Have now found it!
Pronouns in the press
SIR – In your report (<a class="break-all" href="https://archive.ph/o/Lb9k2/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/30/paedophile-changes-gender-sophie-carter-court/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">August 31) on the sentencing hearing of the convicted paedophile Dominic Carter, you initially called him “she”. We note the reference to “she” was removed from a later version of this story, following hundreds of disapproving comments by your readers.
It is frankly disgraceful that it was ever allowed. The crime was committed by a man, not a woman. The use of she to refer to this man is incredibly offensive to women, and illustrates the problem of accepting that anyone can be any sex they feel they are.
Crucial debates on policy have gone unreported as newspapers and other media failed to address these issues for fear of causing offence and of incurring the wrath of activist lobby groups or even regulators.
Referring to this man, and other male criminals, as women both demeans women and gives credence to the delusion that applying pink nail varnish and a headband makes one a woman.
Your readers deserve better. Journalists must report the truth, without fear or favour.
Baroness Deech KC (Crossbench)
Lord Sandhurst KC (Con)
Lord Young of Norwood Green (Lab)
Baroness Thornhill (Lib Dem)
Baroness Fleet (Con)
Baroness Jenkin of Kennington (Con)
Baroness Stedman-Scott (Con)
Lord Wasserman (Con)
Baroness Meyer (Con)
Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated)
Lord Lucas (Con)
Lord Strathcarron (Con)
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (Con)
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (Con)
Baroness Lea of Lymm (Con)
Lord Roberts of Belgravia (Con)
Baroness Bray of Coln (Con)
Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con)
Baroness Noakes (Con)
Lord Moylan (Con)
Baroness Foster of Oxton (Con)
Earl of Leicester (Con)
Baroness Eaton (Con)
Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con)
Baroness Seccombe (Con)
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