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 )

Should have updated the thread before I pressed send to BBC, clearly!

I noticed it on a previous article about the same murder. I think Miss Representation on FB has picked up on it too but that was the only other place I'd seen it mentioned.

I didn't even realise it was a biological man.
So horrified by the cat murder I missed that bit.
I did think it was a bit unusual for a women to kill in this way.

That's it isn't it, I think a lot of women were like "whaaaat?" and now it makes more sense. Shows how much of these crimes we recognise as male behaviour.

Of course there are a lot of people who think a transgender woman is a woman identifying as a man, not a man identifying as a woman.

Worth remembering that his placement in a male prison has only happened because of a massive campaign from women - especially KPSS - to get these dangerous men out of women's prisons. The trans captured MoJ had been leading the charge to wedge all of them into the women's estate. They still have a "no male with convictions for violence / sex crimes - except in very special circumstances that we won't explain but will use whenever the transactivists in the MoJ decide they want a "special" violent man in prison with women"

Infuriating and unforgivable.

How many people are puzzling about this?

"The BBC says she's transgender. And that she's going to a men's prison. So she's a woman who says she's a man and insists on going to a men's prison?"

I couldn’t care less if someone I’ve never met is the same gender as me or not. Utterly immaterial.

It is indeed.
Their sex, otoh, is entirely material.

I tried to make a complaint but they didn't send the confirm email link for ages (I refreshed and checked spam for 5 minutes) so then it was over the 60 minutes when I noticed it had come through. I don't think they want complaints. Now I'll have to type it again.

You have violent males like this being missexed as female in reporting, than the manosphere misogynists come along as say "see, women are just as bad" using the missexed news reports to bolster their claims.

These are not women's crimes.

People born as biological male should not be bumping up the figures of violent and nearly always sexualy motivated violence carried out by women.

If they must be recorded as non male then it should be a transgender.

I was wondering how she overpowered him. I only hear just now how. I think it's wrong.

Yes, it confused me when I already knew transwoman and transman. I thought a transgender woman meant a woman who is transgender, otherwise known as a transman.

I have already emailed a complaint to the BBC about factually incorrect reporting. This issue is so important. Await their response with interest.

ITV just done same on 6;30 news. Issued complaint

It is not fair to add this crime to the stats of crimes committed by women. If you set any importance at all in statistical analysis of criminal acts and behaviour then it’s important to record this correctly as a male on male sexually motivated crime, not a female on male sexually motivated crime. If you’re female by birth and happy that such horrendous crimes are attributed to your birth sex then that’s fine but don’t expect all women to agree.

I'd like to know what prison he will be sent to?

You couldn't be more racist or ablist if you tried.

Men commit over 90% of violent crimes and over 98% of sexual offending. The difference in offending rates between different racial groups is so small as to be statistical noise and is negligible in practice. Disabled people are more likely to be assaulted than to commit assault.

Comparing sex to race is racist. Comparing sex to disability is ablist. And both are sexist.

As in, male or female prison ...

Male. It's been mentioned on the thread.

But they’re not reporting incorrectly. They are reporting about the CRIME not the person.

It does say this : The Ministry of Justice said Blake, who is transgender, would serve the sentence in a men's prison

Reporting on the crime includes reporting on the perp and victims. There is a public interest in reporting being accurate.

They mentioned it then because her being trans was a main issue and cause in her death. This is not a trans issue which is why it’s not mentioned. It’s murder plain and simple.

Murder is a majority-male crime. This report makes it look like a woman did it when in fact a man did. This slanders women as a class.

I personally think that once a crime is committed and sentencing reported they should be referred to in their biological sex by authorities and news outlets rather than whatever they choose.