The press continue to report violent and sex-based crimes committed by trans women as though they're committed by women, referring to the perpetrators as "she" and "her". This makes a nonsense of sex-based reporting, and of the statistics relating to these crimes – which are overwhelmingly committed by men. At the Glinner Update they're organising a petition to get IPSO, the independent press regulator, to change its guidelines on transgender reporting:
We can no longer trust the press to report on something as basic as the sex of violent criminals and sex offenders.
Over the past few years there have been innumerable news stories which demonstrate the appalling lies told in crime reporting when suspects and perpetrators claim to ‘identify as a woman’.
Rapists, murderers, paedophiles and voyeurs are being described as women, and even ‘female’, if that’s how they identify, with their true sex concealed from the public.
Read on for details of actual cases. Or see Fair Play for Women's history of their engagement with IPSO.
And sign the petition.
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