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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Darren Rigby case: salient details left out of reporting

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AccordingToWhom · 04/06/2026 12:27

Darren Rigby is a man who has been sentenced to 28 months in custody for sending hoax emails to three schools in Merseyside.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0e20ll9gz2o

https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2026/june-2026/runcorn-man-sentenced-to-28-months-for-sending-hoax-emails-to-schools/

www.google.com/amp/s/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/man-21-sentenced-after-sending-34047071.amp

However, unless you read The Southport Lead, you would be unaware that:

  • Rigby targeted girls' schools
  • His reason was the supposed opression of transwomen

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=southport.thelead.uk/p/hoax-attacker-threatened-violent&ved=2ahUKEwj15JG1vO2UAxXEWUEAHdBjG6YQFnoECFwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw30Tek3HWFdsOeYvHGm54

A police custody photograph of Darren Rigby who has brown hair and is wearing a grey jumper over a black t-shirt

Darren Rigby, who sent hoax death threats to schools is jailed

Darren Rigby, 21, sent emails threatening death or serious harm to three schools on Merseyside.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0e20ll9gz2o

OP posts:
FlirtsWithRhinos · 04/06/2026 19:33

EnjoythemoneyJane · 04/06/2026 17:44

Yeah, they don’t want that one on the team, so he’s apparently allowed to be ‘misgendered’ without all the usual TWAW caterwauling.

I honestly feel like my fucking face is melting sometimes, from all the spinning my head has to do to understand the use/misuse word salad non-logic involved in keeping this wagon on the road.

I find a coding background is very helpful here. We get used to thinking about a value separately from the variable names or pointers it may be assigned at different parts of the code.

FlirtsWithRhinos · 04/06/2026 19:35

Clearly what the Genderists are missing is strongly typed language, then they'd only be able to assign objects of the correct type to each variable 😂

FlirtsWithRhinos · 04/06/2026 19:36

Or failing that, better exception handling to catch those pesky hoaxes run time errors.

Taztoy · 04/06/2026 19:38

Ffs.

mrshoho · 05/06/2026 09:59

Horrendous reporting by the BBC and Merseyside Police. The written words of convicted Rigby give meaning and insight to his intended motives. Reading the articles we are none the wiser.

I hope a production company is willing to dramatise this case including the actions of the press and the police.

Imagine the shoe on the other foot and groups of Transgender were targeted in this way. It would be broadcast far and wide on every channel.

ApplebyArrows · 05/06/2026 10:45

Perhaps he is a nasty Mumsnetter who did the whole thing just to make trans people look bad! /s

FlirtsWithRhinos · 05/06/2026 11:23

ApplebyArrows · 05/06/2026 10:45

Perhaps he is a nasty Mumsnetter who did the whole thing just to make trans people look bad! /s

I do think it's possible he's an angry manosphere alt right nutter who just wanted to stir things. Transphobic and misogynist.

Or he might indeed be what he presented himself as, a genuine angry man who believes he is a woman and hates women so much because he knows deep down he is not.

Either way, angry man who either hates women or just sees us as tools for his behind-the-keyboard cultural war.

ETA: And the media absolutely should not have drawn a curtain over the gendered and transgendered aspects of this. Even if it turns out that he is a false flag claiming to be trans to stir, it is better that is reported honestly so people know such things do really happen than glossed over.

GreyskySexRealistsky · 05/06/2026 11:30

ApplebyArrows · 05/06/2026 10:45

Perhaps he is a nasty Mumsnetter who did the whole thing just to make trans people look bad! /s

I know you're just joking here - but there's a whole thing going around trans X at the moment that "terfs" are impersonating trans people in order to undermine their arguments from the inside!

ArabellaScott · 05/06/2026 11:56

Well, seeing as all terfs are nonbinary, they may have a point. (Everyone is nonbinary).

mrshoho · 05/06/2026 12:02

GreyskySexRealistsky · 05/06/2026 11:30

I know you're just joking here - but there's a whole thing going around trans X at the moment that "terfs" are impersonating trans people in order to undermine their arguments from the inside!

Similar mentality of those who declare Mosad responsible when an Islamic terror attack takes place.

GreyskySexRealistsky · 05/06/2026 12:05

I should think any undercover terf would be outed immediately for being unusually coherent and logical

InconvenientlyMaterial · 05/06/2026 14:33

FlirtsWithRhinos · 05/06/2026 11:23

I do think it's possible he's an angry manosphere alt right nutter who just wanted to stir things. Transphobic and misogynist.

