Woman attacked by a Stag was transgendered

This is from the Telegraph today:
Cambridge University academic 'fighting for life' after being gored by giant stag

Kate Stone, 44, suffers life-threatening injuries in 'the most unlucky freak accident ever', after the stag appeared to single out the 6ft academic who was the tallest of the group

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A Cambridge University academic has suffered life-threatening injuries after being gored by a giant stag during a holiday in the Scottish Highlands.

Kate Stone was standing with a group of friends outside the home of a local musician at Lochailort, near Fort William, when the large animal appeared suddenly out of the darkness.

The Press and Journal reported that it appeared to single out 6ft-tall Ms Stone, the tallest of the group, and its antlers pierced her throat and went through to her spinal column.

It was feared that the 44-year-old, who was born a man but changed gender in 2007, could be left paralysed by the attack. A spokesman for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said she was in a "serious and stable condition" this afternoon but refused to comment further on the nature of her injuries.

After shaking its head to free itself, the stag vanished into the surrounding trees and moorland, leaving Ms Stone lying on the ground bleeding.

Her companions initially thought she had only been knocked down during the attack, which happened in the early hours of Monday morning, but quickly realised her injuries were more serious.
An ambulance was called from Mallaig, 15 miles away, and she was taken to the Belford Hospital in Fort William. Doctors there discovered her life-threatening injuries and she was flown by air ambulance for specialist treatment yesterday at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow.
Ms Stone and her friends had earlier been at a ceilidh in the nearby Lochailort Inn, where they met Jim Hunter, 50, a local musician who invited them back to his home.
He said: "There was a crowd of seven of us coming from the pub by torchlight. We were coming in to our garden and the stag had got in. The only way out was through the gate we were coming in and he panicked.
"He came right at us and right through us. We were all having a great time – it was just the most unlucky freak accident ever. There was blood coming from her neck and we took her inside.
“The paramedics came in about 20 minutes which is good as we are a bit isolated here, and gave her oxygen. They were fantastic. I don't think the animal deliberately attacked her. It was just panicking."
But a neighbour of Mr Hunter said: "I am very wary of the stags around here. I do not walk to my house – particularly at night.
"They do not always run away. They stand there facing up to you, pawing the ground in a threatening manner. The rutting season is over so now they have harems of hinds to jealously guard against other stags.
"Perhaps this woman was targeted because she was the tallest of the group and perceived by the stag as their leader and the most threatening to it."
Ms Stone has a PhD in physics and microelectronics and works as a research engineer at the University of Cambridge’s institute of manufacturing. She also set up a technology company, Novalia, which specialises in "making anything that's printed interactive”.
She was part of a multinational group of three men and four women on a three-day festive break at a local bed-and-breakfast owned by Gary Burton, 51, and his wife Kasia, 35. They had spent three days hill walking and enjoying the scenery.
Mr Burton, who runs the Mo-Dhachaidh Guest House, told the Press and Journal: "I understand Kate is critical in the hospital's intensive care unit.
"She was telling me she enjoyed the outdoors in the hills and camping on her own in remote places so any form of paralysis to such an active person will be a disaster. The incident is absolutely shocking and so unexpected.
"There are plenty of deer around here but you never hear of a stag attacking anyone. The force of the attack must have been ferocious. I went to the scene and found Kate's mobile phone smashed into tiny bits."
He said he and his wife found out about the attack when four of Ms Stone’s friends returned to the guesthouse in the early hours of yesterday morning in a “very shocked” state.
Peter Fraser, a retired gamekeeper from Aberdeenshire who has worked with deer for more than 40 years, said he had never heard of a similar attack before. He added: "For a stag to come out of the darkness like this and go for someone is highly unusual – a chance in a million.”
A Scottish Ambulance Service spokesman said confirmed it received a call at 12.04am yesterday and a woman was involved in the incident.
"Apparently a stag ran into her leaving her with neck, chest and arm injuries due to the animal's antlers,” he said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...iant-stag.html

I hope she recovers. Got to say when I saw the article on tv I assumed she was TS bit it made no mention in the story

May I ask why you made that assumption?

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Originally Posted by Stavros

May I ask why you made that assumption?

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Same question.
I read the headlines and saw the photo but didn't make that assumption.

Just from her picture and the descriptor of her. I just saw her and thought maybe she was TS, she actually looks familiar as someone I may have encountered on twitter

All I am thinking is how horrible it is to be stabbed by a horn.

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Originally Posted by Castor_Troy05

Just from her picture and the descriptor of her. I just saw her and thought maybe she was TS, she actually looks familiar as someone I may have encountered on twitter

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I don't think you would have known she was transgendered if the article did not mention it, in fact there was no need to mention it at all -at what point in someone's life does the condition of those early years take precedence over all that happens after? As for looks, believe me, if you spent time in the august colleges and institutes of learning in Cambridge University, you would encounter some people so strange you might wonder if this was planet earth. She is just a normal looking person, in a difficult place.

A friend of mine works with her and knew her in her former male guise too. Her change was no big deal as far as her colleagues were concerned, now all worried about her health.

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Originally Posted by Stavros

I don't think you would have known she was transgendered if the article did not mention it, in fact there was no need to mention it at all -at what point in someone's life does the condition of those early years take precedence over all that happens after? As for looks, believe me, if you spent time in the august colleges and institutes of learning in Cambridge University, you would encounter some people so strange you might wonder if this was planet earth. She is just a normal looking person, in a difficult place.

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i was thinking the same thing.
why even mention her ts status? it had nothing to do with the incident but the media does it for sensationalism.to me relying on someones gender to spice up an article that has nothing to do with gender is poor journalism

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Originally Posted by amberskyi

i was thinking the same thing.
why even mention her ts status? it had nothing to do with the incident but the media does it for sensationalism.to me relying on someones gender to spice up an article that has nothing to do with gender is poor journalism

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That made me do a bit of research into how the story had been reported. None of the broadcasters mentioned her transgender status, nor did the liberal end of the press.

But only the transphobic, woman-hating, vicious right-wing shit sheet the Daily Mail featured it in their headline "Transgender Cambridge academic seriously ill after being gored through the neck by a STAG during holiday in the Highlands." Just what value did that add to the story other than to titillate and possibly enrage the tiny proto-fascist minds that read it?

Evil bastards. :angry:angry:angry

I agree 100 percent with Robert and Stavros on this. Wholly irrelevant to report her transgendered status.