BBC Article updated with details "A man who admitted sending a number of threatening hoax emails to three girls schools, threatening to target pupils and staff over the "misgendering" of trans girls, has been jailed."

I suppose someone will be keeping tabs on him?

Maybe the "confusion" between the court reporters and those who actually wrote the original story was that the court reporters had actually written about the Truth, and the writers couldn't handle the Truth (where's that gif when you need it?) so chopped it up into something Resembling the Truth.

Or what you said.

Blimey, that was a bit terse, wasn't it.

Terrifying to think he will be back on our streets in two years, threatening women and girls again, or worse.

The additions/explanations do seem to make up an entire article in themselves. I'm picturing the new DG getting ahold of the complaints and the original article, reading it, going "FFS" then grabbing the nearest senior editor, saying "get down to the Alphabetti desk and Sort It Out." (or some such scenario, reminiscent of His Girl Friday. Complete with typewriters. The manual kind. ) 😁

Begs the question – why aren't the reporters in court the writers?

Is it to do with the fact the BBC employs multitudes of highly-paid reporters for TV and radio who aren't qualified to cover court cases online?

Another story for GB News , Tommy , Farage etc to ignore

I’ve never seen an edit note like that before. Obviously should have been right first time but good it was changed.

Oh I think I get it: "fake trans" hurt only trans-identified people, but "hoax gender" hurt everyone else indiscriminately? Is that right?

(BTW, do they have their own dictionary, in order to keep all this straight, so to speak? Or is it all in their heads? I'm really not trying to be facetious here, I'm just wondering now, who's driving this bus?)

Someone thought something mean. A girl obviously.
All those girls effortlessly exercising their girl privilege to be girls, and gatekeep their schools, races and toilets. Bitches! They had it comin’.

I think the logic is:

Men won't pretend to be trans or wrongly believe themselves trans to gain access to women for sexual drivers, oh no nono they never would. Sure men will exploit and fetishise almost anything you can imagine, but they won't do that.

But bad actors will pretend to be trans in order to discredit trans people. Oh definitely for sure. Those people have no shame.

So yes fake trans might exist, but only for reasons that hurt trans people and mean we need to take even more special care of them. No extra risks for women at all.

I think you'd have to ask the activists. It's something some have noticed being used recently, and although it's not an entirely new concept, I've never seen "fake trans" being acceptable to activists. Maybe others have?

The "hoax-gender " seems to have increased in popularity at the same rate that crime by "trans" people has been increasing in reportage (using quotes here to indicate that it seems a lot of trans-identfied people don't consider any criminal to be really trans). It can no longer be hidden, so must be explained away.

It doesn't, however, sit entirely comfortably alongside "I am trans if I say I am" and we still see activists on these threads caught out by this. Just another sign of the ideology becoming more of a Hydra, in my opinion.

Is "hoax gender" the same as "fake trans"? Those have always been what I was worried about: men saying "I identify as a woman" and needing nothing more to gain access to women and girls in vulnerable situations which are supposed to be single sex, women-only places (rape crisis centres, prisons, hospital wards, changing rooms, and yes, public lavatories).

Retaliation about what wrong done to him, though? I don't think that bit is entirely clear.

I haven't seen such a comprehensive update/non-apology from the BBC in years. It seems as though Hoax-Gender may have finally landed on the LGBTETC desks at the Corporation as an "acceptable get out clause."

due to miscommunication between BBC reporters in court and the writers.

My. ass.

Ah, Hoax-Gender. It's the new Rapist Gender. AKA "we don't like the look of this one, let's pretend he's nothing to do with us."

I wonder how many complaints it took to get the updated version posted…

That sounds as if the original.report left out virtually everything. Did it just say 'Man jailed'.

‘Poor lamb got a bit upset and did something naughty in retaliation’.

Well, that certainly does seem to contain rather more detail than some previous reporting.

Yup, found the thread.
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5538270-darren-rigby-case-salient-details-left-out-of-reporting?reply=152718115

And we got some loon or other claiming that his being trans might be the hoax, quite forgetting that anyone who says he is trans is trans, no debate.

That update sounds like... everything people asked for at the time? Is this the first time there's been such a comprehensive response from the BBC?

Anyway, I'm glad this violent young man has been stopped before more harm was caused, but obviously it's really depressing that people are doing this in the first place.