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Endangering A Transgender Youth To Tell A Story

Started by Shana A, May 05, 2008, 10:24:55 PM

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May 05, 2008, 10:24:55 PM Last Edit: May 06, 2008, 07:16:21 AM by Zythyra
Endangering A Transgender Youth To Tell A Story
May 5th, 2008 by Autumn Sandeen

http://transadvocate.com/autumnsandeen/archives/1639
or http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=9A8E0DF4516BBAEA4F151E2316167301?diaryId=5281

Joelle Farrell and John Sullivan are the bylined writers of a Philadelphia Inquirer (Philly.com) piece entitled School challenge: Transgender student is age 9. Incredibly, the article gave out information that could help identify the specific daytime whereabouts and nighttime neighborhood of a nine year old transgender youth.

In addition to functionally outing a nine year old, the Philadelphia Inquirer also ignored reputable journalistic standards for how to refer to transgender people. They showed disrespect for the article's transgender youth by to referring to her with male pronouns in a manner inconsistent with the Associated Press Stylebook's guidelines on how to refer to transgender people:
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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