‘Gaslighting’: Victorian government faces backlash over new equality campaign ad

GT Communications founder Gemma Tognini has hit out at the Victorian government's campaign ‘The Unsaid Says A Lot’.

The 60-second ad depicts multiple scenarios where trans or gender-diverse people are made to feel either excluded or welcomed and accepted.

“It shows a woman in a lift with a trans person and she feels uncomfortable and the woman leaves the lift and the inference of that is, oh you being really mean, your being really mean you need to stay in the lift with that person,” Ms Tognini told Sky News host Chris Kenny.

‘Gaslighting’: Victorian government faces backlash over new equality campaign ad

“The Victorian government should be ashamed of itself because you are gaslighting women to say that your feelings are not valid because you need to make a cohort of people feel okay.

“If a woman is in any situation with any other person of any other iteration and she feels unsafe that is her prerogative.”