From Politics.Co UK: http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2013/03/27/lucy-meadows-death-could-set-transgender-community-free
By Alex Stevenson
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
The tragic death of Lucy Meadows could be a “watershed moment” for Britain’s transgender community, her MP has claimed.
Graham Jones, the Labour backbencher for Hyndburn, is seeking a debate in parliament on the circumstances leading to Meadows’ death. She had endured public humiliation after the media focused on her gender transition.
Jones attacked the “oppressive” nature of Britain’s printed press as a petition calling for the Daily Mail to sack columnist Richard Littlejohn, who had singled Meadows out for criticism in a column headlined ‘he’s not only in the wrong body… he’s in the wrong job’, approached 200,000 signatures.
“This is a dark moment for the transgender community and the Lucy Meadows case is a deplorable tragedy,” Jones told politics.co.uk.
“It also raises the issue about the way the transgender community are treated and I think that they’ve had an unfair press.
“I think that a debate around the issues of transgender and other minorities will perhaps highlight the oppressive nature of some of the journalistic articles that have appeared over time targeting transgender people. So I think this may be a watershed moment in which transgender people finally get a fair hearing.”
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