The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a TV advertisement by Irish bookmaker Paddy Power which featured transgender people in a promotion ahead of Ladies’ Day at the Cheltenham Festival earlier this year.
The ad was broadcast in February, receiving 92 complaints and had already been pulled by broadcasters including Channel 4 and Sky.
Referring to a comment made on Facebook, the ad showed various shots of Cheltenham racecourse while a voice-over [...]
