Sun executives to meet transgender group after Kate Stone furore

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Senior executives at the Sun are to meet with campaign group All About Trans following the furore over the tabloid referring to scientist Dr Kate Stone as having a "sex swap" in a story about her being gored by a stag.

The meeting follows a landmark negotiation between the Press Complaints Commission and six newspapers – the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, the Sun, the Scottish Sun, the Daily Mirror and the Daily Record – after Stone lodged a complaint about the nature of the coverage.

The newspapers agreed that the "sex swap" headlines and the reference to Stone's transgender status were inappropriate and removed them from online.

The Sun's ombudsman Philippa Kennedy revealed on Radio 4's The Media Show that a meeting will take place with All About Trans, a project that arranges meetings between transgender people and the media and the entertainment industry, at the end of June.

She said that she hopes "something will come of that" and that "people's attitudes will change".

Kennedy said she was "personally a bit sad" as she had been contacted before the story was published and said she thought the transgender references breached the PCC code.

The story appeared after Stone was the victim of an attack by a stag while on holiday in Scotland in December last year.

She was badly injured and the story was widely covered.

However some of the stories mentioned she was transgender and included the headlines "Deer spears sex-swap Kate", "Sex swap scientist in fight for life" and "Sex-swap scientist gored by stag".

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