The media rarely reports on the affairs of the transgendered community unless it can poke fun at it, or show up how doctors are flouting the rules to give more people what the Sun loves to call “sex swap ops”. BBC comedy loves to run “ladyboy” jokes, and the Guardian gets in a vicious attack on transsexual people whenever it can. Which brings us to the events of the last seven days.When the news broke that Dr Richard Curtis faced investigation by the GMC for failing to get the second opinion of a psychiatrist before referring some of his patients for surgery, several newspapers ran with the story. That same day, Cambridge Councillor Sarah Brown began a Twitter discussion charting the thousands of cases of mistreatment and outright abuse of transgendered people by the medical profession, under the hashtag #TransDocFail.No newspaper covered this.
