Journalistic malpractice
A tale of two news items:
First, Citrus County [Florida] Chronicle:
Inverness woman arrested for having inappropriate relationships with minors
An Inverness woman was jailed for allegedly having inappropriate relationships with several minors she also sent explicit images to.
Citrus County Sheriff’s Office authorities arrested Diana Elizabeth Guevara July 13 on a warrant charging the 33-year-old with transmitting harmful materials to minors, having unlawful sexual activity with minors, and four counts of lewd and lascivious battery.
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A second victim, a teenage boy, told investigators Guevara performed a sex act on him in June while he was at her home, and a third teenage boy told Ricci that Guevara had sexual contact with him four separate times.
Both teens said Guevara told them she was younger than her actual age.
Second, Reduxx:
Trans-Identified Male Arrested After “Manipulating” Minors Into Sexual Abuse
A trans-identified male who “manipulated” children into sexual activities was arrested last Wednesday in Citrus County, Florida. According to police, 33-year-old Diana Elizabeth Guevara fostered a relationship with one child in order to “identify [his] next victims.”
Guevara sent multiple explicit photos and videos on social media to children between the ages of 12 to 17, law enforcement officials said, adding that he also had sexual relations with a number of the children at his home in Inverness.
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Guevara’s crime received little coverage by mainstream outlets, and he was referred to as a “woman” by both police and local news.
In 2017, Guevara, a former Miami-Dade Police Officer, was featured in both print news and television reports advertising the benefits of ‘gender affirming’ medical interventions through the LGBTQ Clinic at the University of Miami. In an article published by the Miami Herald, Guevara lauds having a breast augmentation as “life-changing” experience.
The Citrus County story never once mentions that Guevara is a man or that he is trans.
Every single time. “Trans woman” if they’re the victim of a crime, “Woman” if they’re the perp.
Every damn time.
When I read headlines about some “woman” committing a crime like this, I don’t truly believe the person is a real woman until I get further proof. How soon will it be before crime statistics start to go completely screwy due to men’s crimes being counted as women’s crime? I can wait to see those headlines — “women now as likely to be rapists and pedophiles as men are, is feminism to blame?”
The dream headline of every MRA.