BBC News does not inform readers cat killer and murderer Scarlett Blake is transgender in this article. I intend to complain to ofcom. These are not our crimes.

It should always be recorded by biological sex, however I think it's also relevant to record the transgender identity of both victims and perpetrators, so any patterns in the data can be observed.

Both victims and perpetrators. Biological sex should be used in all official capacities.

I wonder if they get sentenced as harshly as women for murder? I seem to remember people get foamy mouthed at female murderers and they get longer sentences. I know women are imprisoned for things men get community service for (food theft etc). I guess the more of these that happen the more data we will have.

Curious if OP also takes the same approach with ethnic minorities or perhaps the disabled. If they commit crimes, does she also require a disclaimer because they’re not “her” crimes?

Don't be silly. Scarlet Blake is a man. Not a woman. The media needs to tell the truth.

Do explain how you know the OP is not from an ethnic minority background or doesn't have a disability?

Quite some assumptions you made there.

Weird whataboutery.

By making it look like a woman killed a cat and a human when in fact a man did.

Women don't commit crimes like that' So you've never heard of Myra Hindley, Beverly Allitt, Lucy Letby, the various female guards at Nazi concentration camps et al

Female murderers overall, let alone sexual sadists, are extremely rare. Most evidence suggests that MTFs have a male pattern of crime.

To be angry that Scarlet Blake is being called a woman. http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/5014437-to-be-angry-that-scarlet-blake-is-being-called-a-woman

'Women don't commit crimes like that' So you've never heard of Myra Hindley, Beverly Allitt, Lucy Letby, the various female guards at Nazi concentration camps et al

@ArabellaScott thread in AIBU demonstrates that this was happening on Friday when he was convicted and has carried on until the sentencing today. People following the court case only found out for sure (though many people suspected) when Blake himself was on the stand.

Women would prefer not to be blamed for gruesome sexual crimes that men have committed. I can’t claim to speak for all women but I supect most would agree with me.

I think that's true, but they are obviously misrepresenting the truth by referring to him as a woman (and his "girlfriend" in America who he was trying to impress who stitched him up who is also a man) and they are going to be called out on it. Interesting to see what will happen now.

Yes I agree with this. They have included the facts about him being biologically male right at the bottom to keep people reading/on the site longer. As most people reading will go ‘wow this is an unusual crime for a woman…..ahhh’

I feel like the media outlets have used woman as clickbait as it is such a shocking story for a female to have done this. If this story was reported as male, it would have been missed in the thousands of other violent crimes committed by men.

This.

What's bigger than stopping women's history being incorrect?
Why should women be tarred with mens crimes?

Yeah, however you stand on this issue I don’t even get the comparison that poster is making.

The equivalence would more be if they were reporting say a white killer and stating it was a black person or vice versa.

Or portraying a crime committed by a non-disabled person, as one committed by a disabled person.

Also by asking OP if she would want a disclaimer that those aren’t her crimes, she’s effectively assumed the Op is not an ethnic minority or disabled herself.

How does it slander women?

I personally think that once a crime is committed and sentencing reported they should be referred to in their biological sex by authorities and news outlets rather than whatever they choose.

Murder is a majority-male crime. This report makes it look like a woman did it when in fact a man did. This slanders women as a class.

They mentioned it then because her being trans was a main issue and cause in her death. This is not a trans issue which is why it’s not mentioned. It’s murder plain and simple.

Reporting on the crime includes reporting on the perp and victims. There is a public interest in reporting being accurate.

It does say this : The Ministry of Justice said Blake, who is transgender, would serve the sentence in a men's prison

But they’re not reporting incorrectly. They are reporting about the CRIME not the person.

Male. It's been mentioned on the thread.