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Title: Lucy Meadows Cause Of Death Ruled A Suicide; Coroner Tells Press 'Shame On You'
Post by: suzifrommd on May 30, 2013, 11:03:23 AM
Post by: suzifrommd on May 30, 2013, 11:03:23 AM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/29/lucy-meadows-cause-of-death-suicide_n_3351992.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/29/lucy-meadows-cause-of-death-suicide_n_3351992.html)
Posted: 05/29/2013 11:20 am EDT
A coroner slammed the press after he ruled that a transgender teacher, whose transition made national headlines in the United Kingdom, had committed suicide.
Coroner Michael Singleton revealed Tuesday that the cause of death of transgender primary school teacher Lucy Meadows was suicide, the Guardian reported. Meadows, 32, poisoned herself in her home on March 19, just three months after she began living and working as a woman at St. Mary Magdalen's Church of England Primary School in Accrington, Lancashire.
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Singleton told the press "shame on all of you" and singled out the Daily Mail for its "ridicule and humiliation" and "character assassination."
Richard Littlejohn had penned an article for the Daily Mail called "He's not only in the wrong body... he's in the wrong job," in which he reasoned that Meadows' presence in the classroom would have a "devastating" effect on the children.
The Daily Mail has denied any connection between Littlejohn's article and Meadows' suicide, the BBC notes. The paper argued that Littlejohn "defended the rights of people to have sex change operations."
Posted: 05/29/2013 11:20 am EDT
A coroner slammed the press after he ruled that a transgender teacher, whose transition made national headlines in the United Kingdom, had committed suicide.
Coroner Michael Singleton revealed Tuesday that the cause of death of transgender primary school teacher Lucy Meadows was suicide, the Guardian reported. Meadows, 32, poisoned herself in her home on March 19, just three months after she began living and working as a woman at St. Mary Magdalen's Church of England Primary School in Accrington, Lancashire.
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Singleton told the press "shame on all of you" and singled out the Daily Mail for its "ridicule and humiliation" and "character assassination."
Richard Littlejohn had penned an article for the Daily Mail called "He's not only in the wrong body... he's in the wrong job," in which he reasoned that Meadows' presence in the classroom would have a "devastating" effect on the children.
The Daily Mail has denied any connection between Littlejohn's article and Meadows' suicide, the BBC notes. The paper argued that Littlejohn "defended the rights of people to have sex change operations."