This morning's Observer had an article by the Readers' Editor referring to comments received on an article about David/Sonia Burgess. Burgess, a civil rights lawyer, was allegedly murdered by being pushed under a London Underground train last year and a trial is shortly to take place. The comments were concerned with how the paper referred to to her/him. It was quite difficult because sometimes Burgess lived as a male (David) or female (Sonia) and had friends in each persona but, apparently, few in both.
The readers' editor on... reporting transgender issues
I thin you may find both the article and the comments interesting. I think there's a link to to the article on the same page and that's also worth a read, I think.
Robi
Comments
The Elizabeth Day article...
The extraordinary life and death of David Burgess
The original obituary
It's somewhat impressive the The Guardian has a specific category on its website for TG issues (here) - and they have a correspondent (Juliet Jacques) writing fortnightly columns about her transition (Starting here).
There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't...
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
Not all the comments
were crtical, I actually wrote to the Observer congratulating the sensitivity of the article, they didn't however use my letter. Nothing new there then!
Angharad
Angharad
You should have ...
... signed it 'Keith Flett'. A sure way to get a letter printed ;) He gets one printed at least once a fortnight.
I thought the article was fine, too. They were between a rock and a hard place because Burgess lived a dual life both of which seem to be quite remarkable. A dreadful murder in my view; they all are, of course, but this seems particularly sad.
Robi
Comments
I have one up on the article linked....
Edit: and it has just been badly misread! Make that two comments.
An edit feature ....
... is sadly lacking on the CiF section of the Guardian/Observer site as is an easy quote facility and it leads to misunderstandings. I usually copy and paste the comment I'm quoting and italicise it so there's no confusion between my comments and the original. Bit of a chore but it seems to work.
Robi