Or he might indeed be what he presented himself as, a genuine angry man who believes he is a woman and hates women so much because he knows deep down he is not.

Either way, angry man who either hates women or just sees us as tools for his behind-the-keyboard cultural war.

ETA: And the media absolutely should not have drawn a curtain over the gendered and transgendered aspects of this. Even if it turns out that he is a false flag claiming to be trans to stir, it is better that is reported honestly so people know such things do really happen than glossed over.

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It's abusive man behaviour

He has a trans ID: the problem is that trans ideology encourages and allows violent boundary violation by males.

He is pretending to have a trans ID: the problem is that there is no gatekeeping to claiming a trans ID, and regardless, trans ideology encourages and allows violent boundary violation by males.

Not all trans people are like that obvs! But the current dominant ideology is the fundamentalist, terrorising version of the trans belief system.

RedToothBrush · 05/06/2026 15:32

Zoonosis · 04/06/2026 13:41

I think you've missed a key word in your OP here which is "hoax". There is no suggestion Rigby is actually trans or pro-trans rights or believes anything he wrote here any more than he was actually armed or actually en route to those schools. Nothing in the emails he sent was actually true.

"Hoax"

A reminder that one of the tenants of Gender Ideology is that we are supposed to believe that a person is whatever sex they say they are without question.

By framing him as 'not a real transwoman' or claiming after the fact that he was hoaxing being a transwoman to cause problems for the trans community, we have an issue.

It means activists can ignore the elephant in the room called 'safeguarding' whenever they feel like it and fail to take responsibility for the nonsense idea that you can just make up your sex as you feel.

You can't.

The fact that this isn't why it was a hoax and this poster has jumped in with two feet without understanding the case highlights the insanity of the constant need to defend the fucking indefensible.

There's either no thinking going on or it's all about bashing women for stating the bleeding obvious fair criticism.

The schools and authorities had to act as if it was real and the threat was from a transwoman regardless if you adhere to the line that they are whoever they say they are. There is no way to determine if he's a transwoman claiming he's suddenly a man to discredit transwomen in a bluff to blame the Manosphere anymore than we can determine he's 'truetrans'. Regardless of whether you think he is a man or a transwoman, the point remains hes still a male targeting girls.

He could be Manosphere. He could be trans. We have no fucking idea. Take some responsibility for putting transwomen into a position created by the lunacy of having an ideology which self declares in a way that's not even possible to prove or disprove and expecting everyone to go along with that shit. You can't have it both fucking ways.

Not only that we have plenty of examples of transwomen visitors here sounding EXACTLY like Incels. Are they liars and just trolls on the internet hoaxing us? Well that theory goes out the window with the rent a quote famous transwomen who spout crap that sounds exactly the same too on camera.

Do you know why this is? It's because a large section of the trans community IS PART OF THE MANOSPHERE but no one wants to admit this. That would blow the narratives of the oppressed poor vulnerable transwoman right out the water. Strangely enough there's a reason the two have developed mysteriously in tandem at the same moment in time.

Why because both movements are seeped up to their eyeballs in sexism and misogyny that women should not have to put up with.

TRAs ARE full blown Incels a lot of the time.

Hope this clears up the issue over the nitpicking pathetic crap over the word hoax in an effort to prove we are all evil old witches who should die from our intolerance. We got the memo that men hate women who say no.

womendeserveequalhumanrights · 05/06/2026 19:38

The only reason it can be labelled a hoax is because he hadn't done it yet.

The Southport killer claimed he was going to kill people long before he did. That might have been called a 'hoax'. Until it happened.

I thought we were supposed to believe that people were who they say they are anyway. How transphobic not to believe him.

ClayPotaLot · 06/06/2026 00:22

It is deeply concerning that journalists aren't talking about motive or the targeting of girls. This was a terror campaign against girls. Affecting the education and wellbeing of thousands of girls, even if he wasn't going to escalate and actually start doing the acts he threatened.

Whether his claim to be trans was genuine or not (and it's hard to see why it wouldn't have been at the time), leaving out the targeted nature of his acts is worrying and yet another example of our authorities and media ignoring misogyny and underplaying the costs women bear due to men's choices.

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