister of State for Crime Prevention going back to the Home office. Featherstone wrote a book, Equal Ever After , describing the details of work to establish legal same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom and her role in the process. In 2006, Featherstone was shortlisted in the "Rising Stars" category of the Channel 4 political awards, but did not win. Featherstone
440-510: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Trans Media Watch Trans Media Watch ( TMW ) is a British charity founded in 2009 to improve media coverage of transgender and intersex issues. By improving media coverage, TMW strives to "foster social acceptance and civil recognition for trans persons", and to prevent the "material consequences" of misrepresentation. TMW also publishes recommendations for trans people interacting with
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#1732851289459480-480: The BBC and Channel 4. Trans Media Action comprised a series of workshops and other initiatives designed to facilitate understanding between transgender people and journalists. Trans Media Action is now known as All About Trans. Lynne Featherstone Lynne Choona Featherstone, Baroness Featherstone , PC ( née Ryness ; born 20 December 1951) is a British politician, businesswoman and Liberal Democrat member of
520-659: The Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition in 2010 she was appointed as a Minister in the Home Office as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Criminal Information and Equalities . Featherstone caused waves by pre-announcing her appointment prior to the official announcement in the expectation of forcing compromises from the Tories regarding her policy "aims", despite Home Secretary Theresa May being noted for not favouring homosexual equality. In December 2010, Featherstone introduced
560-552: The Dissolution Peerages List 2015 . She was created Baroness Featherstone , of Highgate in the London Borough of Haringey on 20 October. Under the Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition in 2010 she was appointed as a Home Office Minister with responsibility for criminal information and equalities, before being promoted, in 2012, to Minister with responsibility for International Development. Previously she
600-559: The British press." In February 2012, a TMW representative gave evidence in person. In 2012, Trans Media Watch hosted a journalism and broadcasting conference at the University of London Union . The event, called Trans Media Watch European Conference 2012, took place on 7 October 2012, and was open to non-professionals so that transgender and intersex people could learn about the British and European media. In May 2015, Trans Media Watch filed
640-535: The Home Office and was passed through the Commons despite Conservative backbench MP resistance. She was given a score of 93% in favour of lesbian, gay and bisexual equality by Stonewall . In the 2015 general election , she lost her seat to Labour 's Catherine West . Following the death of her constituent, 17-month-old Peter Connelly , Haringey Council initiated an internal audit Serious case review (SCR). Although
680-569: The Home Office as Minister of State in November 2014. Featherstone is a patron of Humanists UK . Featherstone was born and brought up in North London , and educated at Highgate Primary School , the independent South Hampstead High School (then a direct grant grammar school ) and gained a Diploma in Communication and Design at Oxford Polytechnic . Her family business started by her parents
720-566: The House of Lords . Prior to entering politics, Featherstone was a successful businesswoman owning and running a London design company. She was also a director of the Ryness chain of lighting and electrical shops. A Member of the London Assembly (MLA) from 2000 to 2005, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Hornsey and Wood Green between 2005 and 2015 , before being nominated for a peerage in
760-525: The Minister's response, stating "they need to do more to discover the unearthly monster who sends them out" and that "their cavalier attitude will not do". However, critics such as fellow Liberal Democrat James Graham castigated Featherstone's conduct in "criticising the Home Office for not having a response to made up drugs and made up crimes", stating "trivialising rape in this way without bothering to do basic research first doesn't help anybody". She came to
800-522: The UK feel about the media portrays them. The research concluded that humiliating and demeaning characterisations of trans people in the media play a significant role in encouraging societal prejudice and abuse towards the community. In March 2011, UK broadcaster Channel 4 became the inaugural signatory of TMW's memorandum of understanding (MoU), a document which calls for better media representation of trans people. In May 2011, Women in Journalism became
840-706: The United States and Canada Tallinn Music Week , a weeklong city festival held every spring in Tallinn, Estonia Tamworth Regional Airport , IATA airport code "TMW" Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title TMW . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TMW&oldid=1078732258 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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#1732851289459880-502: The actual report was completed months earlier, the Executive Summary of the report was released immediately after the resulting court case had completed. The full details of the report have been kept confidential. Featherstone had been particularly critical of Haringey Council , writing "I personally met with George Meehan and Ita O'Donovan – Haringey Council's Leader and Chief Executive – to raise with them three different cases, where
920-553: The attention of the national media in 2008 when she was criticised by Conservative Member of the London Assembly Brian Coleman for calling 999 (the UK's emergency number) when her boiler began making noises and sparking. Coleman referred to her as a " dizzy airhead ", Featherstone responded by calling his comments " sexist " and "political" in nature. A London Fire Brigade spokeswoman told BBC News : "If it's obvious that there has been an ongoing problem with
960-465: The boiler, then you can call a plumber . But if your boiler suddenly starts making strange noises in the middle of the night, call the fire brigade." In January 2013, she tweeted that John Mulholland , editor of The Observer , should have been sacked for publishing a "rant against the transgender community" in Julie Burchill 's column which she described as "bigoted vomit", receiving a backlash as
1000-464: The broadcaster to commit to removing all transphobic material from their content. She was working for Channel 4 at the time and was instrumental in getting the broadcaster to be a signatory. At the MoU launch, held at Channel 4's London headquarters, Lynne Featherstone , the junior Minister for Equality , said "Congratulations to Trans Media Watch for this brilliant initiative and to Channel 4 for being
