AIBU to think the media should report people’s actual sex—not preferred gender—in legal cases, courts, and crime reporting?

To make it clear, I always use ‘trans-identifying man’ for a male person who says he’s a woman, and ‘trans-identifying woman’ for a female person who says she’s a man.

Yes, this. The words transwoman and transman are confusing to most people, especially when people separate ‘trans’ from ‘woman’ or ‘man’ as if it’s an adjective like tall or French instead of meaning ‘actually the opposite sex’.

Most don't go through "gender reassignment surgery", or "GRN", but a pseudo penis can be put together with skin from elsewhere- usually the thigh. They can use a pump to make it erect.
I know a fair bit of the gory details because I've read so many books on the trans "craze". My brother was caught up in it over 20 yrs ago and went through full GRN. Regrets it now.

Material Girls by Kathleen Stock, is a very good one.

Yes it does affect the stats. The police are now obliged to register someone's sex as whatever they "identify as". This is how we've ended up with males "identifying as women" in women's prisons.
I recommend the book "The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht" by Susan Dalgety and Lucy Hunter Blackburn, about the women who campaigned against Nicola Sturgeon's "self identify" law- in which all one needs to do to change "gender" is to say you do, and get a Gender Recognition Certificate, and off you go.
The book gives a examples of how crime stats have been skewed.

In UK law at least -don't know what other countries have as a definition- rape is officially any penetration of the vagina, anus or mouth by a penis, therefore a woman can only be guilty as an accomplice.

At school we came up with an (unofficial) aide memoire: the XY has a little dangly bit, just like men do.

Lol sorry of course, I get xx and xy muddled sometimes 😅

I'm sure you meant to type

If you have a Y chromosome you are, and will always be, male. Whatever you wear or do to your body.

Thanks for your thoughts on this

BodyKeepingScore
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And anyone else who responded to my post.
Makes sense to me. As usual it comes down to chromosomes, whatever genitalia you have, attach, remove or adjust.

If you have an X chromosome you are, and will always be, male. Whatever you wear or do to your body.

YDNBU

No, because it would not be a penis. It would be a piece of flesh from the female person's arm or thigh, refashioned to create an appendage that looked like a penis, and transplanted to her groin. It would have some sort of balloon inside it, which would have to be pumped up to make it stiff enough for penetration. It would therefore come under the category of a different part of the body or an object. Not a penis.

Unconsenting penetration by a penis is a crime that only a male human can commit. Males are referred to as he or him.

You don’t think it matters to people that suddenly there’s a spike in allegedly female sex offenders?

Lawyer interjects: sexual assault by penetrating the mouth, anus or vagina with something that isn't a penis is assault by penetration.

100% agree.

And that thus is somehow seen as the 'progressive' thing to do 😵‍💫

It just defies belief that the courts, the police, the stats and the media are systematically and deliberately lying to us about male violence. It's enraging.

For example

"Transgender woman guilty of rape after night out"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckddgw0p8xvo

But sometimes they say transgender woman or transgender female. It's not clear.

And surely it’s a duty of reporting to be clear. But so far as trans is concerned, being as obfuscating as possible is the name of the game, and you have to ask why.

Very well expressed

You have to know you need to Google something in order to Google it.

If you assume that a trans woman is a woman who iIDs trans (rather than a man who IDs as trans) why would you Google it?

And surely it’s a duty of reporting to be clear. But so far as trans is concerned, being as obfuscating as possible is the name of the game, and you have to ask why.

A flesh tube made of arm grafted from their arm or thigh is not a penis.

So no.

And Google misses the point.

People look at the word and assume biological woman - they don't think to look it up.

You don't think it matters if the media are lying to us about the sex of people they're reporting on?

Seriously?

What else doesn't matter? Age? Area of the country? Incident they're involved in?

Why report at all if what you're reporting isn't true?