Cyber bullying pain of transgender teen

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Cyber bullying pain of transgender teen
Thurrock Gazette
26 January, 2011


http://www.thurrockgazette.co.uk/news/8811783.Cyber_bullying_pain_of_transgender_teen/


THE parents of a transgender teen, in hospital after cyber bullies urged her to kill herself, say she was failed by her school and the police.

Seventeen-year-old Vicky was born male and as a boy called Simon, had a trouble-free education at Gable Hall School in Corringham.

But that, she claimed, changed when she started the sixth form as Vicky.

She had doors slammed in her face, shouts of "->-bleeped-<-"and "queer" in the corridor, and was ignored.

Then she got a message on a social networking site urging her to commit suicide.