The Mail Faces Criticism for Outing Transgender Soldiers

The Mail on Sunday has received backlash for outing two transgender soldiers serving in Germany.

The article included pictures of the soldiers before and after their transition, it is unclear if the soldiers gave their consent to being published.

“It is not appropriate to out people. It is simply salacious headlines, as well as having inaccurate information in there. There is nothing newsworthy here,” wrote British Army Captain Hannah Graf on twitter.

“It’s a piece of quite irresponsible journalism. When there’s a story about transgender people and the story is that they are transgender and nothing else, then it’s not a story. It’s not more relevant than saying there are three women in the army in Germany.

“There’s a lot of soldiers in Germany, so it’s not particularly surprising that there may be more than one transgender soldier [in one regiment]. That’s just basic statistics.”

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