by Suzanne Moore, Telegraph
Anyone with eyes could see the ‘wife’ who killed her husband with a samurai sword was a man
It has become almost routine over the past few years to read about a horrible crime committed by a woman only to glance at the accompanying picture and realise immediately that the perpetrator is a man. We all see it, but we must not think it and, apparently, must not say it.
So effective, in fact, has the trans lobby been that our national broadcaster – the BBC – regularly ignores reality. The BBC News website recently ran a headline: “Wife killed husband with samurai sword”. But the “wife” in question, Joanna Rowland-Stuart, was actually a biological male who had killed his partner, Andrew Rowland-Stuart, “stabbing and slicing” him more than 50 times with this deadly weapon.
The killer was deemed unfit to plead following a psychiatric assessment, but in court it was revealed he had been researching samurai swords online in the preceding weeks.
I am using the pronouns “he” and “his” here in line with April’s Supreme Court ruling that confirmed that “woman” refers to a biological woman. The BBC, however, didn’t do this, instead using “she” and “her” in its reporting. This person is not a woman. Women are not to blame for this crime.