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Opinion: The Burchill controversy – a mixed blessing for the trans community

I have followed recent mainstream media events unfolding around the transgender community with a mixture of excitement, anxiety and sadness.

Excitement, because it is rare that trans issues get coverage that isn’t designed to portray us as perpetrators of some hideous evil. Even though the stories started with biased coverage in the Guardian about a doctor under investigation by the General Medical Council, it turned into something more positive when the #TransDocFail hashtag lead to LibDem Councillor Sarah Brown discussing the issue on BBC Radio. Even the continuation of bad reporting had a silver lining, when Julie Burchill’s

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  • User AvatarJedibeeftrix 22nd May - 8:39pm
    @ malcolm - no. I live in hope, that despite the lack of any attempt to refute the above, that one day common sense will...
  • User AvatarEddie Sammon 22nd May - 8:38pm
    Very good point Martin. Unfortunately many "liberals" prefer kneejerk reactions towards "liberal" principles instead, whilst forgetting about security. Worst still, anyone who disagrees would probably...
  • User AvatarEddie Sammon 22nd May - 8:31pm
    Welcome :).
  • User AvatarEddie Sammon 22nd May - 8:29pm
    Chris, there have been loads of examples, even on this comment section where the word is used. Just because they don't put the word "you"...
  • User AvatarTom Wilde 22nd May - 8:23pm
    This is a very perceptive article, and it is right about pretty much everything. Just because tiny irrelevant fringe party UKIP are currently polling around...