Sent to the I's 'Voices' section, in response to continued misgendering of Chelsea Manning.
I was pleased to note that you decided, in today's edition of the paper,
to print a letter, similar to the one I myself sent in yesterday,
condemning your own editorial choices with regards to reporting on
Chelsea Manning's decision to live as a woman. I was significantly less
pleased to see this letter printed across from an article that
consistently referred to Pvt. Manning as 'He' and 'Bradley'. Clearly,
myself and other correspondents have bought this matter to your
attention, and you have acknowledged your faults, yet you continue to do
nothing to correct them. Let me offer a possible course of action.
Presumably your writers, editors, layout staff and so on use computer
text editors to produce your paper? As any of the 16 year old children
who attained a passing grade in GCSE IT last week might be able to tell
you, the normal shortcut for 'find and replace' is ctrl+h in Windows or
Linux and cmd+f in Mac OS. Changing 'He' for 'She', 'His' for 'Her',
'Bradley' for 'Chelsea' etc. would take you less than a minute and cost
nothing, whilst putting your paper on an ethical level above the one it
currently occupies, next to such august publications as The Sun and the
Daily Express.
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