Reported to @IpsoNews for breach of accuracy.
The use of the word 'female' in the headline and text is inaccurate and misleading. The story is based on crime statistics recorded by the police. The police do not record the birth sex of an individual in crime records. /1
The use of the word 'female' in the headline and text is inaccurate and misleading. The story is based on crime statistics recorded by the police. The police do not record the birth sex of an individual in crime records. /1
https://twitter.com/fairplaywomen/status/1351653711014227974
They record someone's self declared gender. This means the statement such as 'female paedophiles has almost doubled' cannot be made based on these statistics. The statistics quoted to show the increase includes both sexes; it includes women born female and transwomen born male /2
Readers understand the word 'female' to mean someone born the female sex. A headline saying 'female paedophiles almost doubles' and accompanying text "an 84% increase in female perpetrated child sexual abuse" misleads readers and therefore breaches the Editors Code on Accuracy /3
Failure to report statistics accurately distorts public perception, in this case making unsubstantiated claims specifically about people who share a protected characteristic (female sex) /4
fairplayforwomen.com/sex_data_wrong/
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fairplayforwomen.com/sex_data_wrong/
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