Scot flashed her penis and used sex toy in public leaving onlookers shocked, from the Daily Record

Right, well it was just a light joke about the phrase 'working in the wind turbine industry' being a euphemism, in response to the post about 'originally from Glasgow' being one.

Sorry - I didn't mean you. I was commenting about the defendant's solicitor who refers to the defendant's optimism about being able to work in the industry that is interesting to the defendant plus wanting to join the Army Reserves.

"She's very optimistic she will be able to gain employment in an industry she is very interested in," said Mr McGloin.

Thompson has also served in the armed forces, he explained, and was hoping to join the Army Reserve force.

No serious point meant.

I actually think that the reporting on this is quite good as right at the start it mentions a woman exposing her penis and later on witnesses seeing a male in a badly fitting wig and a rara skirt.

I suspect that a lot of the Daily Record readers will be wtf over this and I do think this was done deliberately.

Isn't it all grim? I suppose this is the future we have to look forward to. Heaven help women ending up in a hospital ward with him - sadly some NHS trusts have special policies to ensure that sex offenders like him get to share wards with ill women in hospital.

Also I think here in Ireland you can change your name legally and just become a female. How is that right. I am very open minded and do not care how anyone wants to live their life or dress but I do have a massive issue if men with penises are in women's spaces. This makes it so unsafe for women and what if these men are in female toilets and young girls in there. Shocking that all hidden here and most people none the wiser.

He must have found his 'ra ra' skirt in the back of his mother's wardrobe as I had one of those back in the 80's and thought I was so cool as my mum's friend had bought it for me abroad and it was lovely with my fall down ankle boots. I really did not know all about these issues until I read on here and was informed of that Irish male called Barbie Kardashian who was and is very violent and attacked a social worker while she was driving him and nearly took her eye out and tried to strangle her with is legs. He is now in a women's prison but this is not in the papers here so most Irish people do not know that males are in women's prison's and safe spaces etc. This needs to be made public as such a violent male who has attacked his own mother and another woman should not be locked up with women.

I think it's good to put it like that rather than say she then deliberately avoid specifying exactly what the person did with what part of their body

The vast majority of people who read it know the truth.

Sadly this isn't the court reporters fault. IPSO dictate preferred pronouns must be used. Emphasising the penis and making sure there's a picture is the only way they will be able to make it clear. (Even if it makes them look stupid)

How the fuck did we end up here?

"This never happens"

No true Scotsman eh. Literally in this case

Nice to see Anna Soubry calling it out: twitter.com/Anna_Soubry/status/1494356258882740234

🤯🤯
No words.

The difficulty the reporter will have had is that the defendant will have been referred to as ‘she/her’ throughout the court hearing, and reporters are obliged to report accurately what’s said in court.
I actually think they have done their best to make the position clear by choosing the quotes they have.

Notice how the 2 child witnesses are reported as describing him a female. Yeah sure.

Which is why I wonder how we complain about the IPSO stupidity.

I get that 'her penis' sounds like wrongspeak but I'm fully on-board with newspaper editors writing it. It's the only way to both follow IPSO guidance and actually tell readers what's going on.

I mean, if they need to, because this never happens aye?

Men expose their genitals.

Women expose their genitals.

Remarkably, the only genitals exposed are penises.

What a coincidence!

I don't know, but I think 'she has recently undertaken courses for working in the wind turbine industry' must be

I admire the optimism but I must express concern that this optimism extends to joining the Army Reserve as I'd be very unhappy if the forces were to recruit someone with such a recent history of sex offences. I would also have some concerns about interleaving the physical demands of being a reservist with the recovery that would be involved with reassignment surgeries.

One of the Facebook comments:

' If they're not wanting to offend anyone, and make it that they are a woman, why nor use genitalia which doesn't insinuate male or female areas?'

Of course, the fault lies with the newspaper for not using sensitive enough language.

This man should be locked up for a long time as very dangerous and the acts they were performing in public just gross. How dare they say 'her penis'..Why is this crime been put down as a female. This person/man needs to go to a man's prison as not safe for women if he goes to a female only prison. They need to either change this or have transgender prison. What the hell is going on in the world. If you have a penis you are a man. I truly think you should only legally be classified as transgender if you have penis removed and living like a woman.

It's been posted on the Daily Record Facebook page and all the comments are WTF at the concept of a female with a penis, especially one who uses it to commit serial sexual offenses.

Once they have no penis am fine with it but otherwise it is a safeguarding issue towards women. Are these men pretending to be transgender to try to get lighter sentences and to go to womens prisons, can anyone enlighten me.

Over 90% of males who 'transition' to 'live as a woman' retain their penises.

To answer your question - of course not, why on earth would a criminal lie just to get access to an easier prison, a lighter sentence and be around women?