Isla Bryson asked for £5,000 over 'deadnaming'

[ArabellaScott]

www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/10132920/trans-double-rapist-isla-bryson-criticised-nicola-sturgeon/

BT apparently misgendered Isla, and she went to the papers about it:

'She said: “I have been asking them to change my name for almost a year but I keep getting letters with my dead name on it.

“I sent proof of my gender identity but it hasn’t made a difference. I’m sick of being treated like a second class citizen.”

BT apologised for the mix-up and offered Bryson £140. But she said: “It’s had a seriously emotional effect on me. They’ve tried to buy me off but I said I wanted £5,000 in compensation.”'

he, not be

I quite often get called by my late DPs surname even though we never got married. Maybe I should make a claim!!

Isn't one of the (maybe the only concrete?) criteria for someone having 'changed gender' for the requisite 3 months prior to getting a GRC in Scotland that you can show you've changed your title/name on a utility bill?

What fucking "proof" of his gender identity could be possibly have??

Some other utility bill with the new name.

It's not a previous name! He's not legally changed!

Or rather to provide "proof" that he was "living as a woman" to court if there was a newspaper article about how difficult his transition was.

I think this was all part of the plan to get off of the rape charges.

Haha good one, Adam. You’re a funny guy, for sure.

Noticed how he always wears his hair to cover his face. Not sure why that bothers me.

I assume that's in large part to hide the tattoos, it does look weird and dodgy.

On what basis does the rapist want £5000?

Using someone’s birth name, (instead of whatever today’s alias is) is not a crime in the UK.

Harassment is a crime, but one that is almost never prosecuted (unless it is a trans person feeling harassed, in which case, the police will be on it immediately).

But nonetheless, the British police, notorious for having little grasp of the actual law, sometimes say that using the birth name of a transperson is harassment and is therefore a crime.

I’d really like some clarity on this. Is so-called ‘deadnaming’ and ‘misgendering’ illegal in the UK? I don’t see how it can be, but transpeople and sometimes the police behave as if it is.

In writing the above, I have been careful to refer to the rapist as the rapist to avoid causing the rapist offence. 🙄

Oh I assumed the face-hiding is to make it easier for him to reoffend when he’s released. 😔

It took months and calls from two separate (living) members of the family to get BT to stop charging my husband's DEAD grandmother. She had been buried a long time before it was sorted.

I think her children would like compensation please!

Spot on 😂😂😂😂

Oh boo hoo for this MAN

With the shiny, completely bald head beneath, the man-size head in a woman-size wig and the jaunty, tattoo-covering angle, I find myself wondering how on earth the thing doesn’t slide right off and land in his lap?

BoredOfThisMansWorld · Today 12:55

Anyone else here have their foreign name misspelled constantly?

Mis-spelled and mispronounced and mines a not exactly unknown Irish name. There are two relatively famous people with the same name.

Anyway, if Adam has had the £140, they ought to be told that they can keep a penny and put the rest toward the criminal injuries compensation of his two victims.

Anyone else here have their foreign name misspelled constantly?

All the fecking time and my ego has survived completely unscathed.

Bloody car dealer I bought from used the male equivalent of my name and changed me to Mr because I couldn't possibly be the one buying the car...

My husband also had his British name misspelled and mispronounced many many times.
I’ve been addressed by the wrong name more than once (mostly emails and letters).
Just a couple of weeks ago I had a phone call with an agent. The call was followed by an email (from the same person). He addressed me by a clearly male name even though he had just spoken to me on the phone and my voice is clearly female.

I like to think he turned round too fast and the wig glue didn't hold.

I knew he reminded me of someone.

Again it's another stage-managed thing to try to gain sympathy in the court. He's covering up his tattoos.

His legal team are telling him what to do to get off of the charges (which failed) and what to do to get an easier time in prison (by going to a women's prison).

The man is using all the loopholes to pretend to be trans. Is he interested in passing? No, because he's not trans. He's doing what he needs to do for the legal system to believe him.

No doubt this whole trans shtick will disappear when it all fails and he is definitely put in a men's prison.

Ah, of course. I hadn't connected the 'utility bill' requirement with the proof needed to change sex. But there it is.

Mochudubh · Today 15:58

I knew he reminded me of someone.

Creepy, what's the character?

ReunitedThorns · Today 16:13

His legal team are telling him what to do to get off of the charges (which failed) and what to do to get an easier time in prison (by going to a women's prison).

Yes, exactly. Everyone knew it, but the courts had to pretend to believe the whole chrade.