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Reporting on LGBTQ+ issues, particularly stories affecting the trans and non-binary community, can prove difficult for journalists, in fear of backlash should they get it wrong.

With trans and non-binary people often subject to sensationalism and demonisation in the press, transgender writer Lewis Raven Wallace shares five tips for covering those communities, in this article for Columbia Journalism Review.

Wallace stressed the importance of making sure journalists get the pronouns correct for the people they interview and report on.

"Pronouns are a big deal to trans and non-binary people, because animosity toward our identities writ large. Calling someone by a given word is not a struggle unless you make it one - it's basic etiquette."

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