This bit is not very reassuring:
”I am a co-author of the Judicial College’s Equal Treatment Bench Book (ETBB) and a member of its editorial panel. I sit on the Diversity Steering Committee of the Judges’ Council and I am a member of the Diversity Task Force”
The ETBB is responsible for the fact that if a rapist decides he is a woman then the court will require the victim to refer to the rapist as “she” and “her” on pain of being found in contempt of court.
Maria MacLachlan was required by the judge to use female pronouns when referring to the person who physically assaulted her. She complied but the judge decided she had done so with poor grace and docked her compensation accordingly.
”He (the judge) called my inability to comply with the request to pretend that my violent male assailant is a woman “bad grace”; he called the fact that, several weeks after the assault and prior to Wolf being arrested, I had tweeted an unkind joke about him, “foolish”. Apparently, I should have just put up and shut up and never mentioned him again. These, as far as I recall, were the factors he used to find me guilty of being too uppity to compensate.”
Continued at:
“The ostensible trial of Tara Wolf – Part 2”
www.peaktrans.org/blog-the-ostensible-trial-of-tara-wolf-part-2/
The ETBB also requires everyone else involved in the case, including the judge, to use female pronouns.
Newspaper reports of court cases have to accurately report the actual proceedings. It is the ETBB that leads to articles that are (apparently) about female rapists.