Some men have begun identifying as women after being arrested for heinous crimes, but corporate media outlets often refer to them as “women” even if they only adopted their female identity after arrest. He admitted to kicking her to death, crushing her skull and drinking her blood in a 2003 letter to the New York Daily News. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) pushed New Jersey to allow transgender-identified biological males to be housed in women’s prisons through a 2019 lawsuit. “In prisons in California, Illinois, and Washington, men, including sex offenders, are [having] themselves transferred to women’s prisons,” Stepman said. Numerous media outlets referred to Tubbs as a woman and used Tubbs’ new name, “Hannah,” when covering the new charge.

Source: The Guardian June 08, 2022 04:28 UTC