Is this a man or a woman?

Are the news papers in Canada trying to show how shit this situation is by using a photograph of someone who is clearly male? I really hope they are.

This needs to be in AIBU in order to reach the maximum number of people.

Of course he's a man. Complete with penis. To pretend otherwise is Emperor's New Clothes. That poor, poor child.

There were a number of twitter posts in recent days, all basically calling people out for being deranged and phobic over dildo monkey. And often screenshotting MN posts to highlight their points.

Will be interesting to see whether any of them give their feedback on this subject.

My question disappeared after about two minutes.

Very well put, beowulfa

Yes Beowulfa I have just asked a question in AIBU to see what women think.

By moving this thread, MNHQ are implying it's some sort of esoteric discussion about the finer points of feminism, maybe with some long words from sociology and suchlike.

This is a parenting site, and this topic is about child safeguarding. Specifically, about how an elected government has deliberately failed a six year old.

Ask yourself who benefits when discussions about child safety are quietly moved by anonymous demand. Ask what your child's school is teaching. Ask about safeguarding policy at every opportunity. Ask awkward questions. Be difficult. The vulnerable are failed when we do not question everything.

That there is a man.

A lot of posters aren’t concerned with transwomen and their everyday lives

This may change for some posters when sports, awards and refuges come up or reporting of crimes

And it definitely changes for me with self ID and men like the above

YeahItsMeAgain Depression is a normal response to abuse when you are in a position of helplessness.
Focus on your self care right now, and take a step back.

This is all getting too much. Honestly. My days are dragged down by this - I’m genuinely feeling totally hopeless. What are other people’s coping mechanisms for all this? I’ve tried ignoring it all but it’s so wrong - I can’t. I feel so backed into a corner. And powerless. And... words fail me now.

Sorry but I haven’t even got the energy to be angry about it anymore. I’ve got an appointment with my GP. Hoping they can give me something to help me walk through my life being content to keep my mouth shut about all this.

Maybe I shouldn’t have posted here though. Probably belongs on the Mental Health board? Apologies if I’ve offended anyone.

There is too often on this site an attitude that labels all trans people as sex offenders

No, there really isn’t. The entire point is people like Ruby here. The entire point is that there are dangerous, violent men hiding behind a trans identity. The entire point is that an ideology that says that “being a woman” can be a feeling in a man’s head was a being used/abused to dilute protections that women and children have to keep the Rubys of this world out of places where we’re vulnerable.

I’m sure your clients were lovely, but Ruby obviously isn’t. It makes me sad that this abused child is being gaslit like this.

This is where pronoun politeness gets us. When I saw that picture I thought (again) that organisations are absolutely terrified of being accused of transphobia but completely unconcerned about being accused of sexism. Sexism is so endemic it's just background noise. Demonizing a group on the bottom of a hierarchy (women) as criminals is a classic tactic of oppression. I'm beginning to think it's going to take women rioting or becoming terrorists to get them to take us seriously, but then again we end up court for suffragette ribbons, so perhaps not.

It is statistically SO unlikely to be a woman who carried out this crime that the balance of probability is always going to be that it's a man.
Whoever just wrote "lol" on a thread about an assaulted 6 year old child can shove it up their ass.

Most people here wouldn't deny that genuine transgender people exist.

It is simply that you cannot differentiate between the genuine and the opportunists.

Third safe spaces, which do not put either vulnerable group at risk would be the ideal solution.

The problem is with people who try and manipulate the system. There ought to be a better way

There is.

Record the sex. Its sexed bodies doing the physical.assulting after all

What if the reporter is very GC and it's a woman living as a man? Lol. You would have what you want and you wouldn't even know it. Devils advocate