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so basically we can assume that *ANY TIME* we read about a predator hoarding child porn they are MALE no matter what gender the paper uses. When are people going to wake up and realize the transvestitism is part of the sexual deviancy of sexual deviants??? I am not saying all sex change patients are sexual deviants, but it is not possible in my opinion that someone with sexual deviancy such as hoarding child porn be just 'incidentally' transvestite or a sex change participant. Sorry not sorry.

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No worries. Ever since I was, ahem, enlightened regarding the gender horror story a couple of years ago I've become a bit of a petition nerd 🤓

And enjoyed every second, may I add 😉

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Signed and I've also complained to IPSO for the Western Telegraph reporting of the Haverfordwest flasher

1 Accuracy

I believe readers have been misled into believing the birth sex of this person is female rather than male. The fact that someone dressing as a woman performing a criminal act that is usually assigned to men is dangerous and misleading. The birth sex of the individual would have been easy for the journalist to find out. This dangerous reclassifying this person's sex has implications for a. how this story is received b. how this person is treated by the press c. how the perception of women's criminal activities will be skewed because these acts are committed by men in dresses, not women, they are committed by people still in possession of their penis, they are not women. At most they should be referred to in the press as someone dressing as a woman, or a trans woman or an autogynephile, the accuracy in press reports like this is crucial. It has the potential to impact the public narrative, things like suddenly women can rape, women can have penises, women are just as likely to commit domestic violence as men - this incoherent and dangerous narrative will have implications for women's services, women's only safe spaces and the impacts on young women could be profound.

9 Reporting of crime

Misreporting the sex of a criminal has impacts, there are crimes whose prevalence are in the male sex especially violent and sexual crimes, this is a sexual crime and assigning it to a "woman" has repercussions particularly around the public perception of particular crimes, reporting of crimes and the bigger narrative about women specific services.

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Well done for contacting the Western Telegraph

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a recent one from my area, this one appears to be a natal female, look at the difference in the sentencing for this, I think this should be a capital crime or at least a life sentence but 50 years is appropriate for sure... https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-greensboro-child-pornography-7cb2e9969cd3577827cec25db351e638

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I cant say for certain this is a natal female on second thought...it is a Presbyterian daycare she worked at for five years...if your kids are not safe in a church day care where are they safe at all...Mirror story https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/church-teacher-filmed-herself-sexually-14248151

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That’s a great point it is obvious women and children are not safe anywhere and in good old medieval fashion male dominated institutions are wilfully blind or enacting DARVO type behaviours and passive aggressive refusal to enforce longstanding laws as a truly pathetic and obvious effort to both erase and oppress women and maintain an illusion of the patriarchy’s goodwill when it’s actually a sadistic disaster of unparalleled proportion for every living thing. A very few do well the vast majority are enslaved and exploited with a facade of care if they’re lucky. This ideological movement is just another of the nonsense we accept as reality and progressive and good. Humanity is doomed by its own stupidity in handing power exclusively over to men really. They simply don’t know what they’re doing and we aren’t allowed to speak up for our and our children’s needs. The suffering of women and the children is truly an abomination and a sign of deep seated ignorance and uncivilisation. May as well just face it.

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I have received my response from IPSO (Independent Press Standards Organisation, @IpsoNews). No surprises! This is it:

"I write further to our earlier email regarding your complaint about an article headlined “Paedophile jailed for arranging to meet 'child'”, published by devonlive.com on 22nd April 2021.

When IPSO receives a complaint, the Executive staff review it first to decide whether the complaint falls within our remit, and whether it raises a possible breach of the Editors’ Code of Practice. We have read your complaint carefully, and have decided that it does not raise a possible breach of the Editors’ Code.

You said the article breached Clause 1 (accuracy) because you believed it was inaccurately attributing a sexual offence to a woman. The article under complaint was a report of criminal proceedings in the Exeter Crown Court. The defendant was identified in the article by the name by which the defendant had been identified in the proceedings and the article had also referred to the defendant by nouns and pronouns which were consistent with this name. In these circumstances, the way in which the defendant had been described in the article was not inaccurate or misleading and your complaint did not raise a possible breach of the Code.

You are entitled to request that the Executive’s decision to reject your complaint be reviewed by IPSO’s Complaints Committee. To do so you will need to write to us in the next seven days, setting out the reasons why you believe the decision should be reviewed. Please note that we are unable to accept requests for review made seven days after the date of this email.

We would like to thank you for giving us the opportunity to consider the points you have raised, and have shared this correspondence with the newspaper to make it aware of your concerns.

Best wishes,

(name redacted)

Cc

devonlive.com

(name redacted)

Complaints Officer "

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