BBC again falsely attributing alleged crime of a male to a woman.

[Cailleach1]

Not to comment on the case itself as it is current. However, surely the BBC are spreading disinformation with lies like this.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2lk87qkzg4o

Sorry how do you know it's not a woman? There's no picture and nothing in the text that suggests this. Is it in another article somewhere?

I assume that person is a woman. If not very misleading.

https://transcrimeuk.com/2021/05/23/kyle-zoe-watts/

This person?

https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2020/10/transgender-police-woman-found-with-explosives-and-gun-appears-in-court/

I'm sorry this is a link to Pink News, but they have state explicitly that Zoe Watts is a transwoman and the mainstream media are referring to Watts just as 'woman'. https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/22/zoe-watts-trans-prisoner-medication/ PN are very cross that Watts was held on a male prison wing, of course.

Why can't they st least put trans woman in the headline even if they then use she in the article.

The one that hit watermelons with feminists' faces taped to them with a baseball bat?

How are they allowed to do this?!

Thanks all, the original article was very misleading then. They obsessively put Tommy Robinson's real name in every news report about him, showing they can find the word space if they want to, but they don't report transwomen criminals the same way.

IPSO are captured. That's why cocolokio

It's not even worth complaining to the BBC is it? Last time I complained I got a mealy-mouthed passive aggressive response saying "our reporting is accurate because we say it's accurate so there."
(ETA obviously I've paraphrased)

Wow - quite the repeat offender.

Disgraceful. How dare they? Why should readers trust anything the BBC says, when they treat the public with such contempt?

Oh course it's Unison( rages to myself at the years I spent paying into that bloody women hating trade union).

Blimey. It comes to something when Pink News - PINK NEWS - is less dishonest than the BBC.

BBC aren't regulated by IPSO, they self regulate. Only if you jump through many hoops do you get to take it to IPSO, and most people will die give up long before they get that far.

I've complained on the basis of factual inaccuracy.

No surprises there. The BBC had another article recently filed under "women's rights" about how scared men were now after the supreme court ruling. The hyperbole was off the scale. I think the headline was something like "life is a living hell now" or something like that. What mate, because you can't go into women's changing rooms, safe spaces like rape crisis or DV centres?

Total dishonesty from the BBC about this subject is par for the course nowadays. I just don't engage mostly. They disappoint me the most. Well, them and the guardian too.

I've complained so many times about articles like this and there is always a mealy response or I'm ignored. It's not worth it.

I'm just interested to see if the SC judgment and the clarity around the meaning of 'woman' in law changes anything when they're challenged.

It comes to something when the BBC are repeatedly shown to be out and out liars. They are worse then useless in this respect.

Woman 'tried to build a gun using a 3D printer', court hears https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14798031/Woman-tried-build-semi-automatic-weapon-using-printer-searched-Google-ask-anybody-killed-3D-printed-gun-court-hears.html?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton

Bloody hell! Anyone with half a brain and a lazy eye can see he’s a big bastard bloke!!

Why are they printing ‘she’ all the time when he’s clearly a hairy male fucker?

I hope he isn’t recorded anywhere for stats purposes as a woman. That would be completely insane.

I wonder if the reason they aren't mentioning Zoe is biologically male is because Zoe has a Gender Recognition Certificate therefore even Zoe's birth certificate says female. It seems odd that suddenly the Mail who aren't usually shy about mentioning trans status has used woman and she.

Agreed @Boiledbeetle also failed to mention that he was a former police officer

They've changed it; still haven't clarified that it's about a man, just removed 'woman's from headline and continued with she/her throughout!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2lk87qkzg4o