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Title: Daily Record Backed by PCC Over Sex-Swap Article
Post by: LostInTime on January 05, 2007, 08:47:27 AM
Post by: LostInTime on January 05, 2007, 08:47:27 AM
LINK (http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/717/05012007/daily_record_backed_by_pcc_over_sex-swap_article)
The 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."
The 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."