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		<title>Comment on Tread lightly&#8230;tread very lightly indeed&#8230; by Where Have All the Comments Gone? &#124; Trans Scribe</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Where Have All the Comments Gone? &#124; Trans Scribe]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] at the hatred unleashed against Suzanne, even Jane changed her stance, complaining on her own blog about the attempts to threaten Suzanne&#8217;s safety.  Another major reason for this disquiet is [...]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] at the hatred unleashed against Suzanne, even Jane changed her stance, complaining on her own blog about the attempts to threaten Suzanne&#8217;s safety.  Another major reason for this disquiet is [...]</p>
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		<title>Comment on A little light activism by Kate Middleton</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate Middleton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 09:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Said Doctor was arrested and interviewed by Thames Valley police on September 4th 2008 but I was told afterwards that he is very eminent and well protected and TVP have ignored the evidence and tried to protect him.

The only reason that they have been able to do this is lack of support; they keep trying to revictimise me. The more peeps who see the evidence the better]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Said Doctor was arrested and interviewed by Thames Valley police on September 4th 2008 but I was told afterwards that he is very eminent and well protected and TVP have ignored the evidence and tried to protect him.</p>
<p>The only reason that they have been able to do this is lack of support; they keep trying to revictimise me. The more peeps who see the evidence the better</p>
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		<title>Comment on A little light activism by Kate Middleton</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate Middleton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 08:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The focus really needs to be on the &quot;psychiatrists&quot;. As you know, I put in a serious complaint to the GMC in 2008 about  a now senior gender psychiatrist for abusing me as a &quot;vulnerable&quot;, &quot;upset&quot; seventeen year old back in 1982. The abuse included, but was not limited to, unconsented examination of my genitals on 25/11/82 while talking about masturbation. We have that in his own handwriting,

It appears that I was correctly identified as an early onset or &quot;primary transsexual&quot; by Keith Hawton, now Professor of Adolescent Suicide Research at Oxford some time after 18/11/82 as Dr K wrote to him  saying he had &quot;no personal experience&quot;.

The school where I was resident at the time had an expectation of &quot;expert counselling&quot; and as they were in loco parentis Dr K needed their permission before fondling my genitals for whatever reason 

The GMC have blatantly discriminated against me as Paul Rowe was used as a witness against Russell Reid for offences going back to 1988. The GMC have got their own rules wrong and not answered my complaints about fraud and dishonesty.

Dr K was telling three different stories throughout the time he was seeing me and the lies that he told my housemaster after I had attempted suicide on 6/11/82 about me being obviously V disturbed and needing &quot;psychiatric therapy&quot; were used to inform my future medical treatment. He was also claiming to be a &quot;specialist&quot; who was &quot;genuinely very concerned about me&quot;. (8/11/82)

Now the abuse is coming into the open , the GMC can hardly claim that it is not in the public interest to have a hearing because said Dr has a reputation and my MP says he sounds like Harold Shipman.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The focus really needs to be on the &#8220;psychiatrists&#8221;. As you know, I put in a serious complaint to the GMC in 2008 about  a now senior gender psychiatrist for abusing me as a &#8220;vulnerable&#8221;, &#8220;upset&#8221; seventeen year old back in 1982. The abuse included, but was not limited to, unconsented examination of my genitals on 25/11/82 while talking about masturbation. We have that in his own handwriting,</p>
<p>It appears that I was correctly identified as an early onset or &#8220;primary transsexual&#8221; by Keith Hawton, now Professor of Adolescent Suicide Research at Oxford some time after 18/11/82 as Dr K wrote to him  saying he had &#8220;no personal experience&#8221;.</p>
<p>The school where I was resident at the time had an expectation of &#8220;expert counselling&#8221; and as they were in loco parentis Dr K needed their permission before fondling my genitals for whatever reason </p>
<p>The GMC have blatantly discriminated against me as Paul Rowe was used as a witness against Russell Reid for offences going back to 1988. The GMC have got their own rules wrong and not answered my complaints about fraud and dishonesty.</p>
<p>Dr K was telling three different stories throughout the time he was seeing me and the lies that he told my housemaster after I had attempted suicide on 6/11/82 about me being obviously V disturbed and needing &#8220;psychiatric therapy&#8221; were used to inform my future medical treatment. He was also claiming to be a &#8220;specialist&#8221; who was &#8220;genuinely very concerned about me&#8221;. (8/11/82)</p>
<p>Now the abuse is coming into the open , the GMC can hardly claim that it is not in the public interest to have a hearing because said Dr has a reputation and my MP says he sounds like Harold Shipman.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Tread lightly&#8230;tread very lightly indeed&#8230; by janefae</title>
		<link>http://sexualitymatters.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/tread-lightly-tread-very-lightly-indeed/#comment-506</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[janefae]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If she abuses words to attack, i will utterly oppose that...

