This is misogyny in plain sight. It is a crime against women for men like this to be reported as and referred to in court as women. It is also a crime against free speech and all reason.
Our society is in dire, dire straits that this is the reality we live with now: that these lies are routinely accepted and acceptable, and are propagated by every single news outlet and the CJS itself.
That a handful of lobby groups who represent supposedly the “most marginalised, oppressed, vulnerable” people in the country actually had and have the the political clout and power to bring about changes as drastic and damaging to society as a whole, and especially to women and girls, with such ease as they did.
It is rotten to the core. If only women had the power and influence of these “vulnerable, marginalised” males; if only we were seen as being as human as they are. This would never have come about in the first place; or if it had, it would have been swiftly nipped in the bud and reversed.
Nic Williams at FPFW has taken this up with IPSO and has made some progress with individual publications but IPSO seems to be pretty intransigent on the whole. All that capture.
fairplayforwomen.com/ipso/