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BBC headline:
Sex offender jailed for contacting young girls
Tell us more, Beeb.
A registered sex offender who breached a prevention order by sending sexually explicit messages to schoolgirls has been jailed for four years and eight months. Katie Birtles was arrested on 16 January after trying to meet a 14-year-old girl at the railway station in Grantham, Lincolnshire.
Birtles, of Wroxall Drive, Grantham, breached a 10-year sexual harm prevention order (SHPO), preventing any contact with children, which was put in place in 2017 for previous offences. Lincolnshire Police said messages on Birtles’ phone over a two-week period in January found the offender was planning to meet victims for sex and had offered to buy gifts such as wine and chocolates. At Lincoln Crown Court on Monday, the 40-year-old was ordered to remain on the sex offenders register for life and will be subject to the SHPO indefinitely.
Etcetera.
The entire longish piece never once admits that “Katie” Birtles is a man. It includes a photo, but the wording is strenuously gender-neutral throughout.
Maybe they think we’ll be so overcome with relief about “They’re not using she/her!” that we won’t notice the “failure to mention male” part. Maybe this is their way of doing baby steps?
Guess the news outlet is going to evade the wrath of the trans by using the wrong pronouns. As long as they post a picture of the guy, they can claim that they did give the readers all the information needed.