The latest report looked at the television series that premiered from June 1, 2025, to May 31, 2026.
It revealed that zero transgender characters will return to TV next year, and that representation of LGBTQ characters of colour is at an eight-year low.
369 LGBTQ+ characters in total were counted on scripted primetime broadcast, cable and streaming original series. That is a decrease of 120 characters (25%) from the 489 counted the previous season.
161 of the 369 (44$) are characters of colour. An eight-year low and a decrease from 51% of characters of colour the previous year. None of the 369 characters lived with HIV.
2% of the 369 were trans characters; that’s a total of 7, six women and one man.
The previous year, the count was 33. Of these seven characters, none are returning to TV next year.
Respectfully trans people don’t even make up to 1% of the population, so any media representation over that is already OVER REPRESENTATION
I know you’re just a troll but I can’t help but bring up the fact that there’s a fuckload of cop shows out there despite there being less cops than there are transgender people and I’ve yet to hear anyone complain that cops are being overrepresented.
I’ve never viewed it as trying to accurately represent a minority group by percentage of the population, but more as representing their existence generally.
If a group of people is being widely misunderstood and targeted by hate, providing representation for them is valuable. It doesn’t matter if it’s “over-representation” in some pure mathematical sense.
Which, for the record, it’s not. According to the article:
I don’t know how many characters one would count across all those media types, so I can’t say precisely what tiny percentage this would amount to, but obviously 7 characters across the board is not over-representation in any sense.