[Me. I Am Salman]

Trans woman commits suicide after being bullied by the Daily Mail

It was exactly three months ago that Richard Littlejohn published a piece in the Daily Mail viciously attacking Lucy Meadows, a primary school teacher in Britain. Littlejohn targeted Meadows because she’s transgender and had chosen to remain in her job as a teacher after beginning to present as a woman – this was the entire basis for his outrageous, unprovoked assault on her identity, her career, and her very life. It was vile and hateful in all the ways we’ve come to expect from a publication that, like much of the press these days, treats trans women as alternately ridiculous or a threat to society. It was quite literally intolerant of everything that Lucy Meadows was.

So it came as a surprise today that the Daily Mail has completely removed any mention of Meadows from Littlejohn’s column. What happened? Did they suffer a sudden attack of morality, three months later? No. Their decision was based on something much darker than conscience.

Lucy Meadows killed herself this week.

Three months ago, Richard Littlejohn chose to single her out, a woman who had done absolutely nothing wrong, and tear her life apart in one of Britain’s biggest papers. Richard Littlejohn chose to refer to her as “he”, and include only photos of her from before she had begun to live openly as a woman. He called her existence “devastating” to the children under her care:
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He said that Meadows’ students needed to be “protected” from her by their school:

He called her a threat to their innocence:

He attacked her very name:

And he told her to “disappear” and move out of town:

Well, she’s disappeared now. Lucy Meadows is dead. Are you happy with yourselves, Daily Mail? Are you proud that you used your platform as a national publication to rip open the life of an innocent woman and put her deeply personal struggles on display for an audience of millions? Are you satisfied now that you’ve “exposed” a woman who wanted nothing more than to teach the students she knew and cared for? Did you ever think about how it would feel to be Lucy Meadows at the moment when your paper chose to label her as forever “male” and a threat to her own students? Obviously that didn’t deter you from publishing this disgusting, horrible column in the first place. So why bother hiding your deeds now?

What’s one life next to the opportunity for yet another vacuous, melodramatic headline about transsexuals?

link to the DM article: http://web.archive.org/web/201212211...wrong-job.html

http://freethoughtblogs.com/zinniajo...he-daily-mail/

wow :/

[Shaun]

Read about this the other day... it's just horrifying... and it's so frustrating whenever people roll their eyes at people hating on the paper... because it's a ****ing disgrace to journalism, and a source of hatred, fear, xenophobia, racism, homophobia and all kinds of prejudice. It's disgusting, and I cannot wait for the day it ceases to exist. I will not hear anything said in its favour.

[Munchkins]

I ****ing detest the daily mail, disgusting paper, slanders womens appearances, calls them fat, makes fun of men, homophobic, racist, against all people on benefits
when i saw this story i felt so sick
R.I.P Lucy

[Saph]

That's horrible I hate stuff like this

[Vicky.]

****ing disgusting. I expect nothing less from the DM..but that doesnt make this story any less tragic

[Suze]

That is very sad. I can't begin to understand what she must have been going through. I doubt it was completely to do with that disgusting rag, but I don't suppose those articles helped any the less with that hounding in the news items. It's such a shame Lucy, and I am only taking a guess here, probably never had a close enough confident/counsel to talk stuff through with rather than seeing that as the only way out. May she rest in peace. So very sad that it should have come to that though

[Jack_]

When will someone just close this abhorrent waste of paper down? It's a disgusting excuse for journalism that panders to some of the most small-minded and bigoted creatures this country has to offer. Their comments section is like a zoo for the ignorant.

I hope Richard Littlejohn is happy with himself and I hope he processes just for one minute what his little pathetic column has contributed to here, and I hope that forces him into doing us all a favour...and throwing himself off the nearest ****ing bridge. As for the commenters, perhaps their mindless offerings shall haunt them for the rest of their life as they cry themselves to sleep. Then again, perhaps they'll just log onto the Mail Online for yet another day to spurt their foul, hateful bullsh*t. Scum of the earth.

Rest in Peace.

[Tom4784]

It's horrific, what's sad is that chances are the DM won't take any flak over this, they'll just carry on like nothing is wrong.

[arista]

This one writer on the DM

I do not bother reading his stuff.

It still has a Top Female section.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

It's horrific, what's sad is that chances are the DM won't take any flak over this, they'll just carry on like nothing is wrong.

True

[Jords]

Terribly sad

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Jack_

When will someone just close this abhorrent waste of paper down? It's a disgusting excuse for journalism that panders to some of the most small-minded and bigoted creatures this country has to offer. Their comments section is like a zoo for the ignorant.

I hope Richard Littlejohn is happy with himself and I hope he processes just for one minute what his little pathetic column has contributed to here, and I hope that forces him into doing us all a favour...and throwing himself off the nearest ****ing bridge. As for the commenters, perhaps their mindless offerings shall haunt them for the rest of their life as they cry themselves to sleep. Then again, perhaps they'll just log onto the Mail Online for yet another day to spurt their foul, hateful bullsh*t. Scum of the earth.

Rest in Peace.

I'd like to echo everything said in this post.
This is a really distressing story.

The Daily Mail is truly a paper out of the gutter and the sooner it is put there permanently the better.
Then the Sun next please.

[arista]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

I'd like to echo everything said in this post.
This is a really distressing story.

The Daily Mail is truly a paper out of the gutter and the sooner it is put there permanently the better.
Then the Sun next please.

No Joey
its one Wrong Writer on it.


I view The Guardian and the DM
I want to see both sides.

The DM has a Top Womans section
Loads of Left Wing women check that section online
Fact.

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by arista

No Joey
its one Wrong Writer on it.


I view The Guardian and the DM
I want to see both sides.

The DM has a Top Womans section
Loads of Left Wing women check that section online
Fact.

Oh I think there are a good number of really awful people at the Daily Mail.
As for the Woman's section, I am sure everyone could find just as good sections in other mags and papers.

The only fact I feel as to the Daily Mail is that it is a truly rotten publication.

[the truth]

you lot are mocking a man for impotence and a small penis on another thread, what if he commits suicide?