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I just read this and feel ill.

Fuck sake.

I saw the confusion about this play out on twitter with loads of very worried local women constantly asking the police how they were now supposedly safe because a woman had been arrested, when the attacks were all carried out by a man. Not understanding that this was a woman-identifying male, who evidently still looks, sounds, acts and dresses as if he were a man.

For me, there is still no clarity on the issue of the attacker.

I realise what the (reasonable) suspicions are. But in the absence of a clear statement and in the context of the earlier reports of the sex and age I think I'm still ignorant of what happened and who has been arrested (beyond the name and age).

@EmbarrassingAdmissions

For me, there is still no clarity on the issue of the attacker.

I realise what the (reasonable) suspicions are. But in the absence of a clear statement and in the context of the earlier reports of the sex and age I think I'm still ignorant of what happened and who has been arrested (beyond the name and age).

And that is the problem. The Police have fucked this up so badly. By consistently calling transwomen "women" it means that when they say an attack was carried out by a woman, the public have no way of knowing whether it is a female or a male attacker. The police have massively eroded trust over this.

For me, there is still no clarity on the issue of the attacker.

It'll be a man who did this.

East Dulwich, eh? This'll strike fear in certain demographics. Fond memories of home n hearth.

And that is the problem. The Police have fucked this up so badly. By consistently calling transwomen "women" it means that when they say an attack was carried out by a woman, the public have no way of knowing whether it is a female or a male attacker. The police have massively eroded trust over this.

Yes - irrespective of the facts in this individual case and whether the attacker was actually woman (unlikely)- the damage has been done. We don’t trust the police and can’t believe what they say. The police have done this. It’s their fault.

The police have massively eroded trust over this.

They are going backwards. To pre-Victorian times. And not just on female-led issues.

The whole thing is a concern, and not to diminish the horrible experience of what happened to these recent victims but it was the "bodily fluids" bit of the previous offence that really disturbed me. What is anyone not aware of this person's status supposed to make of that? They are obviously very unwell and a danger to women and children.

And (call me naive) where were the police when the woman who was attacked needed them? Why did it take days to come through after a violent assault like this? It's unbelievable.

It's time for the police to start reporting incidents like this as trans women at the very least. Public confidence is just washing away in the confusion

Yes.

The article is by JL, a woman whose work Graham Linehan regularly publishes.