27-03-2013, 09:05 PM
I did not know Lucy Meadows personally, but several of my friends did - and by friends I mean people who come to my house rather than someone I met on a forum somewhere. People I talk to everyday or at least every week. People whose word I trust.
Lucy was transitioning well. Many parents were supportive of her. The school was supportive of her. Things were going as smoothly as they can do in the early stages of transition.
Then the press decided it was a good story and it turned her life into a living hell. She just wanted an ordinary life and trans-teachers are not that uncommon, there are enough of them (and I know one personally) to prove that you can transition on the job and that parents and teachers have no problem.
The reason that the press in this country are on the verge of regulation is because they have shown themselves over and over again to be out of control. Reporters and those they dealt with are now going to jail for criminal acts. That is how bad it has got. That is why we have just had a huge investigation into the excesses of the press and that investigation barely touched on trans issues at all.
Lucy did nothing illegal - why should she have left her job? She was just living. Breathing, eating, sleeping, working, helping - you know, being a decent person. Nothing criminal unlike many in The Press who are now incarcerated at Her Majesty's Pleasure.
Freedom to offend is one thing, but the freedom to make someone's life a living hell? What happened to responsibility? What happened to decency? What happened to actually giving a d*mn about whether someone in a very-high risk group might be pushed over the edge?
I did sign the petition. The firing of Littlejohn would be a purely symbolic act showing that some remorse might actually exist. In reality he is probably not an employee and so cannot be 'fired' but they certainly could stop using his services.
Lucy was transitioning well. Many parents were supportive of her. The school was supportive of her. Things were going as smoothly as they can do in the early stages of transition.
Then the press decided it was a good story and it turned her life into a living hell. She just wanted an ordinary life and trans-teachers are not that uncommon, there are enough of them (and I know one personally) to prove that you can transition on the job and that parents and teachers have no problem.
The reason that the press in this country are on the verge of regulation is because they have shown themselves over and over again to be out of control. Reporters and those they dealt with are now going to jail for criminal acts. That is how bad it has got. That is why we have just had a huge investigation into the excesses of the press and that investigation barely touched on trans issues at all.
Lucy did nothing illegal - why should she have left her job? She was just living. Breathing, eating, sleeping, working, helping - you know, being a decent person. Nothing criminal unlike many in The Press who are now incarcerated at Her Majesty's Pleasure.
Freedom to offend is one thing, but the freedom to make someone's life a living hell? What happened to responsibility? What happened to decency? What happened to actually giving a d*mn about whether someone in a very-high risk group might be pushed over the edge?
I did sign the petition. The firing of Littlejohn would be a purely symbolic act showing that some remorse might actually exist. In reality he is probably not an employee and so cannot be 'fired' but they certainly could stop using his services.