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Isla Bryson asked for £5,000 over 'deadnaming'

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ArabellaScott · 31/01/2023 12:25

www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/10132920/trans-double-rapist-isla-bryson-criticised-nicola-sturgeon/

BT apparently misgendered Isla, and she went to the papers about it:

'She said: “I have been asking them to change my name for almost a year but I keep getting letters with my dead name on it.

“I sent proof of my gender identity but it hasn’t made a difference. I’m sick of being treated like a second class citizen.”

BT apologised for the mix-up and offered Bryson £140. But she said: “It’s had a seriously emotional effect on me. They’ve tried to buy me off but I said I wanted £5,000 in compensation.”'

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NicolaSturgeonsSOGIbottom · 31/01/2023 15:07

ErrolTheDragon · 31/01/2023 14:35

I assume that's in large part to hide the tattoos, it does look weird and dodgy.

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With the shiny, completely bald head beneath, the man-size head in a woman-size wig and the jaunty, tattoo-covering angle, I find myself wondering how on earth the thing doesn’t slide right off and land in his lap?

FrancescaContini · 31/01/2023 14:56

Oh boo hoo for this MAN

caramac04 · 31/01/2023 14:54

OnlyTheWeedsGrow · 31/01/2023 12:43

He can have 5000 fuck offs instead.

Then I really am out of fucks to give about the gender ideology bullshit.

Spot on 😂😂😂😂

NeighbourhoodWatchPotholeDivision · 31/01/2023 14:52

It took months and calls from two separate (living) members of the family to get BT to stop charging my husband's DEAD grandmother. She had been buried a long time before it was sorted.

I think her children would like compensation please!

EzzieM · 31/01/2023 14:37

ErrolTheDragon · 31/01/2023 14:35

I assume that's in large part to hide the tattoos, it does look weird and dodgy.

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Oh I assumed the face-hiding is to make it easier for him to reoffend when he’s released. 😔

EzzieM · 31/01/2023 14:35

On what basis does the rapist want £5000?

Using someone’s birth name, (instead of whatever today’s alias is) is not a crime in the UK.

Harassment is a crime, but one that is almost never prosecuted (unless it is a trans person feeling harassed, in which case, the police will be on it immediately).

But nonetheless, the British police, notorious for having little grasp of the actual law, sometimes say that using the birth name of a transperson is harassment and is therefore a crime.

I’d really like some clarity on this. Is so-called ‘deadnaming’ and ‘misgendering’ illegal in the UK? I don’t see how it can be, but transpeople and sometimes the police behave as if it is.

In writing the above, I have been careful to refer to the rapist as the rapist to avoid causing the rapist offence. 🙄

ErrolTheDragon · 31/01/2023 14:35

BringItOn2023 · 31/01/2023 14:29

Noticed how he always wears his hair to cover his face. Not sure why that bothers me.

I assume that's in large part to hide the tattoos, it does look weird and dodgy.

BringItOn2023 · 31/01/2023 14:29

Noticed how he always wears his hair to cover his face. Not sure why that bothers me.

AnyFucker · 31/01/2023 14:28

Haha good one, Adam. You’re a funny guy, for sure.

ReunitedThorns · 31/01/2023 14:26

IcakethereforeIam · 31/01/2023 12:54

So, while he was awaiting trial for rape, he went to the newspaper about being 'dead named' on a 'phone bill? The brass neck of this guy!

Of course the newspaper may not have made the connection because he would have been charged in his male name.

Or rather to provide "proof" that he was "living as a woman" to court if there was a newspaper article about how difficult his transition was.

I think this was all part of the plan to get off of the rape charges.

ResisterRex · 31/01/2023 14:23

It's not a previous name! He's not legally changed!

ErrolTheDragon · 31/01/2023 14:23

What fucking "proof" of his gender identity could be possibly have??

Some other utility bill with the new name.

ErrolTheDragon · 31/01/2023 14:22

Isn't one of the (maybe the only concrete?) criteria for someone having 'changed gender' for the requisite 3 months prior to getting a GRC in Scotland that you can show you've changed your title/name on a utility bill?

feellikeanalien · 31/01/2023 14:20

I quite often get called by my late DPs surname even though we never got married. Maybe I should make a claim!!