However, i mean what i say here...and i think i even surprised myself. In general terms, in most social interactions,it is not for the toucher to tell the touchee what is acceptable or what they should or should not find intimidating.

i&#039;ve been on the receiving end of a twitter mob and even that...verbal abuse alone...is pretty awful.

i&#039;ve been in situation now where i am pretty sure no harm was intended by another party, but...i felt seriously intimidated and where, if they were repeated, i would say as much.

Suzanne Moore tonight was tweeting to the effect that she found the tweeting intimidating.  i get that. It may be, logically, that you can make a case for why it isn&#039;t.

But if she feels intimidated and/or says she does, we must listen.  Because if we don&#039;t listen, we are on very dangerous ground indeed.

jane xx]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If she abuses words to attack, i will utterly oppose that&#8230;</p>
<p>However, i mean what i say here&#8230;and i think i even surprised myself. In general terms, in most social interactions,it is not for the toucher to tell the touchee what is acceptable or what they should or should not find intimidating.</p>
<p>i&#8217;ve been on the receiving end of a twitter mob and even that&#8230;verbal abuse alone&#8230;is pretty awful.</p>
<p>i&#8217;ve been in situation now where i am pretty sure no harm was intended by another party, but&#8230;i felt seriously intimidated and where, if they were repeated, i would say as much.</p>
<p>Suzanne Moore tonight was tweeting to the effect that she found the tweeting intimidating.  i get that. It may be, logically, that you can make a case for why it isn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>But if she feels intimidated and/or says she does, we must listen.  Because if we don&#8217;t listen, we are on very dangerous ground indeed.</p>
<p>jane xx</p>
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		<title>Comment on Tread lightly&#8230;tread very lightly indeed&#8230; by Phoebe Queen</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phoebe Queen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh really Jane, come on. Some trans activists tweeted that she would be on the panel at a public event, one which she had also publicised herself. To suggest that it&#039;s unacceptable for people to note her presence speaking in a debating panel (I think focused on Leveson but with certain relevances to the controversies of the last week) is absolutely ridiculous.

For her to suggest that people who disagree with her turning up at a PUBLIC DEBATE is some sort of intimidation or threat is similarly ridiculous.

This constant spreading of lies about how the trans community has attacked and threatened her is wearing thin. She keeps going on about being labelled an &quot;EDL supporter&quot; following a completely bizarre tweet from this guy: https://twitter.com/SCOUSEYNWA/status/289499269856100352

Too many people are feeding this idea of a baying mob going after her. I think someone else summed it up pretty solidly elsewhere, what&#039;s happened is the result of having a big platform, a format that allows everyone pretty equal access to speak their mind, and her having the ability to offend a few thousand people at once. I&#039;d add to that the lack of awareness or willingness to recognise that everyone else&#039;s free speech can be uncomfortable if you&#039;re going to be loudly obnoxious.