1040-399: The first (hopefully of many) broadcasters to sign up." The signing was criticised by Channel 4’s disability editorial manager, Alison Walsh. Her concern was that the memorandum, which calls for positive, well-informed representation of transgender people in the media, was a form of media censorship. The chair of Trans Media Watch, Jennie Kermode responded by affirming that the purpose of
1080-679: The first three Liberal Democrats to be elected borough councillors . She became Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group (and thereby Opposition Leader) on the Council 1998–2003. Although she stood down from Haringey Council before the May 2006 elections , Featherstone influenced the 2006 local elections in Haringey where Labour 's majority was cut from 25 to 3, with 30 Labour Councillors elected to 27 Liberal Democrats. From 2000 until 2005, Featherstone
1120-539: The largest swings at the 2005 general election , Featherstone defeated Roche with a majority of 2,395 votes. She made her maiden speech in Parliament on 24 May 2005. She was appointed as a LibDem junior Home Affairs spokesperson by Charles Kennedy in 2005, and to the environment audit select committee . She was co-chair of Chris Huhne 's unsuccessful campaign to be leader of the Liberal Democrats following
1160-452: The matter Featherstone responded "If I wasn't replying to people and telling them what's happened about the casework they have brought to me, there would soon be howls of protest. You can judge my overall use of expenses by the Telegraph. They called me one of their "saints"." In May 2009, Featherstone was listed among the "saints" by The Daily Telegraph in the expenses scandal . Under
1200-491: The media. One impetus of the charity's creation was a 2009 episode of the comedy series Moving Wallpaper which featured transphobic jokes. One of the co-founders of TMW is Josephine Shaw, a longtime activist for trans rights. In April 2010, TMW published 'How Transgender People Experience the Media', which describes the findings of a study conducted between November 2009 and February 2010 to learn how transgender people in
1240-457: The memorandum is to provide a balanced and accurate coverage, and was not to discourage honest or challenging portrayals of transgender people. In December 2011, Trans Media Watch made a submission to the Leveson Inquiry into the "culture, practice and ethics of the press," in which it described the "unethical and often horrific and humiliating treatment of transgender and intersex people by
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1280-567: The pattern was in each case Haringey seeming to want to blame anyone who complained rather than to look at the complaint seriously. I was promised action – but despite repeated subsequent requests for news on progress – I was just stonewalled." In November 2008, at Prime Minister's Questions , Featherstone asked the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown , to order an enquiry into the Connelly case. In April 2006, one of Featherstone's researchers received
1320-506: The political spectrum and were considered particularly inappropriate given her role as a minister in charge of ending sexism . Conservative MP Priti Patel said: "these comments are really ill-thought out. As Equalities Minister she has got to be unbiased about the value that both men and women bring to decision-making." Elizabeth Day of The Observer newspaper was equally troubled by the remarks, writing "the notion that women are not as aggressive as men, that we would all just sit around
1360-582: The resignation of Kennedy in January 2006. In March, following the election of Menzies Campbell as party leader, she was promoted to number two in the Liberal Democrat home affairs team and made London spokesperson. In December 2006, she succeeded Susan Kramer as the Liberal Democrat Shadow International Development Secretary, and two months later was succeeded by Tom Brake as London spokesperson. In 2007, following
1400-445: The resignation of Sir Menzies Campbell , she again chaired Chris Huhne's leadership election campaign . On 20 December 2007 the new Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg , who defeated Chris Huhne , made her Youth and Equalities spokesperson. On 5 February 2013, Featherstone voted in favour in the House of Commons Second Reading vote on same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom , the bill which she spearheaded as Minister of State at
1440-494: The workplace fairer". In September 2011, Featherstone caused controversy by claiming men make "terrible decisions" when they are in charge. Speaking at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference Featherstone blamed men for the mess the world was in, and commentators drew parallels with similar comments by one of Featherstone's predecessors, Harriet Harman . Her comments attracted criticism from across
1480-568: Was Liberal Democrat spokesman for Youth and Equality issues, and chair of the Liberal Democrats technology board. As originator and architect of the same sex marriage law during the coalition, Featherstone launched the consultation by the UK Government on introducing same-sex marriage and was the first politician to take part in the Out4Marriage campaign, gaining a special Ben and Jerry's ice cream tub and flavour Lynne Honeycomb and returned to
1520-615: Was a Member of the London Assembly ; during this time, she was Chair of the London Assembly Transport Committee. She was also a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority for all five years she was on the London Assembly. She was replaced as MLA by Geoff Pope . Featherstone was promoted by some as a potential Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London in the 2008 election . In response to
1560-843: Was nominated for the Stonewall Politician of the Year Award in both 2009 and 2012 for her work to support equality for lesbian, gay and bisexual people. She was awarded Stonewall Politician of the Year (jointly), Attitude Magazine Politician of the Year and PinkNews Ally of the Year for her initiative on same-sex marriage and work on LGBT rights. She ranked 26 out of 50 on the Top 50 Lib Dems of 2020 list. In 1982, she married Stephen Featherstone in Haringey. Together they have two children. The couple divorced in 1996. Featherstone lives in Highgate , London. She
1600-644: Was the Ryness chain of lighting and electrical shops in London . The business was sold over a decade ago. Prior to entering politics, Featherstone was a successful businesswoman running the Ryness chain of lighting and electrical shops in London and owning and running a London design company. In 1998, Featherstone was elected a Councillor for the London Borough of Haringey representing Muswell Hill Ward . She and her two colleagues (June Andersen and Julia Glenn) were
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