Johnnysgirl · 31/01/2023 14:19

he, not be

Johnnysgirl · 31/01/2023 14:19

ArabellaScott · 31/01/2023 12:25

www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/10132920/trans-double-rapist-isla-bryson-criticised-nicola-sturgeon/

BT apparently misgendered Isla, and she went to the papers about it:

'She said: “I have been asking them to change my name for almost a year but I keep getting letters with my dead name on it.

“I sent proof of my gender identity but it hasn’t made a difference. I’m sick of being treated like a second class citizen.”

BT apologised for the mix-up and offered Bryson £140. But she said: “It’s had a seriously emotional effect on me. They’ve tried to buy me off but I said I wanted £5,000 in compensation.”'

What fucking "proof" of his gender identity could be possibly have??

Starlitexpress · 31/01/2023 14:14

It's not a "dead name", it's a previous name, the use of this ridiculous emotive language is not doing anyone any favours.

Have a friend who's surname was changed by deed poll (I assume that is what this person did or did they just do it unofficially? ), any forms that ask for previous names she just puts it down and sends off a photocopy if they need for their records.......actually maybe she should start claiming offence and demanding money!

YouJustDoYou · 31/01/2023 14:07

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 31/01/2023 13:29

I've had my (very British) surname misspelled
I've been addressed in work documents as 'Dear Sir' - hell, I've been called 'Sir' F2F (I have short hair) when I was buying the Times because 'it's usually men who buy the Times.' 🤔
I've been called Mrs when I'm not.
I've talked to overseas colleages who called me by my surname because the convention in their country is surname then first name so they assumed my surname was my first name

Can I have my thousands for hurtyfeelz plz?

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We do alllllll the time. Think, our family name is Hasegawa and we get Hansegunta, Jasewawa, Hasegumwa etc. We just eye roll....maybe I should sue for hurty feelz too though....

NicolaSturgeonsSOGIbottom · 31/01/2023 14:03

OnlyTheWeedsGrow · 31/01/2023 12:45

How long was it between the arrest and the court case? He didn’t see the gender fairy lights until after arrest…

Way too bloody long!

Second rape was 2019. Victim reported straight away. Not sure how long it took for the charge to be brought but as there was a witness (victim’s mum heard it) and forensics it must’ve been much easier to get to the charging stage than is typical for rape, (and the earlier rape became the second charge).

Presumably it’s taken at least two years to reach the top of the courts list, and then it was temporarily delayed at the end of last year (iirc?)

Court delays are a fucking nightmare and it’s not just letting grifters grift, but also giving men charged with rape enough time to sign up for sodding beauty courses.

Backstreets · 31/01/2023 14:02

He's a peaking machine!

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ArabellaScott · 31/01/2023 13:59

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/mum-vows-isla-bryson-never-29075592

More details emerge. Bryson has fathered three children. I feel for all the women he has harmed and the children he's left without support.

This also illustrates the problem with 'the tiny number of people' argument. One man - how many women's lives has he damaged?

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ArcaneWireless · 31/01/2023 13:56

Alas, I am not in the humour for tidying my given fucks nicely away.

Therefore my fucks will be expressed through mobile eyebrows and sneery lip. On show for everyone to see.

A bit like ‘little Isla’ was in that pink lycra.

£5k by Christ for hurty feelies.

Nope. You can fuck that sky high.

334bu · 31/01/2023 13:53

How many of these types of incident are also reported as so called hate crimes? How strange that there has seemingly been an increase I such incidents.

MintyChops · 31/01/2023 13:53

IcakethereforeIam · Today 12:54
So, while he was awaiting trial for rape, he went to the newspaper about being 'dead named' on a 'phone bill? The brass neck of this guy!

The brass balls on him more like.

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ArabellaScott · 31/01/2023 13:51

It seems to be a good example of how criminals are likely to try and abuse gender ideology as a way to gain. Whether financially or as a form of power play, it's clearly a system Isla Bryson has seen as an opportunity.

Just further demonstrating that 'abusive men have never needed to claim to be anything other than they are' is the horseshit it always has been.

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