Letters: Inquirer left transgender student vulnerable
Stephen A. Glassman

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/pa/20080516_Letters___Inquirer_left_transgender_student_vulnerable.html

The Inquirer made a serious error in judgment when it revealed far too much identifying information in an article describing the life of a transgender student in the Haverford School District ("School challenge: Transgender student is age 9," May 3). By introducing the name of the school and the neighborhood in which the subject lives, someone intent on harming this young person could easily find out her identity.

Stephen Glassman is absolutely spot-on and the Inquirer editors, regardless of how they feel, should ahve done much better than they did.

I think that what inevitably gets lost in the struggle and the agreement and disagreement with particular sides of the struggle is that people remain human beings, not objects that require changing, hatred nor do they 'represent' evil or 'things against Nature of 'god.'

I believe both sides tend to forget that in an effort to 'win hearts and minds.' The blogger first and then the Inquirer administration erred badly in exposing the child to unnecessary danger and possible harassment. She is not a football to be booted from twenty-five yeards into the net for a goal.

Nichole