A tiny hint
News media continue to lie about men who commit crimes of violence. Brighton and Hove News for example:
Brighton woman, 70, appears before court charged with murdering husband
Brighton woman, 70, is of course not a woman.
A 70-year-old Brighton woman has appeared in court by video link charged with murdering her husband in their Kemp Town flat. Joanna Rowland-Stuart was aided by a British Sign Language interpreter at Lewes Crown Court this morning (Wednesday 24 July).
Rowland-Stuart, formerly known as John Stuart, appeared by video link from Downview prison, in Surrey, but did not enter a plea over the death of her husband Andrew Rowland-Stuart.
Mr Rowland-Stuart was a former lorry driver previously known as Angie or Angela Rowland, Angie or Angela Rowland-Stuart and Andy or Andrew Rowland.
Oops, they slipped up there – a stray “Mr” spoils the game.
The emergency services were called to the couple’s 15th-floor home in Lavender Street, Brighton, shortly after 7.30pm on Monday 27 May. Despite paramedics’ efforts to save 70-year-old Mr Rowland-Stuart, he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police arrested Joanna Rowland-Stuart, a former transgender rep and a former director of the LGBT Community Safety Forum, on suspicion of murder.
So much for the LGBT Community Safety Forum, eh?
The B&H Gazette may have a mole in its ranks, because it goes on to provide what looks like a very sarcastic pair of photos, first this one captioned Andrew
and then this one captioned Joanna:
Rowland-Stuart remains in custody, awaiting trial.
Update: Andrew is one person and “Joanna” is another, so the photos aren’t all that sarcastic. Thanks to John Reed for catching my dopy error.
I sort of thought the Mr. Rowland-Stuart in the last paragraph was the ‘husband’. I could be wrong, though. Proof reading is so much on life support.
And both consulted about domestic abuse. Couldn’t make it up
https://gendercriticalwoman.blog/2024/06/02/joanna-stuart-rowland/
She looks better as Andrew, if a little unsightly.
My interpretation of the text and photos is that John/Joanna is a male who identifies as a woman — bottom photo — and Andrew/Andy/Angela/Angie (former lorry driver, the deceased victim) is a male — top photo — who at some point in the past identified as a woman (Angela/Angie), but who more recently identified as a man (Andrew/Andy).
But of course, I could be wrong.
So could I.
[looks again]
In fact you’re right Andrew is one person and John/Joanna is the other. My bad!
Without the photo of Andrew, I thought the story was “Man (pretending to be woman) kills woman (pretending to be man)” but I guess John Reed has it right. Not that we should be guessing or interpreting – it’s a news article, the whole point is to report the facts.
On the plus side, 9 comments on the B&H News site and 8 of them pointing out that “Joanna” is a man. The other comment is a weird rant about tower blocks. I can only dream of the comments on my local news site having that kind of focus.
An unsurprising mistake! It’s getting to the point where you need a degree in quantum mechanics to keep track of the superposition states of gender and the entirely unpredictable way they collapse when they come up against mundane reality.
This stabbing too, the perpetrator is in fact, a man:
https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/crime/2024/07/19/police-arrest-woman-accused-of-stabbing-miracle-hill-employee/74468627007/