After a whole bunch of transphobic screeds in the media, this article is actually pretty benign by the standards of The Sun: (Yes, The Sun. You have been warned.)
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/lifestyle/4867253/pre-op-transgender-woman-takes-revenge-on-childhood-bully.html
They at least refer to Nicole as a woman throughout the article.
Of course, it doesn't hurt that Nicole is conventionally beautiful and very "passable".
This being The Sun, of course, they manage to turn her into an object, using gratuitous underwear shots to "prove" how feminine she is. But at least they are objectifying her fully as a woman, rather than presenting her as some kind of freak. And some would say points should be docked for the gratuitous inclusion of boypix and boyname; but some people are more comfortable than others with mention of their previous lives, and for all I know, maybe Nicole is cool with this.
So, yes, the article is misogynistic -- but it's not particularly transphobic, compared to how it could have been written. She is only being beaten with one stick, instead of two. I would love to think this is a sign, however dim, that we should hope for better.
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