Commentary
In 2016 and 2019, a violent Scottish thug by the name of Adam Graham raped women he had met online. After being charged, he renamed himself Isla Bryson and assumed feminine lamination (wig, cosmetics, etc.) Graham did not have a gender recognition certificate, but was nevertheless remanded to Scotland’s only women’s prison, Cornton Vale. He was convicted in Glasgow High Court last month.
Nobody was fooled by Graham’s opportune gender epiphany. And yet, reflexively, the media almost invariably used “she/her” pronouns in their coverage of the trial. The Times said that “Bryson” had committed the crimes before “her” transition. Even the conservative Telegraph chose to avoid pronouns altogether by sticking with nouns throughout its account….