Meanwhile she&#039;s free to stamp heavily all over us, defame the trans community at large, be really rude and misrepresentative about our issues, stereotype us and play the victim when we complain about it. Stuff that. Poor her having to hear from and live in a world with people who don&#039;t like what she has to say.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh really Jane, come on. Some trans activists tweeted that she would be on the panel at a public event, one which she had also publicised herself. To suggest that it&#8217;s unacceptable for people to note her presence speaking in a debating panel (I think focused on Leveson but with certain relevances to the controversies of the last week) is absolutely ridiculous.</p>
<p>For her to suggest that people who disagree with her turning up at a PUBLIC DEBATE is some sort of intimidation or threat is similarly ridiculous.</p>
<p>This constant spreading of lies about how the trans community has attacked and threatened her is wearing thin. She keeps going on about being labelled an &#8220;EDL supporter&#8221; following a completely bizarre tweet from this guy: <a href="https://twitter.com/SCOUSEYNWA/status/289499269856100352" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/SCOUSEYNWA/status/289499269856100352</a></p>
<p>Too many people are feeding this idea of a baying mob going after her. I think someone else summed it up pretty solidly elsewhere, what&#8217;s happened is the result of having a big platform, a format that allows everyone pretty equal access to speak their mind, and her having the ability to offend a few thousand people at once. I&#8217;d add to that the lack of awareness or willingness to recognise that everyone else&#8217;s free speech can be uncomfortable if you&#8217;re going to be loudly obnoxious.</p>
<p>Meanwhile she&#8217;s free to stamp heavily all over us, defame the trans community at large, be really rude and misrepresentative about our issues, stereotype us and play the victim when we complain about it. Stuff that. Poor her having to hear from and live in a world with people who don&#8217;t like what she has to say.</p>
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		<title>Comment on And (not) in other news today by artofstumbling</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[artofstumbling]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it has just got to the stage now where she is enjoying the attention! Thanks for your interesting post and also expanding my knowledge of Danish Kings. (I had to google to check it was a real thing)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think it has just got to the stage now where she is enjoying the attention! Thanks for your interesting post and also expanding my knowledge of Danish Kings. (I had to google to check it was a real thing)</p>
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		<title>Comment on And (not) in other news today by janefae</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[janefae]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, don&#039;t. There is a pile of irony lurking in the corner of my bedroom that i will need to get back to later today....

jane xx]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, don&#8217;t. There is a pile of irony lurking in the corner of my bedroom that i will need to get back to later today&#8230;.</p>
<p>jane xx</p>
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		<title>Comment on And (not) in other news today by Paula Thomas</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paula Thomas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agreed that twitter lacks verbal colour but that applies to all written words and she is a writer...

But I suppose the real danger of twitter is its immediacy with no army of editors and sub-editors to challenge... But wait that&#039;s what the Observer is supposed to have...

Now that is called irony.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Agreed that twitter lacks verbal colour but that applies to all written words and she is a writer&#8230;</p>
<p>But I suppose the real danger of twitter is its immediacy with no army of editors and sub-editors to challenge&#8230; But wait that&#8217;s what the Observer is supposed to have&#8230;</p>
<p>Now that is called irony.</p>
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		<title>Comment on And (not) in other news today by janefae</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[janefae]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[say it aloud. I bet you can find ways of saying it that are casual and throwaway, as well as heartfelt and offensive.

That&#039;s the difficulty with twitter...no verbal colour.

jane xx]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>say it aloud. I bet you can find ways of saying it that are casual and throwaway, as well as heartfelt and offensive.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the difficulty with twitter&#8230;no verbal colour.</p>
<p>jane xx</p>
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		<title>Comment on And (not) in other news today by Cathy Butler</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cathy Butler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#039;t disagree with your conclusion, but...

“Read this piece of shit and Pink News will hear from my lawyers in the morning”

I&#039;m trying hard to reread this as an example of laughing and dancing and playing with words, and coming up empty. Had the phrase &quot;this shit&quot; been absent I can see that she might - just might - have passed it off as an ironic comment on the modern tendency of some people (not trans people, they can&#039;t afford it) to litigate at the drop of a hat. But &quot;this shit&quot; is not lighthearted.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t disagree with your conclusion, but&#8230;</p>
<p>“Read this piece of shit and Pink News will hear from my lawyers in the morning”</p>
<p>I&#8217;m trying hard to reread this as an example of laughing and dancing and playing with words, and coming up empty. Had the phrase &#8220;this shit&#8221; been absent I can see that she might &#8211; just might &#8211; have passed it off as an ironic comment on the modern tendency of some people (not trans people, they can&#8217;t afford it) to litigate at the drop of a hat. But &#8220;this shit&#8221; is not lighthearted.</p>
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