On October 18th, 2013, Essay Anne Vanderbilt, a male-to-female transgendered individual, committed suicide in her home. Caleb Hannan, a freelance journalist from Denver, has a direct hand in the events that led to her death, by unfairly and needlessly publishing articles outing her as a transgender individual. After he was notified of her death, he published another article distastefully and disdainfully dubbed a "Eulogy" in which he re-told his encounters with her. Caleb Hannan was investigating a new type of golf club invented by Vanderbilt, and after searching for her personal information, discovered she was lying about her degrees from MIT and the University of Pennsylvania, and furthermore, that she was born Stephen Krol. When Hannan confronted Vanderbilt with this information, he was begged not to publish it, and she pointed out that the process in which he found this information was illegal and via documents specifically intended not to be public. However, Hannan carelessly published this information anyways, stating that Vanderbilt was lying about being a woman, intentionally and deliberately using incorrect male pronouns to describe her. Hannan had every right to expose her false degrees, but the inclusion of her struggles with gender dysphoria had no place in his article and were unnecessary and malicious.

In Summary:

Caleb Hannan was investigating a new golf club invented by Dr. Vanderbilt, and discovered she was transgender, born male. Though this had nothing to do with his article and he was begged not to include it, he published this information publically, leading either directly or indirectly to Ms. Vanderbilts suicide a short time later.



The offending article

http://grantland.com/features/a-mysterious-physicist-golf-club-dr-v/

Ensure that this egregious violation of privacy and compassion will not happen again by issuing a public apology for Hannans unacceptable behavior, and ensuring that he will never have a place among Grantlands articles again.