‘Woman’ missing in Southampton

Hopefully Sam will turn up and get the mental health support he so clearly needs.

It must be awful to go through life in a way that leads you to think like this.

I hope this man is found safe and well.

It's a counterfactual narrative, who knows if this person had not been fed lies, he wouldn't be under the mistaken impression he was a woman and if his real mental health issues had been addressed he might not be missing now.
Join the dots.

@TransParentlyAnnoyed
Have you stopped to think about the damage this may do to her mental health?
Funny how the mental health of women is never taken into account when men want to use their showers and changing facilities.
Or wish to be placed in the female part of the prison estate.
Or... (it's a long list)

I hope this person is found safe and well, and gets the care he needs.

Those two things - not wanting men in women's spaces, and wanting a missing person to turn up - are not mutually exclusive.

Spare me the emotional blackmail and cry bullying, you're shamelessly exploiting the situation to pontificate, yet again, on your hobbyhorse. It's your concern that's fake, you're using it as a cover to spread hate and justify criminal behaviour.

Other posters have raised legitimate concerns about this man being called a women, if the police are asking the public to help them find him, they should make it clear they're looking for a him. The fact that you can't recognise that as genuine concern is because you're not capable of such an emotion.

Not so. People can go missing in minutes. Especially vulnerable people (albeit more likely to be urgent in the case of a young child or very elderly person obv ).

Has anyone seen this cat?

I would assume that the police have more knowledge about the situation and perhaps this person is very vulnerable. Maybe by describing him as a woman will calm his brain. The important thing is he is found safely not how he is described so I'm all for anything that will bring them back safely

Calling him a bloke in a dress isn’t ’being judgmental’, it’s just stating facts. He is a bloke, wearing a dress. If facts offend you then that’s a you problem.

Quite.

Or perhaps they'll be looking for the person identified in the picture? Generally that's how it goes when someone is missing. Or do you think people ignore the picture and start looking for any woman?

Remember the one a few years ago, police appealing for information regarding missing woman, who sometimes dresses as a man, with a cctv picture of a very obvious man.
I hope this person turns up safe and sound.

I thought it must be time to be scolded. Like clockwork.

The person saying he is probably wearing 'trad female clothes' is a TRA.

So maybe have a pop at them?

There's a picture - it won't hamper it at all. And calling her a 'bloke in a dress' is being judgmental. If you wish to that awful - just own it.

This is a missing person. She is described as a woman - and there's a picture. It doesn't matter for crying out loud. This is as bad as those who decided to harass an account for featuring a trans woman who had been murdered because she 'wasn't a woman'. Only she wasn't trans - she just didn't perform femininity enough for the rabid transphobes. The only thing that matters here is that this trans woman is found - not you lot policing language to hamper that.

Perhaps because some so called allies see everything as transphobia? Dress the slightest digression and even genuine concerns as hatred. It seems it's most often allies telling people with trans identities that the world hates them and wants them to die.

Because she's a trans woman, will likely be wearing trad 'female' clothing and answers to that name.

Because she's clearly vulnerable and disrespecting her is going to add to her distress.

Have you stopped to think about the damage this may do to her mental health? Being judgemental about her appearance is likely to cause her a lot of pain.

She has done absolutely nothing to deserve all this malicious attention.

Spare me the fake concern, this is point-and-laugh bullying disguised as caring. She doesn't deserve this and neither do her family. No wonder so many trans people are driven to suicide and targeted for violence.

Worrying if he was last seen on the embankment.

Fingers crossed for him. At least the Police nonsense means it's getting more publicity than your normal missing person.

I would guess Samantha is a vulnerable adult

That’s one possibility.

New image makes me wonder whether there's a possibility he's run away to detransition... Or, possibly the police are not looking for him just with his own interests in mind?
uk.news.yahoo.com/images-released-search-missing-southampton-074111434.html

I would guess Samantha is a vulnerable adult, and the photo is the important part anyway