PORN IDENTITY Police investigating ‘hate crime’ after transgender woman turned down for porn role ‘because she has a penis’
Phoebe Cooke
18 Oct 2019, 11:01Updated: 19 Oct 2019, 3:27
COPS are investigating a "hate crime" after a transgender woman was turned down for a porn role "because she has a penis".
Ria Cooper, 25, who became Britain's youngest trans person when she transitioned 10 years ago, says an anonymous photographer messaged her saying he wanted them to have sex on camera and sell the resulting porno.
Ria Cooper has accused a photographer of 'transphobic comments'
Ria Cooper has accused a photographer of 'transphobic comments'Credit: SWNS:South West News Service
Ria Cooper says she's speaking out to help other transgender people suffering abuse
Ria Cooper says she's speaking out to help other transgender people suffering abuseCredit: SWNS:South West News Service
But when he found out Ria still has male reproductive organs he immediately retracted the offer.
In messages exchanged over WhatsApp, the photographer claimed he couldn't work with her because "she has a c***".
'TRANSPHOBIC'
Ria has hit out at the "transphobic behaviour" and says she's being unfairly discriminated against in her modelling career.
The woman from Hull, East Yorks., has reported the comments to Humberside Police, which is investigating the incident as a hate crime.
She previously appeared on This Morning, when she discussed how she began transitioning at 15.
Ria, who was assigned male at birth, struggled with how the hormones she was prescribed changed her, and shortly after her 18th birthday decided to live as a man.
The qualified beauty therapist has now transitioned to a woman, and has opened a hair and beauty salon to help other transgender people.
Ria says the man got in touch with her after she released her new glamour modelling portfolio online.
He apparently told her the industry was like a "family" and vowed to help her make her way to the top of it.
Then the photographer told Ria he had just been informed by a friend that she is transgender, before saying "Playboy won't accept that".
He then cut all contact with Ria, who says her social media profiles clearly state she is a "ladyboy".
Ria has described the comments as "discriminatory" and "appalling", comparing the abuse to that of a racist.
She said: "When I first changed I found it really scary and very confusing.
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