Phrases including
Headline:
Woman who tried to summon her MP to court is jailed for harassment
Caption under photo:
Tracey Smith used phrases including ‘a person is dangerous when they have nothing to lose’, ‘be warned’, and ‘bullets will be flying around’.
Lede:
A woman who tried to summon her MP to court has been jailed for harassment.
Clear enough?
What comes next:
Tracey Smith, who is a trans woman, sent Solicitor General Ellie Reeves 22 emails and 10 voicemails calling her “transphobic” and accusing her older sister – Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves – of physically assaulting her at a buffet bar.
Smith used phrases including “a person is dangerous when they have nothing to lose”, “be warned”, and “bullets will be flying around”.
Newspapers have no business lying about the sex of a violent threatening man in a news article.
The good news is he was sentenced to 26 weeks in prison.
Nevertheless The Standard calls him “her” and “she” throughout the article.
