Daily Echo: Hampshire woman appears in court charged with raping girl

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https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24930914.woman-accused-sex-assault-children-appears-court/

The Mail reporting is clearer...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14392643/Transgender-woman-court-rape-girl-sexually-assault-boy.html

Transgender woman Maddison Wilson, 37, is accused of abusing the young girl 'with your penis' in 2011, according to the charge sheet.

Wilson is also accused of sexually assaulting a boy under the age of 13 around six years later.

The alleged sex offender spoke only to confirm their preferred pronouns of 'she/her' in the dock at Southampton Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

No, the law says something like, Person A commits the offence of rape if he penetrates Person B with his penis and Person B does not consent and Person A does not reasonably believe that Person B consents.

It doesn't say that Person A has to be a man, although back in 2003 I don't think anyone believed in the womanly penis.

It does indeed say "if he penetrates' and "with his penis".

I can't think why a smart lawyer doesn't appeal a guilty verdict if the court uses "she" and "her penis" throughout.

That's not the wording of the law so how could the defendant have broken it?

A traumatised child is at the heart of this.

It's not something for linguistic games nor thought experiments no matter who is doing it with what grim realisation, despair, or intent.

Oh I would love to see an appeal on that basis.

Can't think of anything better to peak the masses.

I see no woman
Have searched and still nope

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14395689/Paedophile-snared-police-young-boy-jailed.html

hmmm...

The daily echo has now changed its headline to 'trans woman'. I imagine it had complaints - the original wasn't compliant with the first clause of the IPSO code relating to accuracy and not publishing misleading headlines.

In the mail article, strangely appears to have three legs in the accompanying picture.

Based on the media account, that would be two traumatised children.

The Mail has its doubts, too. Its earlier headline read "Woman, 25, snared by police while trying to meet boy for sex is jailed".

And the current story, now headlined "Paedophile, 25, who was snared by police while trying to meet up with a young boy for sex is jailed', uses no pronouns at all.

That is despite Avon and Somerset Police using 'she/her' in its media release.
https://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/news/2025/02/north-somerset-sex-offender-jailed/

And that’s another problem, because not all forces do record biological sex, so our crime stats are made less reliable. As are court and prison data.

Media is really tying itself in knots over IPso guidance, partic after the Spectator was hauled over the coals. There seems always to be the assumption that you refer to people by their preferred pronouns. Which isn’t what IPSO says. (I’m trying to find the exact clause.)

Another example of the new Rapist Gender (thank you Nicola and Humza)

If such a code exists, it's rarely enforced.

Of course the code exists. I've linked to it on other threads. There's a specific sex and gender page but I'm referring to clause 1(i) of the main code

www.ipso.co.uk/editors-code-of-practice/

i) The Press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted information or images, including headlines not supported by the text.

For some reason newspapers seem prone to getting tangled in the weeds rather than always applying that basic sanity check.

The Telegraph also refers to the person being transgender, although doesn't say FtM or MtF.

"Despite court records referring to the paedophile using “he”, police have since referred to McCullgh as “she”."

Gift link:
https://telegraph.co.uk/gift/96fafaec477be199

That poor girl.

As for the alleged rapist - SHE?
These bloody chancers can't even shave properly.
As I have said many time before, I am so fucking done with this shit.

Possibly he was still a bloke then? It’s amazing how many men feel like a woman when they are going to
get prosecuted. Cue the defence saying suffering gender dysphoria and mental health issues due to a lack of acceptance within society. Luckily now a lady so all that is good and pure so you should most definitely acquit.

He is still a bloke now. Once a bloke, always a bloke.

Oh, no….I don’t have one 😱

Why the fuck does our legal system allow these sexual abusers state their preferred pronouns and now down to not offending the piece of shit?

No one gives a shiny shit how they prefer to be addressed - it’s a bloke. A vile disgusting child rapist bloke and no one should be pandering to these scum bags.

as a politician once said, a woman cannot be a rapist. Rape a child & you lose your rights to gender choice.

Cos it's a female penis, obviously. And a lesbian sexual assault.

Wouldn't be the first time:

transcrimeuk.com/2017/10/30/karen-lawson/

Alleged Portsmouth paedophile who identifies as woman set for court over rape of girl
https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/crime/alleged-portsmouth-paedophile-trans-woman-5003421

Just posting to show another version of how they cant just report the truth.

ie rather than actually say man, says paedophile.

Time to stop fudging the truth. It’s a man who identifies as a woman. His gender identity doesn’t make him any less of a man, because he was born male and will die male. That’s biology for you.

I believe that using she/her pronouns for this man is grotesquely offensive, not just to his alleged victims, but to anyone who has ever been raped. It twists the knife because it is gaslighting.

A man accused of using HIS penis to commit rape may well identify as a woman and prefer she/her pronouns but that doesn’t mean he has to be referred to in that way.

In court reporting, if you’re a defendant, you get called by your surname. No Mr or Mrs courtesy titles. Why should any man get called wrong-sex pronouns as a courtesy in a case where his sex is a significant factor in his alleged crimes?