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Less than a year ago, on June 19th, the Ontario government passed Toby's Law, which amends the Province's Human Rights Code to protect people from discrimination based on gender identity and gender expression. This enshrines in law the basic right of people to live as the gender they believe they are. There's nothing here for the Sun to retract. It's not like they skewed a hard news story, which they do as a matter of course. Had the model specifically lied about being transgender, the paper would certainly be saying so now. They didn't ask if she was cisgender; she didn't tell them she was transgender.
Given the new legislation, it would be interesting to see what might happen if the Sun were to question models about their gender status.
What is interesting about the story is that the Sun, a newspaper that has had strained relations with the LGBT community over the decades, ends up publishing a photo of a trans woman that is clearly intended to appeal to its male heterosexual readership. One of the previous posters put up a link to a story in Xtra about the Sun photo. That story links to a previous article in Xtra, describing the Sun's treatment of the LGBT community. Recently, local media have been falling all over eachother to eulogize the late Peter Worthington, the Sun's former editor-in-chief, who, following the 1981 Bath House raids in Toronto, published the names and addresses of men charged -- charged, mind you, not convicted.
So the little paper that has dedicated itself to killing progressive thinking ends up promoting it.
Karma.
Given the new legislation, it would be interesting to see what might happen if the Sun were to question models about their gender status.
What is interesting about the story is that the Sun, a newspaper that has had strained relations with the LGBT community over the decades, ends up publishing a photo of a trans woman that is clearly intended to appeal to its male heterosexual readership. One of the previous posters put up a link to a story in Xtra about the Sun photo. That story links to a previous article in Xtra, describing the Sun's treatment of the LGBT community. Recently, local media have been falling all over eachother to eulogize the late Peter Worthington, the Sun's former editor-in-chief, who, following the 1981 Bath House raids in Toronto, published the names and addresses of men charged -- charged, mind you, not convicted.
So the little paper that has dedicated itself to killing progressive thinking ends up promoting it.
Karma.
.
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