BBC News does not inform readers cat killer and murderer Scarlett Blake is transgender in this article. I intend to complain to ofcom. These are not our crimes.

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Has anyone seen this recent article on the transgender (trans woman) Scarlett Blake who was sentenced to 24 years today for murdering a man. Blake also killed a cat. Pls see this recent article from bbc news. BBC news puts nowhere in article that Blake is transgender. Uses pronouns ‘she’ and refers to Blake as a woman.

bbc article here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-68401335

These are not our crimes. I am reporting the omission of the fact Blake is transgender to Ofcom. I wonder if anyone is thinking the same (about reporting to ofcom, here is the link: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/complaints )

Agreed...the headline should read....Cat murders man....then maybe the media will be held more accountable for its 'facts'

It's crazy how that wasn't taken seriously as it was just so vile.

Animal cruelty and torture definitely correlates to later abuse and murder of humans.

Many years ago I knew a Magistrate who told us of a terrible animal cruelty case that she referred to Crown Court as she wouldn't be able to hand down a severe enough sentence in Magistrate's Court.

I wish she hadn't mentioned what it was about , as it has troubled me for decades.

That was 'allegedly' perpetrated by two young men.

Magistrate didn't mention any names of course, but I have wondered in the intervening years if the men were ever convicted of serious crimes against women and children.

Can someone please relink the Unherd article? I’ve looked but can’t find it on the thread. Ty💐

'Blake was given puberty blockers when she was 17 and also received hormone treatment from the age of 18 after a referral to the Tavistock NHS gender clinic.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13119563/cat-killer-murder-oxford-transgender-victim-random-escort-called-police.html

If it gets touched on at all, I’d be amazed.

But if it does get airtime, I’d bet it’ll be Jeremy doing his usual “both sides” / “it’s complicated” routine and he’ll stack the guests he uses so that the TWAW mantra gets a good airing whilst the ‘counterpoint’ will come from an “inclusion” correspondent. You know the sort - someone who’ll parrot something about IPSO guidelines whilst not touching the actual issue with a bargepole.

But hey, you never know. At some point he’s got to grow a backbone.

https://unherd.com/newsroom/why-is-the-bbc-calling-scarlet-blake-a-woman/

I’ve complained again. Fuck all will happen, as when I complained about Isla Bryson

Have it on the laptop now...Urgh...I didn't realise that it was basically a music show. So one has to listen to a load of ghastly pop before one gets to lightweight chit chat.

{As you can tell, not used to Radio 2!}

I think the cat killing didn't come to light until Bell dobbed him in for the murder.

Surely by 17 puberty is well underway, what's the point of blocking it then? It's a pity the Tavi didn't do more for Blake's mental health, perhaps their patient wouldn't have gone on to murder.

A report on the BBC's reporting in the Spectator

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-the-bbc-spreading-fake-news-about-a-trans-cat-killing-murderer/

Apparently, Blake's 'deadname' (one of them anyway), his original name is Fangze Wang. The phrase 'deadname' isn't used in the report, thankfully. I found it tasteless enough in the Brianna Ghey murder. It somehow seems worse here. Blake moving through his life, leaving a trail of deadnames and then one actual corpse.

It’s the next item up on Jeremy Vine, radio 2, listening now.

Yes, sorry. It’s normally the point that I switch off R2. I used to be a R4 listener all day, until Woman’s Hour became indoctrinated and intolerable!

Already lost count of how many times JV has said "she" 😡

Yep, let’s roll out Jayne Faye!

I wonder what biological sex ‘Jayne’ is. That’s rhetorical 😂

Gosh, not heard from Fae for a while.

https://twitter.com/Brig333/status/1762459644717412842

'Jeremy Vine - using the word ‘woman’ with ‘she/her’ pronouns to refer to Scarlett Blake whilst debating the use of dishonest language used by the media surrounding the news story'

'certain people got very very cross about it' - Vine.

Women, Jeremy. Women have fucking had enough.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/jk-rowling-scarlet-blake-trans-b2503056.html#Echobox=1709037970

Jeremy is just…ugh. Can’t listen to him. The speed with which he moves from faux sad, deep voice when introducing a serious topic, to faux jolly on a frivolous issue makes him seem so insincere.

Thanks - I've complained to the BBC.

Surely by 17 puberty is well underway, what's the point of blocking it then? It's a pity the Tavi didn't do more for Blake's mental health, perhaps their patient wouldn't have gone on to murder.

Yes, thats certainly part of the tragedy.
What if Blake had had some sort of therapy?
What if there weren't vile sites on the internet nurturing sick fantasies into terrible deeds?

Bit odd that someone with a toe-curlingly awful voice works in radio, really.

wtf do these 'journalists' drone on about the 'backlash' against JKR and never mention the massive support she has for her brave honesty, especially from women?
I suppose they don't have to pretend to have balanced reporting but it's ridiculous. I note that so far this piece has two comments - both saying jkr is right.

Brave woman, ex police officer, given hardly any time to counteract the nonsense from the first interviewee, but wouldn’t be shut down by the other men that came on.