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 )

Yeah, however you stand on this issue I don’t even get the comparison that poster is making.

The equivalence would more be if they were reporting say a white killer and stating it was a black person or vice versa.

Or portraying a crime committed by a non-disabled person, as one committed by a disabled person.

Also by asking OP if she would want a disclaimer that those aren’t her crimes, she’s effectively assumed the Op is not an ethnic minority or disabled herself.

How does it slander women?

What's bigger than stopping women's history being incorrect?
Why should women be tarred with mens crimes?

This.

I feel like the media outlets have used woman as clickbait as it is such a shocking story for a female to have done this. If this story was reported as male, it would have been missed in the thousands of other violent crimes committed by men.

Yes I agree with this. They have included the facts about him being biologically male right at the bottom to keep people reading/on the site longer. As most people reading will go ‘wow this is an unusual crime for a woman…..ahhh’

I think that's true, but they are obviously misrepresenting the truth by referring to him as a woman (and his "girlfriend" in America who he was trying to impress who stitched him up who is also a man) and they are going to be called out on it. Interesting to see what will happen now.

Women would prefer not to be blamed for gruesome sexual crimes that men have committed. I can’t claim to speak for all women but I supect most would agree with me.

@ArabellaScott thread in AIBU demonstrates that this was happening on Friday when he was convicted and has carried on until the sentencing today. People following the court case only found out for sure (though many people suspected) when Blake himself was on the stand.

'Women don't commit crimes like that' So you've never heard of Myra Hindley, Beverly Allitt, Lucy Letby, the various female guards at Nazi concentration camps et al

To be angry that Scarlet Blake is being called a woman. http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/5014437-to-be-angry-that-scarlet-blake-is-being-called-a-woman

Women don't commit crimes like that' So you've never heard of Myra Hindley, Beverly Allitt, Lucy Letby, the various female guards at Nazi concentration camps et al

Female murderers overall, let alone sexual sadists, are extremely rare. Most evidence suggests that MTFs have a male pattern of crime.

By making it look like a woman killed a cat and a human when in fact a man did.

Do explain how you know the OP is not from an ethnic minority background or doesn't have a disability?

Quite some assumptions you made there.

Weird whataboutery.

Curious if OP also takes the same approach with ethnic minorities or perhaps the disabled. If they commit crimes, does she also require a disclaimer because they’re not “her” crimes?

Don't be silly. Scarlet Blake is a man. Not a woman. The media needs to tell the truth.

I wonder if they get sentenced as harshly as women for murder? I seem to remember people get foamy mouthed at female murderers and they get longer sentences. I know women are imprisoned for things men get community service for (food theft etc). I guess the more of these that happen the more data we will have.

Both victims and perpetrators. Biological sex should be used in all official capacities.

It should always be recorded by biological sex, however I think it's also relevant to record the transgender identity of both victims and perpetrators, so any patterns in the data can be observed.

If someone like Rachael Dolezal or Benjamin Butterworth committed a crime like this and was reported as being Black, there would be widespread outrage and people calling out the double-dose of racism inherent in a white perp claiming to be Black and the press upholding and repeating that claim.

Yet women are called bigoted etc when a male murderer claims to be a woman and we object to this. Why are women the only class of people expected to tolerate this collective slander?

RIP Jorge. What a needless death of a beloved brother and son.

Apparently he was a triplet. So devastating for his family in Spain.

You poster you're replying to didn't say 'Women don't commit crimes like that', or anything similar, despite the quote marks you placed around it. She made a careful, precise, factual statement which you seem to have ignored because it's impossible to argue with, and instead argued against some fantasy debate opponent who exists only in your head.

This is a great example of the inability of TRAs to debate or discuss honestly.

Yes it really needs to be made clear that this is a man. This must be a big problem in criminology (and compromises present and future research) but the silence is deafening. I am presently doing an LLM in Cambridge (I am a lawyer on a sabbatical from another country) and it's been interesting how little those academics active in trans-affected subjects will engage critically with the subject or at all, but that's perhaps for another thread.

You know differently from everyone else then. Brianna's death was nothing to do with trans issues, aside perhaps from being vulnerable. I take it you are aware there were 5 teenagers on the hit list, and none of the others were trans. Brianna was the second one they tried to kill, after failing to enage the first one.

I don't care btw whether Scarlet Blake is trans or not. The issue is that HE IS A MAN, A MAN, A FUCKING MAN.

Thank you for making our point perfectly. Women don’t commit crimes like this. You have listed 2 women who killed babies, an accomplice to a male psychopath from 60 years ago and female guards from 80 years ago.

This was a male crime committed by a trans woman egged on by another trans woman. Transwomen retain male offending patterns