Former Head of Culford accused of fraud.

[NotNatacha]

The interesting point is what isn’t being mentioned.

BBC Look East just now included a section about Julian Johnson-Munday. He is accused of fraud, because it is claimed he’d used a school credit card to pay for tickets to Lords and hotel accommodation.

He was suspended from his job 3 years ago.

They showed film of him close-up and also queuing to get into the court building. No comment on his appearance, but the way he looked, including his hair being curled into short ringlets, caused me to look online for more.

Here’s an article on the BBC website. It starts with a photo presumably taken when he was still at Culford. If you didn’t look lower down you might miss today’s photo. The article describes what he was wearing, but nothing more.

(screenshots of BBC article to be approved, plus an Alamy photograph)

ITV article.

Again, the article describes what he is wearing but the rest of the article is just about the school and the offences he’s accused of.

I would agree that the way he chooses to dress for court has nothing to do with his offence.

Well if he's a man who's claiming to be a women, he's already a known fraud and conman. 🙄

The interesting point is what isn’t being mentioned.

I'm not sure I understand why you think this is an interesting omission. Are you saying that you think that his trans identity should be mentioned? Or are you simply commenting on the use of correct pronouns?

I can't think of any reason why his trans identity needs mentioning in this context.

I mean, surely this sort of straightforward factual reporting is just what we want. The story is entirely clear that he is a man. The problem with earlier approaches was that journos falsely represented men as women - even to the extent of not saying that they were 'trans women'.
Once they stop making that false claim and report sex correctly, we don't need to know anything about the fact that the person is trans (unless that is relevant in the court case), any more than we need tp know what football team they support.

Well I suppose having his clothes commented on instead of his opinions, is a tiny bit of womanhood he can experience.

My perception is that the bbc regional reports tend to be a bit more straightforward and honest than some of the national ones are (perhaps were?) inclined to be. Though perhaps it depends on the region.

I don’t think his clothes need to be mentioned, either. I don’t think what the defendant is wearing is usually described. The interesting point here is that they are.

I had been going to start a thread about this. It's sad but factual reporting really is the exception with this.

Good on ITV for appointing themselves the fashion police, that is an absolutely terrible outfit. So dated. The defendant should have been rearrested in court for crimes against fashion. Nobody has dressed like this since about 1996. Unless they are about 100.

The only unusual thing is the description of his clothes - but they are a bit out of the ordinary for a man.

There is no way of telling whether he is 'transgender' or a gender non-conforming man.

Even if he's trans, if I was him I would have appeared in male attire, then changed my name to Julia Johnson, to distance myself from the crime. Those clothes must be really important to him, if he can't bear to give them up temporarily to dissociate them from his 'deadname'.

What do you think is missing from the report?

These men are often imitating an actual woman from a particular time in their lives. They fixate on reproducing her clothing and look. It can be very creepy.

It's common for court reports to mention the defendant's clothing, even when it's something like, "he appeared wearing a grey prison-issue sweatshirt & blue sweatpants".

Anyone know if this is another case of arrest onset gender dysphoria?

It's all just weird. It's weird that he showed up to defend himself in court dressed in women's clothes. It was weird when outlets like the BBC would have called him a woman in their reporting rather than saying "the man showed up to defend himself in court dressed like a woman." It's weird that a judge would allow that or at the very least not comment on its inappropriateness for a court hearing. Now it's weird bc, even tho the tide is turning and people are finally free to acknowledge how weird it all is, we somehow have to figure out how to navigate amongst this weirdness which is never going to fully go away.

Maybe the BBC was trying not to ignore the weirdness of his attire but report on it in as unbiased way as possible. I honestly don't think it would have been appropriate to ignore it bc - IT'S WEIRD!

It's weird that a judge would allow that or at the very least not comment on its inappropriateness for a court hearing.

If the judge did not allow a male defendant to wear clothes that would have been allowable for a female defendant, that would have been sex discrimination.

That's one good thing FWS has done for trans people: they have the protected characteristic of (birth) sex, even with a GRC.

I suppose the difference is that a lot more people are aware of the sexual fetishes that men can exhibit. Before, you might just say that these men are simply experimenting with clothes. Now you have the awareness that they might be/are probably getting sexual thrills/kicks whilst they are wearing clothes that they firmly associate with women and girls.

It is not like a woman wearing jeans and a tee shirt. It is probably sexual in nature with many men. So, you get the ick, and would rather they didn’t expose others to their fetishes.

Just my view.

I see he is holding his coat down with his hand in one photo. I would be lying if it didn’t occur to me that his ‘excitement’ might be revealing itself, and he is covering that area with his hand.

Agree

But why qualify it with ‘Just my view’? Your view is as important on this as anyone else’s. You can bet your last £100 that the defendant never says ‘just my view’. This is because he is a man.

I agree. Though it feels like people can say well he isn’t changing his name or pretending to be a woman, that’s what you want isn’t it? But we know that the fetish is there and so is the misogyny.

Yes, it's the sexism and misogyny that are the problem really, the clothes are just an outward symbol of the internal attitudes toward women.

Realising that has changed me from a, 'wear whatever you want', person into a 'suspicious of men and their clothing choices' person.

Having grown up through (and loved) Glam, Punk, New Romantic, Goth, Grunge, I'd never felt that men and women should adhere to stereotypes when it comes to presentation but this growing crop of AGP men has made me reevaluate that opinion when it comes to male clothing and presentation. And I greatly resent these men for causing me to become less flexible on this issue.

I wonder if he ever showed any signs of trans inclination before leaving his position? There is the concern that he may be assuming the identity of a woman in order to use ‘gender confusion’ as an excuse for his fraudulent behaviour and accordingly use a mental health crisis as a defence to avoid a prison sentence. I have too much respect for the genuine trans community to not question this man’s motives.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15585513/Ex-head-independent-school-accused-dishonestly-using-funds-cricket-tickets-luxury-accommodation-wait-two-years-trial.html

JJ-M’s solicitor asked reporters to use they/them pronouns.

So it looks like this chap was head teacher of the school for 19 years but was sacked in 2023 for gross misconduct after misusing school funds and treatment of staff. He lived on site at the school while in post.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12300065/amp/Headmaster-37-000-year-independent-school-sacked-misusing-funds-mistreating-staff.html