{"id":20480,"date":"2013-01-14T10:12:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T09:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/2013\/01\/14\/julie-burchill-should-be-fired-transexual-blog-featherstone_n_2470341.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-politics?ncid=GEP"},"modified":"2013-01-14T10:12:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T09:12:16","slug":"a-bigoted-vomit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/a-bigoted-vomit\/","title":{"rendered":"‘A Bigoted Vomit’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Columnist Julie Burchill should be sacked for her “disgusting rant” against transsexuals,<\/a> a coalition minister said on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Liberal Democrat Lynne Featherstone condemned an Observer piece in which the journalist made a series of cutting comments about “bedwetters in bad wigs” and “shemales”.<\/p>\n

The article was penned in defence of Burchill’s fellow writer, Suzanne Moore, who came under fire on Twitter after suggesting that women were expected to look like “a Brazilian transsexual”.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Featherstone has called for the Observer columnist to be fired<\/strong><\/p>\n

Burchill wrote that “screaming mimis” had accused her friend of “white feminist privilege” and forced her to leave the social networking site.<\/p>\n

Transsexual,<\/a> Roz Kaveney, wrote a Guardian blog in reply on Sunday.<\/p>\n

She wrote: “It’s hard to know where to begin with Burchill’s defence of Moore \u2014 with ‘Black and White Minstrel Show’, ‘bed-wetting’, or her odd assumption that all trans people<\/a> are middle-class and overeducated.”<\/p>\n

“What I would ask Moore and Burchill is this: do you think that what you’ve written makes it more or less likely that an elderly trans woman living on a housing estate will get jostled on the stairs by her neighbours?<\/p>\n

“Or that a teen trans man will be punched in the street? It’s not anger-fuelled tweets, but that provocation, done with malice by people who should know better, that is the real bullying.”<\/p>\n

A note from the Observer readers’ editor, Stephen Pritchard, was later added to the article on the newspaper website.<\/p>\n

“As you might imagine, I have received many emails protesting about this piece this morning,” the note said. “Thank you to those who have written. I will be looking at this issue and will be replying to all in due course.”<\/p>\n

Posting on Twitter last night, Featherstone – a former equalities minister currently at the Department for International Development – wrote: “Julie Birchill (sic) rant against transgender community is absolutely disgusting – a bigoted vomit for which the Observer should sack her.”<\/p>\n

A Guardian News & Media spokeswoman said: “We acknowledge the strong reaction to Julie Burchill’s piece published in The Observer.<\/p>\n

“As indicated by Observer editor John Mulholland on Twitter, we are taking such reactions extremely seriously and we have asked our independent readers’ editor to urgently investigate the matter.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Columnist Julie Burchill should be sacked for her “disgusting rant” against transsexuals,<\/a> a coalition minister said on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Liberal Democrat Lynne Featherstone condemned an Observer piece in which the journalist made a series of cutting comments about “bedwetters in bad wigs” and “shemales”.<\/p>\n

The article was penned in defence of Burchill’s fellow writer, Suzanne Moore, who came under fire on Twitter after suggesting that women were expected to look like “a Brazilian transsexual”.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"transexual<\/p>\n

Featherstone has called for the Observer columnist to be fired<\/strong><\/p>\n

Burchill wrote that “screaming mimis” had accused her friend of “white feminist privilege” and forced her to leave the social networking site.<\/p>\n

Transsexual,<\/a> Roz Kaveney, wrote a Guardian blog in reply on Sunday.<\/p>\n

She wrote: “It’s hard to know where to begin with Burchill’s defence of Moore – with ‘Black and White Minstrel Show’, ‘bed-wetting’, or her odd assumption that all trans people<\/a> are middle-class and overeducated.”<\/p>\n

“What I would ask Moore and Burchill is this: do you think that what you’ve written makes it more or less likely that an elderly trans woman living on a housing estate will get jostled on the stairs by her neighbours?<\/p>\n

“Or that a teen trans man will be punched in the street? It’s not anger-fuelled tweets, but that provocation, done with malice by people who should know better, that is the real bullying.”<\/p>\n

A note from the Observer readers’ editor, Stephen Pritchard, was later added to the article on the newspaper website.<\/p>\n

“As you might imagine, I have received many emails protesting about this piece this morning,” the note said. “Thank you to those who have written. I will be looking at this issue and will be replying to all in due course.”<\/p>\n

Posting on Twitter last night, Featherstone – a former equalities minister currently at the Department for International Development – wrote: “Julie Birchill (sic) rant against transgender community is absolutely disgusting – a bigoted vomit for which the Observer should sack her.”<\/p>\n

A Guardian News & Media spokeswoman said: “We acknowledge the strong reaction to Julie Burchill’s piece published in The Observer.<\/p>\n

“As indicated by Observer editor John Mulholland on Twitter, we are taking such reactions extremely seriously and we have asked our independent readers’ editor to urgently investigate the matter.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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