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Sadly the challenges some of our community face alone are occasionally too much.
http://news.sky.com/story/1068118/sex-change-teacher-lucy-meadows-found-dead
Another reason to be very very grateful to Erin for the community she has nurtured here and equally firmly espouse 'Rule One'.
"No man is an Island...."
RIP Lucy
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Sad news
That is very sad to read and not helped because of the poor standard of reporting leading with the line "A male primary school teacher who began a new term as a woman has been found dead". :-(
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
I hope this
is a natural death, but just the headlines demean the person concerned, as if years of helping educate young minds is less important than having a sex change. I suspect that if I did something really outstanding, my life would still be summed up with the words 'sex change' prominent in the title.
Age thirty two - that's younger than my daughter, poor kid.
Angharad
Hounded by a free press
Sadly Angharad it appears not. Whilst there has been no formal announcement suspicion is growing that she took her own life.
The recent hounding of Miss Meadows by the press and the public comments of Richard Littlejohn may well have been strong contributory factors
Persephone
Non sum qualis eram
So sad! :(
My heart cries for her students. RIP Lucy, you will be missed.
May Your Light Forever Shine
An article in the Guardian
Suggests that the Dail Wail hounded her and some creep called Littlejohn wrote an article based on the opinions of bigots.
Whatever happened, it's very sad that bigots never seem to do themselves any harm.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/22/lucy-meadows-p...
Angharad