Petition: Tell IPSO we need truthful crime reporting where sex is concerned. ​

[Glinner]

Hello! We've started a petition to ask that IPSO change its guidelines on the reporting of trans-identified males who have committed violent crimes and/or sex crimes. It is an insult that these male crimes are being pinned on women. Let's see if we can do something about it.

www.change.org/p/i-tell-ipso-we-need-truthful-crime-reporting-where-sex-is-concerned?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_28830356_en-GB%3A8&recruiter=3031805&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=share_petition

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Excellent idea. It absolutely boils my piss every time I see this kind of false crime reporting

Signed. I wish I could share but it would risk my job. It's ridiculous that asking for accurate crime statistics could bring me to professional ruin, but here we are.

Sex is a protected characteristic, and UK law states rape can only be carried out by a biological male. We really shouldn't have to protest this kind of inaccuracy, but it just proves there is a hierarchy in which women come off worse.

I don't believe anyone with a conviction for a violent crime should be permitted to change their legal name or gender.

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/woman-attacks-nhs-workers-after-20564789

There's another one today, although the headline has been changed to say patient (it did say women this morning). She/her still used throughout.

The people of Liverpool aren't buying it though

Thanks Glinner.

Signed. The public is entitled to accuracy in reports and journalists should not be forced to tell lies in them. And crime statistics based on false information are worthless.

Thanks.

The misreporting of sex when a criminal is trans is obviously terrible for skewing violent crime stats and therefore potentially impeding any effort to actually sort the HUGE problem that male violence poses. As well as potentially putting lives at risk when an offender is on the run and an accurate description is not issued.

But it also really draws negative attention to transwomen in a way which one would have thought trans activists (who are not necessarily trans themselves) would be concerned about. I never hear trans activists denounce these criminals as "not really trans" either. Which is genuinely odd because I would put money on a certain percentage of self reported transwomen criminals being mere chancers trying anything to claim mitigating circumstances.

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The wiki page on IPSO says The Editors' Code deals with issues such as accuracy, ....

The current guidelines quite evidently don't lead to accurate reporting. They are not fit for purpose on this most fundamental point.

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Of course the other even more important related issue is crimes being recorded by the police by 'identity' rather than objectively by sex.

One would expect the press to be calling them to account for this rather than colluding.

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Done, thanks.

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Signed, thanks.

Signed and donated for it to be shared more. We should be able to trust the press to give us basic truthful information, like the real sex of perpetrators of violent and sexual crimes. Any crimes, in fact.

Signed. Thanks

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Signed. No reason why they couldn't report natal sex. Right to privacy (on which the whole business of not "deadnaming" etc is based) is very much caveated as follows, so using natal sex could easily be justified by both police and press, or indeed any public authority (thinking of courts too):

Article 8 of the Convention, which provides:

“1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.

1. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.”

Signed and donated for more reach.

Thank you. Signed & shared.

Signed and shared

Ta, done.

Signed.

Signed and chipped in. Thanks Glinner.