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PaperclipPerfector  26d ago (text post)   3315 thread views

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Not sure where to raise this, but some of the deadnaming/gender recognition stuff is insane.

I was bingeing True Crime and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire_murders pronouns/identities have been retroactively changed for a Murderer who post-crime decided to transition, which just feels weird to me

Did you see the bio of the enforcer on the talk page?

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I need to reread the bioleninism series.

I'm fascinated that Hayes' deadname was even listed on the Wikipedia page -- I thought even for such horrendous people the policy was never to use a deadname. Was it the "then Linda raped the woman he kidnapped" part that made it necessary to clarify this was a bepenised individual?

But really what upsets me is that there was a strong feeling in the state of Connecticut that this was a profoundly evil case that deserved the death penalty, so much so that it delayed the abolition of capital punishment there. And then, like always, the Supreme Court of CT just goes and declares it unconstitutional anyway, because heaven forbid the legislature proscribe punishments for crimes according to the popular will in a democracy. I'm weakly anti-death-penalty, but I take the John Roberts in Obergefell approach to the issue: in a democracy, such issues should be won by winning hearts and minds, not using judicial power to override the people's will, which "wins" without winning. If your concern over the death penalty is the sacred value of human life, imposing bans on capital punishment by fiat does nothing to create a culture that values life.

I had no particular knowledge of the case coming into the article, felt it was weird that it was a female/male duo perpetrating (especially when the article had the female party be very hands on with the violence and whatnot) then it dawned on me.

A generation of crime stats have been contaminated because of recording the perpetrator's claimed gender identity rather than their sex. Twenty years from now, criminologists will be baffled as to why the UK saw such a massive spike in "female" sex crimes over the course of five years, which then regressed to the mean in a heartbeat.

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