LINKThe complaint sought to invoke four clauses in the PCC's Code of Practice: privacy (3), harassment (4), clandestine devices and subterfuge (10) and discrimination (12).
Explaining its decision to reject the complaint, the PCC said: "The mere fact of a person's gender change – the consequences of which are publicly apparent – does not in itself constitute intrinsically private information. There was therefore no intrusion under Clause 3 on this
point. Indeed, the complainant himself noted the fact that everyone in his home town knew he was a transsexual. In terms of Clause 12, the references to the complainant's gender status were not pejorative or prejudicial, and there was therefore no breach of Clause 12 either."
