Media Matters has released a report looking at how national news outlets cover transgender issues, and there is plenty of room for improvement.

The media watchdog examined how often the major cable and broadcast networks reported on transgender topics, and which stories they chose to focus on, during the first two months of 2015. While violence against transgender women of color reached “unprecedented levels” this year, all networks failed to cover the seven transgender women murdered in January and February—save for a brief mention on CNN.

MSNBC came out on top overall. It had the most stories on the topic, invited actual transgender guests on programs discussing trans issues, and had the biggest racial diversity of said guests—though a third of this coverage was on “Ronan Farrow Daily,” which was cancelled in February.

CNN also did a good job of covering transgender news in terms of airtime, but a whopping 82 percent of CNN’s trans-related stories covered Bruce Jenner’s alleged transition. Fox News spent 44 percent of its time devoted to trans issues attacking CUNY’s gender-neutral bathroom policy.

Ultimately, the report shows that all outlets could do a better, and more nuanced, job going forward.

“Cable, broadcast and Spanish-language news networks largely ignored an ‘epidemic of deadly violence’ against the transgender community in the first two months of 2015, despite devoting coverage to various transgender stories,” the report reads. “When networks discussed transgender issues, they often failed to include the voices of transgender individuals, especially transgender women of color.”



Coverage of issues (in minutes) across the major broadcast and cable networks.

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