Adinnieken said:
First of all, this person wouldn't be or shouldn't be a candidate for sex reassignment, nor does it sound like he (if merely a TV) or she (if on hormone replacement theraphy) was mentally or emotionally stable enough for it.
Rather than outing the individual for the cheap thrills of breaking a scam, the writer should have dug into the deeper story of this person, why they were so desperate to undergo sex reassignment surgery without following the SOP for a transexual.
Generally speaking to go through sex reassignment, you first have to consult with a psychologist, then begin hormone replacement therapy, and after living for a period of time (a year?) as a 100% female, undergo sex reassignment surgery. The reason this approach is taken is for many men this is a kink, a fantasy/fetish, and to undergo the surgery as well as the hormone replacement means a lot of physical as well as emotional changes one may or may not be prepared for.
The sex drive alone undergoes a drastic change while on hormone replacment therapy, having a "vagina" doesn't restore the male libido. Not to mention, if you have emotional problems, those aren't going to go away overnight. They'll only get worse.
It was a missed opportunity to approach a bigger story, which could have had a greater impact than breaking a story about a scam perpetrated by someone that was clearly emotionally troubled. Should he be fired, no. Not unless something happens to the individual as a result of his outing him. However, he should have been smarter about the whole thing and approached it from a different angle.
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You are assuming quite a lot. Firstly, that Pinsof did this for a cheap thrill rather than to get something off his chest (namely, that Sagal was blackmailing him into silence by threatening suicide). He seemed legitimately distraught and didn't go the Kotaku route and write a clickbait article, he just told what he knew on Twitter. Secondly, you assume that there would have been less backlash from any type of article - no matter how high-minded - in which Pinsof still "outed" Sagal. I think that is a pretty huge assumption.
