The Daily Mail denounced by APC for article about alleged transgender criminal

June 20, 2017 5:26

The Daily Mail has been lambasted for failing to take reasonable steps to avoid contributing to prejudice and offence throughout an article about a transgender woman.

The article about the 24-year-old woman, Evie Amati, who is accused of stabbing two people with an axe at 7-Eleven, included superfluous images, personal Facebook comments and details of her partner, accompanied by images of her sister, mother and an unidentified man, according to the Australian Press Council.

‘Transgender woman, 24, accused of bludgeoning two innocent people with an axe at 7-Eleven was born as a boy named Karl – but had a sex change two years ago in Thailand to become Evie‘, was published by the Daily Mail Australia on January 10 this year.

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Abigail Dawson

Abigail Dawson was Mumbrella's senior content journalist covering event content. She left Mumbrella to move into an agency role in 2020.