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Can anyone help me please, I want to make a (probably completely pointless) complaint to a newspaper *[Content warning: concerns child sex abuse]

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UnderHisAye · 12/04/2021 12:36

My local newspaper is reporting that this person has been convicted of downloading a video of a two year old being raped. This person also had searched online for information on raping and killing toddlers.

According to the sheriff's comments, this would usually mean a custodial sentence but ".I have to look at whether other options are available and in this case there are. “I will impose a Community Payback Order because of the exceptional circumstances involving mental health and various other reasons."

At a guess these mental health/exceptional circumstances are related to this person changing pronouns. They have also been subjected to the terrible fate of only being allowed ONE phone and laptop. Hmm

I want to complain to the news organisation about how they refer to this person who is legally male and, as far as I can tell, has no GRC. I'm not sure exactly how to come at it, although I feel they're complicit in gaslighting on an epic scale.

Does anyone have any text they've previously used which they could share with me?

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ScrollingLeaves · 15/04/2021 22:15

Rowantrees
“Finding the defendant guilty, the judge refused the victim compensation, saying that when asked to refer to the defendant as ‘she’, the victim had done so with ‘bad grace’ or continued to use ‘he’.”

That is one of the worst examples of abuse of a woman by the law I have ever heard.

ScrollingLeaves · 15/04/2021 22:05

“igivein

Might also be worth noting that the report says the downloaded video showed a toddler being raped by a woman.
You have to have a penis to rape someone.”

I too wondered if that rapist in the video was a trans woman.

But I read somewhere little boys can be raped by women using them and I so thought it might be that.

Poor, poor little boy.

Referring back to the OP, it is just beyond belief that the offence being reported was actually committed by a man.

It makes nonsense of the idea of reporting the truth.

Ravenclawsome · 15/04/2021 21:41

Paywall is selective I think. Some things are open and others are premium content for subscribers.

HoldontoOneMoreDay · 15/04/2021 20:41

@UnderHisAye

Oh is that right about the paywall? I subscribe (work purposes) so didn't know if it was or wasn't.
I couldn't get into the first article but the second linked straight through, so I think so.
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UnderHisAye · 15/04/2021 15:23

Don't be daft @BuffyTheSlavishIdeologySlayer just glad there's a wee bit of positivity to share Grin

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UnderHisAye · 15/04/2021 15:22

Oh is that right about the paywall? I subscribe (work purposes) so didn't know if it was or wasn't.

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BuffyTheSlavishIdeologySlayer · 15/04/2021 15:19

Sorry op, I just reposted the link. This thread disappeared for me and I thought it had been hijacked and subsequently zapped.
Didn't mean to steal your thunder!

HoldontoOneMoreDay · 15/04/2021 15:15

Note this isn't paywalled either. I'd take this as a win OP. The MurrayBlackburnMacKenzie team are total sheroes.

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UnderHisAye · 15/04/2021 15:15

You've gotta take it where you can get it right? It's slim pickings on the good news front, mostly.

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MrGordoThePig · 15/04/2021 15:01

Yes, I am feeling particularly angry about it all today because of the bullishness of certain visitors.
Sunlight through the clouds and all that.

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UnderHisAye · 15/04/2021 14:59

It is, isn't it? It feels like a tiny ray of something. Surely not hope?

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MrGordoThePig · 15/04/2021 14:53

I think you should post this separately op, it's good to see you have made a difference through positive action.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 15/04/2021 14:49

@UnderHisAye

That's the one!

I'm so pleased.

Smile

Me too.

I was worried it was going to be an opinion piece along the lines of "some bigots believe this because they are bigots".

So refreshing to see an actual, proper piece published.

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UnderHisAye · 15/04/2021 14:47

That's the one!

I'm so pleased.

Smile
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MrGordoThePig · 15/04/2021 14:42

That's a great article. I'm tempted to post it on my social media. It would out me as GC though...

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 15/04/2021 14:27

And it's an excellent article Grin

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UnderHisAye · 15/04/2021 12:23

Don't know yet @Ravenclawsome but I'm glad that they're at least going to attempt to tackle it. Just crossing my fingers it strikes a tone we're happy with.

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Lifeaintalwaysempty · 15/04/2021 12:18

*lost

Lifeaintalwaysempty · 15/04/2021 12:18

This thought policing feels like a relentless attack where the aim is to beat us into submission. The biological sex of an offender is very obviously relevant, especially for sex offences. We have a big problem coming down the road where crimes are being recorded as gender identity without a GRC, we will have no way of proving that the inevitable increase in sex offences and violent crimes by women is because of transgender individuals. Transparency of this crucial data is being lists.

Ravenclawsome · 15/04/2021 12:10

Whose opinion though? And on what side of the argument?

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UnderHisAye · 15/04/2021 10:59

UPDATE: The Courier are running an opinion piece on this issue today or tomorrow Grin

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transbadger · 14/04/2021 12:37

[quote R0wantrees]May 2019 Daily Mail:
"Judges are ordered to allow transgender defendants to be addressed as the gender of their choice during court appearances
New guidelines say 'self-definition is the most important criteria', judged told
Courts should respect a person's gender identity by using appropriate names
Rules published in a new edition of the Equal Treatment Bench Book"

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7047897/Judges-ordered-allow-transgender-defendants-addressed-gender-choice.html[/quote]

Ugh.

But thanks for always being a treasure trove of links and information @R0wantrees

🦡🌈🤍

R0wantrees · 14/04/2021 12:07

May 2019 Daily Mail:
"Judges are ordered to allow transgender defendants to be addressed as the gender of their choice during court appearances
New guidelines say 'self-definition is the most important criteria', judged told
Courts should respect a person's gender identity by using appropriate names
Rules published in a new edition of the Equal Treatment Bench Book"

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7047897/Judges-ordered-allow-transgender-defendants-addressed-gender-choice.html

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UnderHisAye · 14/04/2021 11:56

Interesting, I'd never heard of that before.

I'm not sure that last line wasn't a pleasant closing sentence, i.e. I have done my job in responding now off you pop please. The Courier isn't really the hard-hitting issues-led investigative sort of journalism. I live in hope!

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