So many men do this because it separates themselves from their crimes and it really pisses me off.
One of the things about prison is you’re meant to accept responsibility for your actions and be sorry for them.
Creating a brand new identity isn’t going that.
If he wants to call himself a she, that’s fine.
But the reporter, courts and prison staff should not be doing the same.
It is not going to cause him any harm to be called a he and called by his first name even if he was ‘born in the wrong body’.
How is this even allowed.
When looking at the statistics of sex or aggressive crimes, they are going to be completely wrong.
We use the statistics to try and make things better. How can we do this if everyone’s just lying about who they are.