Anyway, I'm not surprised the asshat man-to-woman transgender raped a woman due to her sexual orientation. However, rape can also be tied to power so sexual orientation may not always be in mind. OK, I'm bowing out of this one. Please, any transgenders join in to express your views here.

Okay. Trans woman well through transitioning and all that fun stuff, rape victim from childhood, undergrad college. Can confirm that some of us/them are weird indeed, and asshats like her give us translgbtqwertyghjkl* folk a bad name. The constant fragmentation and infighting within trans and lgbt groups doesn't help much either, on reddit/tumblar especially. It's hard to feel sympathetic with the ridiculous way that the sun portrays her, knowing that she raped someone, but it still isn't a respectful way to treat someone. I don't think news will be written like this is twenty years.

I'm gonna guess side effects of hormone treatments he started recently.

Yeah.. no. Mine and pretty much every other trans woman I've known have found that experience to be completely opposite of what you've described. Within a few weeks (days, for me) the male sex drive is extinguished and things down there begin to shrink. Androgen-blocking drugs convince your body to not produce testosterone (or in extremely low quantities) and shrink the testes/affect fertility, and the loss of spontaneous erections results in the penis being shorter. When erections did happen every ~month, they were painful and insufficient for sex.There is no way that hormones influenced her to commit rape.

Pre-op transsexual...Pre-op transsexual...Pre-op transsexual ... .... .... .... OH! You mean a man!

Yeah... no.. Genital correction surgery is not the only arbiter of transition. It really has been one of the less helpful things during transition. The vast majority of people you encounter see your face, your presentation, your voice (well, hear) and dress attire. Very few people aside from my boyfriend concerned themselves with my genitals. Although pants fitting more comfortably is pretty nice. In short, genital surgery is usually one of the final surgical/transitioning "steps" that one takes. It requires jumping though quite a few hoops. The outcome of one surgery didn't change my sex/gender identity/what have you, transitioning from age 14 to 21 did.

Trial judge Peter Heywood has agreed to refer to Williams, who has legally changed his her name to Nadine, as "Miss" during proceedings.

If the defendant has a functioning penis which he she has allegedly used to penetrate and rape a woman, the you DON'T call the defendant Miss

Why exactly not? Would you refer to her by her gender had she raped him with something else?

It doesn't matter what you do to yourself on the outside, on the inside you are what you are. If you're confused about that, check your DNA and your chromosomes. If your psychology doesn't match your physiology, then fix the one that's broken. Hint: It's not your body that's the problem.

What makes DNA and chromosomes the sole deciding factor of her gender? Chromosomes can and usually do impact physical sex (what you're born with, basically) but are completely irrelevant to gender identity and presentation. I did fix the one that was broken. Go on and invent a way to drug away gender dysphoria, and in the mean time, we'll continue to transition so we can have fix what was wrong and have fulfilling lives.

/probably going to get so many notes attached to my handle
//life story tldr: raped at 8, started blocking testosterone at 16, full hormone treatment and driver's license/papers switched at 17-18, facial and genital corrective surgeries last summer
///slashies belong in threes