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The Observer newspaper under pressure as anti-transphobia protesters gear up for demonstration
By Ray Filar
16 January 2013
Protests against transphobia in the UK media are scheduled to take place tomorrow (17 January) in London and Manchester.
Around 300 attendees are expected to demonstrate outside of the London offices of the Observer newspaper, part of the Guardian Media Group.
The protests were initiated by Sarah Savage, star of the Channel 4 drama My Transsexual Summer.
Trans issues have taken center stage in the UK press this week, following the Observer’s publication of a transphobic article (13 January) by outspoken columnist Julie Burchill.
Having provoked a wave of complaint, the anti-trans piece was later withdrawn from the Observer website.
But Toby Young, blogger for The Daily Telegraph newspaper, took the controversial decision to reprint the hate-filled article.
A second protest (18 January) has been now arranged outside of the offices of The Telegraph.
An open letter addressed to the Guardian Media Group laid out the reasons for the protest. It said that the Observer’s statement on its decision to withdraw Burchill’s article is not enough.
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