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 )

”(even if - see Miller - there have been cases where the transID made the victim more willing to go along with the accused)”

I don’t know if this came up at Blake’s trial, but presumably he was presenting as femininely as he could manage when he met his victim. A victim who, drunk as he was, may not have clocked Blake’s sex.

Even when very drunk, most men would be wary of another ‘civvy’ man offering assistance (sadly). Or at least more wary than of someone who appeared to be a woman.

The Telegraph needs to get their facts straight. You do not need "gender recognition documents" to get a wrong sex passport.

A victim who, drunk as he was, may not have clocked Blake’s sex.

Blake was also wearing a hooded coat and a Covid mask.

We've no way of knowing. It might be that the poor victim had bought the 'transwomen are women' lie and misjudged the risk.

I think they're half right.

You do need documents, detailed here https://www.gov.uk/changing-passport-information/gender#:~:text=Other%20name%20changes-,Gender%20change,is%20likely%20to%20be%20permanent

Not if you go down the "cross dresser" route, they'll accept a signed declaration countersigned by your bank manager etc in the same way as getting any other passport.

And that's not what they meant anyway, or just the passport in a lady name with an F should suffice, which he probably has.

They're implying that Blake's GRC should be presented to the court.

The "Cross Dresser" process

Crossdressers
We can only issue a passport if it’s established the customer is using their new identity for all purposes. You, the examiner, must not issue a passport in a name a customer uses for some but not all purposes.

If the customer cannot provide medical evidence, they must make a statement confirming they permanently use the preferred identity. They must also have a countersignatory or digital referee confirm their new identity and send us evidence if they have changed their name (see Names - evidence to change a name)

You must scan the customers signed statement that confirms they use the preferred identity on to the application (see gender recognition: scanning supporting documents)

www.gov.uk/government/publications/gender-recognition/gender-recognition-accessible

So you rock up in a skirt, or with a bit of lippy, or skip the barbers for a few weeks, with a letter from an obliging nonentity, and you're good to go.

It's not like people who would be prepared to lie about one thing would have scruples against lying about anything else.

Yes, you write your own self declaration, and get it countersigned by the same type of person as you do for any first passport application.

@Gettingmadderallthetime One of the best posts I have read on MN in some time.

The Guardian has helpfully been reporting that more women may be psychopaths than previously thought. I wonder if it has crossed their minds that reporting male psychopath crimes as women’s might be relevant here?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/26/more-women-may-be-psychopaths-than-previously-thought-says-expert?CMP=twt_gu&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium#Echobox=1708960949

If you look at the date that came out, Monday, it was the day of the sentencing of Scarlet Blake. Great timing.

They’re baiting women. The guardian do not care anymore.

It just all adds to the very dangerous 'cloak and dagger' element of this whole issue.

People with dishonourable intentions 'hiding' in plain sight. As we always said would happen. Largely unquestioned and in the main, enabled by society in the name of Be Kind.

Alex Massie in the Times has written a good Comment piece which pulls a few threads together

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/scarlet-blake-case-shows-we-need-a-serious-conversation-about-truth-nfc999xpp

https://archive.ph/JaTK7

Use the archive link to jump the paywall

Does anyone remember that some mad TRA adjacent academic wrote an article in the Telegraph about how "female violent crimes were becoming more common" and this included and was illustrated with a picture of an MTF? Called Lisa Hauxwell or something.

I don’t know why this article made my head spin. Perhaps it is because such an article should never need to be written. How have these delusions been crowbarred into the foundations and fabric of society? How can our democracy and our norms be so vulnerable to this deliberate corrosion?

Steven Glover in the Daily Mail (boo, hiss) also seems a bit spinny in the head. He doesn't mince his words about Blake but hasn't seen the bigger picture like Massie

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13136389/STEPHEN-GLOVER-BBC-transgender-killer-Scarlet-Blake-insult-victim-distortion-complicit-women-violent.html

https://archive.ph/hFkrA

Use the archive link to jump the paywall (weird the DM having a paywall).

I remember one 'women do it to' piece which had him, and iirc for their other examples they had to go back to Rosemary West and Myra Hindley.

Good to see the Times does still have sane commentators, even if the 'news report' on this issue was as bad as the rest of the hack pack.

Christ I’m glad I’m at this end of my life and not a young person now. I fear for my grandchildren growing up in a world gone mad.

Trans women are not women.
If it has a penis, it’s a man.
If it had a penisectomy and hormone treatment, it’s still a man, no matter what. Self ID is surely one of the daftest and most dangerous norms society is expected to tolerate.

This is the one:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/truth-female-sex-offenders/

As an aside, I've deleted the Guardian app now they have the paywall - I had it as my go-to paper on my mobile but now I use a lot of other sources, which has been quite refreshing and actually far more varied. I thought I'd miss it more than I do.

I await JKRs pronouncements on this fact that this is being recorded as a female offence!