3/25/13
300 Attend Vigil for Lucy Meadows At the Daily Mail Offices
The 300 people attending the vigil were respectful, memorializing Lucy Meadows the transgender teacher who tragically died shortly after beginning transition and the subsequent horrific article by the Daily Mail. The participants had a memo to deliver to the Daily Mail.
Transgender people will no longer allow themselves to be monstered by this tabloids.
MP Graham Jones who was in attendance tweeted "Just raised the death of #lucymeadows in the House of Commons. Universal sympathy. Speaker described such journalist actions as despicable."
Another participant observed "Oh the irony, looking down on you when much of society is looking down on them."
I personally did not appreciate the Guardian reporting on this so I didn't use them as a source. Read more at Gay Star News.
R.I.P. Lucy
3/24/13
Petition: Moss Point Board of Trustees Fire Superintendent Griffin and MJHS Principal Joanne Pettaway
Moss Point school district has a horrific history of sexual harassment.
Oh, I'm sure they would like to say this condition has been remedied with the letter sent to parents in response to the SPLC demand letter and the inclusive student handbook but evidence tells us otherwise.
July 2012, not even a year ago, a woman was awarded $100,000 for sexual harassment she suffered at the hands of former Moss Point superintendent Kim Staley.
The woman, Tonya Jackson-Hall was a principal at Kreole Elementary in June 2009 when she sexually assaulted, harassed and terminated.
During the same time period Jackson-Hall was awarded these damages a 16 year old lesbian student was being bullied and punished for reporting it so intensely at Moss Point Magnolia Junior High school by staff and students she quit and tried to kill herself!!
There must be drastic actions, large scale investigations and dismissals if these life threatening conditions are to be rectified.
I have begun a unsolicited action, a petition asking that the president of the Board of Trustees fire the Superintendent and Principal. I am demanding the superintendent pay the consequences for ignoring a condition that undoubtedly exists in all of the schools. To assume this homophobia and transphobia is prevalent and encouraged in only one school in the district is naive to the point it might cost yet more LGBT student's right to education if not there life.
Please sign the petition. You could be saving the life of one of our own.
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