TRANSGENDERStunning and brave, bravely stunning and stunningly brave, transwoman plays on women’s Gaelic Football team In Ireland

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[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 14 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Did you spot how they deliberately didn’t print a picture of the stunning and brave individual. Seems like a pretty big change to journalism, to curtail their reporting to spare the feelings of the subject.

The Guardian agreed not to publish this or any photograph that identified Valentino, who has been harassed. “Safety is a privilege that doesn’t belong to trans people,” she said.

Special rules for certain groups.

[–]Datachost 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Yes, I'm sure safety is their sole motivator and not at all because even they know this is hard to defend: https://imgur.com/a/F7Gn4GX

[–]Enemycupcake 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That's absurd... are people seriously accepting calling that balding man making zero effort a woman, or did someone edit the photo to make it look even more ridiculous?

[–]Datachost 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Not edited at all to my knowledge. Considering his LinkedIn profile picture also shows him as a whole arse bald man he genuinely seems to think everyone has to go along with it. That's probably part of the thrill really, obviously looking like a man, but getting everyone to say you're a woman

[–]Enemycupcake 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wow that is really something. You're probably right that forcing people to bend over and call him a woman is half the fun, I don't know why else he wouldn't make even a tiny bit of effort to look female. I love that the referee had the balls to stand up for sanity and refuse to play along.