I launched http://transphobic.media/ today, a site to let you know if a movie or television show features any transphobia.
It was borne out of me getting really tired of watching a show to relax, only to have a character spit out a joke that mocks trans people. It happens regularly.
I had planned to do this for a while, but the turning point was a few weeks ago when I was watching La Mante (The Mantis). The serial killer who is the namesake of the show turns out to be a trans woman, or rather a horrible caricature of one with some of the most transphobic dialog I’ve ever heard. As in 20% of all representation in television shows since 2002, the trans character was cast as a killer/villain.
I started reviewing sources to put together a database. I chose to restrict the titles to anything that appeared in IMDB, so that I could then be able to leverage data on IMDB for later data analysis. Then I integrated it into a website, which took me a few days to do. The site was done using NodeJs, React, Bootstrap, FontAwesome, and Google Fonts. You can download the source code for it here.
If you have any suggestions for titles to add to the database or corrections to existing ones, please do so on the Issues page.