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Title: Transsexual trucker is 'hounded out' for wearing make-up
Post by: Lori on July 22, 2007, 10:12:56 PM
Post by: Lori on July 22, 2007, 10:12:56 PM
Woman's world: Mr Gaynor as Vikki-Marie
A transsexual is seeking thousands of pounds in damages after claiming he was forced out of his job as a truck driver when he starting dressing as a woman.
Vikki-Marie Gaynor, 37, who was born a man, claims bosses started cancelling his shifts when he dropped his old name, Mike, and started wearing women's clothes, earrings and make-up to work.
The former soldier, who has been married twice and has a teenage daughter, was taunted by other drivers who made rude gestures towards him, it is alleged.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=470183&in_page_id=1770 (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=470183&in_page_id=1770)
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He, his, Mr.,and him. You'd think they could start getting the pronouns right by now.
A transsexual is seeking thousands of pounds in damages after claiming he was forced out of his job as a truck driver when he starting dressing as a woman.
Vikki-Marie Gaynor, 37, who was born a man, claims bosses started cancelling his shifts when he dropped his old name, Mike, and started wearing women's clothes, earrings and make-up to work.
The former soldier, who has been married twice and has a teenage daughter, was taunted by other drivers who made rude gestures towards him, it is alleged.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=470183&in_page_id=1770 (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=470183&in_page_id=1770)
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He, his, Mr.,and him. You'd think they could start getting the pronouns right by now.
Title: Re: Transsexual trucker is 'hounded out' for wearing make-up
Post by: RebeccaFog on July 22, 2007, 10:30:31 PM
Post by: RebeccaFog on July 22, 2007, 10:30:31 PM
I know it happens, but reading this type of story is just as disgusting as ever. I wish her the best of luck.
Posted on: July 22, 2007, 10:25:55 PM
I went to the gender genie that everyone is talking about and I entered this article which was by Liz Hull who I assume is a female. This is what I got.
Words: 607
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)
Female Score: 659
Male Score: 728
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!
try again
Analysis
Feminine Keywords Masculine Keywords
[with] 6 x 52 = 312 [around] 0 x 42 = 0
[if] 1 x 47 = 47 [what] 0 x 35 = 0
[not] 3 x 27 = 81 [more] 0 x 34 = 0
[where] 0 x 18 = 0 [are] 1 x 28 = 28
[be] 1 x 17 = 17 [as] 11 x 23 = 253
[when] 3 x 17 = 51 [who] 5 x 19 = 95
[your] 0 x 17 = 0 [below] 0 x 8 = 0
[her] 0 x 9 = 0 [is] 6 x 8 = 48
[we] 2 x 8 = 16 [these] 0 x 8 = 0
[should] 1 x 7 = 7 [the] 14 x 7 = 98
[she] 0 x 6 = 0 [a] 24 x 6 = 144
[and] 25 x 4 = 100 [at] 1 x 6 = 6
[me] 4 x 4 = 16 [it] 4 x 6 = 24
[myself] 0 x 4 = 0 [many] 0 x 6 = 0
[hers] 0 x 3 = 0 [said] 2 x 5 = 10
[was] 12 x 1 = 12 [above] 0 x 4 = 0
[to] 11 x 2 = 22
I guess the reporter is not much of a lady herself.
Title: Re: Transsexual trucker is 'hounded out' for wearing make-up
Post by: Thundra on July 22, 2007, 10:37:51 PM
Post by: Thundra on July 22, 2007, 10:37:51 PM
She's lucky they didn't kill her.
Driving truck is not for the meek.
Harrassment of females or even rape is commonplace.
Driving truck is not for the meek.
Harrassment of females or even rape is commonplace.
Title: Re: Transsexual trucker is 'hounded out' for wearing make-up
Post by: Kate Thomas on July 23, 2007, 12:35:18 AM
Post by: Kate Thomas on July 23, 2007, 12:35:18 AM
This story has a comment section. be sure to let the daily-mail know how you feel about improper pronoun usage. I did.
Title: Re: Transsexual trucker is 'hounded out' for wearing make-up
Post by: RebeccaFog on July 23, 2007, 06:42:50 AM
Post by: RebeccaFog on July 23, 2007, 06:42:50 AM
Quote from: Kate Alice on July 23, 2007, 12:35:18 AM
This story has a comment section. be sure to let the daily-mail know how you feel about improper pronoun usage. I did.
me too. i used my non de plume of 'robot fog'
Title: Re: Transsexual trucker is 'hounded out' for wearing make-up
Post by: Lori on July 23, 2007, 07:07:21 AM
Post by: Lori on July 23, 2007, 07:07:21 AM
I left a comment as well but it was not posted. I suspect it was screened out. I bet if I were to write something in favor of the bigotry, like the person from dallas who got his comment posted, I would succeed in getting that displayed. I doubt any comments against the article will be posted. I picked that link up from Drudge Report that gets I don't know how many millions of hits per day, so the fact there is only one negative comment so far is hopeful.
Title: Re: Transsexual trucker is 'hounded out' for wearing make-up
Post by: RebeccaFog on July 23, 2007, 07:52:44 AM
Post by: RebeccaFog on July 23, 2007, 07:52:44 AM
I went back and saw the negative comment and I wrote another one that basically attacked Mr. Texas. If they won't print my real comment, I'll bet they print this one because it attacks somebody.
I was robotfog for that one too. Although, I should be using my other name of 'Jack Human' for these socially conscious posts.
I may go back and post the fact that their 'female' writer shows as being male on gender genie. Heh heh. I know this is going nowhere, but, what the heck?
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