An article that appeared in this morning's Observer might be of interest. I read it in the 'real' edition but it was hard to find in the on-line version but here it is:
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/25/transgender-c...
Robi
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So-called journalists
I have said many, many times that I hate and despise the Mail, and this is an excellent example of the reasons. It carries all the usual homophobia and other bigotry that that tabloid is soaked in.
It should be noted that the rag in question espouses a claim that taxpayers' money should be spent wisely and not wasted on projects that could be better done by private finance, which translates as allowing friends of the rag's owners to make an excessive profit. It should also be noted that the owners and editor of said rag have an arrangement called 'non-domiciled' in which they pay no direct taxes in the UK.
Vermin.
but ...
... this is an Observer article. Whilst I agree completely with your views on the Daily Mail your reply implies this article isn't a sympathetic one which, unless this morning's coffee was far too strong and dulled my memory, it is.
Robi
PS
In the olden days back in the 1950s we took the Mail, or at least my dad did (when I left home to work away at 17 in 1957 I couldn't afford to buy lunch let alone buy a newspaper :) ). It was a much different publication than it is now. For a start, the Flook cartoon strip by Wally Fowkes aided and abetted by much-loved jazz musician Humph Littleton was quite subversive. Sad really.
Sorry, Robi
..but the article is written mainly in reply to the Mail on Sunday's article, which is almost as poisonous as the comments it has attracted. That article is linked from the Observer article in the body of the text.
The Mail even wheel out the odious Victoria Gillick as an 'expert'.
I shared this on Facebook
Too painful for me to read the whole article ...
Now people that know me, please do not come to Facebook and try to have a big discussion on the subject there. Sharing the article is about as gutsy as I get.
I knew I was a girl at 4, and my Mother had raised me from birth as a girl, and I think she did that because she could sense my female spirit all along. I wish I could ask her about it now.
Like so many of us, I had to wait until I was late in life to try to live it, and for most of us the cost is devastation in our lives.
It would be like singing to the choir to say more.
Much peace
Gwendolyn
For confused Americans...
The Observer is the Sunday newspaper put out by the Guardian and they share a lot of editorial staff. Both are published and distributed pretty much throughout the UK. They are considered to be politically liberal. The Mail is another British national newspaper, a tabloid of the overly screaming-type. America has no really close equivalent of either paper in print but you can find near equivalents in broadcasting and on the internet. Think of the Guardian/Observer as similar in editorial outlook to NPR and the Huffington Post. Where the Mail is something like Fox News and most of the rest of talk radio outside NPR. That's really not that close of a description but you might get the idea.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Thanks
I was having a hard time understanding. Of course, my car radio is permanently set to NPR. When I want balance I watch John and Stephen.
I agree with Robin that the article seems measured and understanding.
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
An enlightened parental response
to an outrageous article.
I was informed recently by a colleague of a school girl in a local school who started life as a boy and the parents are having problems coming to terms with their child's need. Perhaps part of the problem is some of us act as if we own our children until they leave home and do their own thing, and others are scared for the child as well as themselves.
Until the great unwashed learn to accept transgender people, full stop, this sort of abuse by tabloid media is going to continue only now they don't target the individual, they hit the resources they need. I wouldn't even use the Daily Mail to line the cat's litter tray.
Angharad