Mail, Telegraph, Sun, Mirror and Record admit wrong to mention transgender statu

[Carol2000]

Six national newspapers have acknowledged it was not relevant to state that a Cambridge academic who was attacked by a charging stag was transgender.

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Caroline

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Mail, Telegraph, Sun, Mirror and Record admit wrong to mention transgender status of stag attack victim

William Turvill 09 May 2014

Six national newspapers have acknowledged it was not relevant to state that a Cambridge academic who was attacked by a charging stag was transgender.

Dr Kate Stone was charged by the cornered animal, which gored her in the neck and left her in a coma and fighting for her life, in Scotland on New Year's Eve.

Most national newspapers in England and Scotland reported on the incident, and six – the Daily Record, Daily Mirror, The Sun and Scottish Sun, The Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail – highlighted her transgender status.

Headlines included "Deer spears sex-swap Kate", "Sex swap scientist in fight for life" and "Sex-swap scientist gored by stag".

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[suzifrommd]

Wow. I can't imagine anyone apologizing like this in the U.S. Newspapers here will print whatever sells. I hope this sets a precedent - that the press will stop using our transitions to sell papers.

[Carol2000]

Wow. I can't imagine anyone apologizing like this in the U.S. Newspapers here will print whatever sells. I hope this sets a precedent - that the press will stop using our transitions to sell papers.

This new ruling was instigated by the Press Complaints Commission in the last couple of years or so. But as you can see, some of the Press still choose to ignore the ruling to sell newspapers. They then get rapped over the knuckles for doing so and are told to publish and "apology", which, as you can see, is not an apology at all but is them simply acknowledging that they have overstepped the mark. However, the good thing is that now they have to remove the offending references in the online article.

Caroline