As a circle devoted to aggregating news stories, we want to make it easy for visitors to search by time, location, and incident, as well as increasing the ease of checking for already posted stories. With that in mind, please format the title of your link post accordingly:
[Location/Country][Location/US State] News article title [Criminal's Name]
For example:
[USA][CA] News Article Title [John Smith]
Rules for posting:
What is a relevant story?
Because news outlets tend to use the "No True Scotsman" excuse for transgender offenders, if they mention their trans status at all, it is important to use your discretion in posting. Mods will also use their own discretion in approving posts to maintain an accurate database. The concept and word "transgender" was not used until recently, and we know that gender identity is subjective and thus impossible to objectively define, so we have to post by certain "tells" of transgenderism that include cross dressing.
However, our stance is not that men cannot wear feminine clothing (a regressive notion that got us here in the first place), but that sex separate spaces for women limit opportunities for male violence and being able to eject a clearly male person from a women's bathroom or private space is an important right. With self-ID laws in place in many parts of the US and being pushed in the UK, there is no way for any of us to know that a man in a woman's bathroom, along with certain tells, is or is not transgender. It is also often taboo to mention that a perpetrator is transgender in news reports, so this fact is often left unstated. We post in this gray space. Please use your best judgement and recognize that mods will choose to accept posts based on their own best judgement as well in order to maintain a high quality database of incidents.
Why are you doing this?
Allowing male, transgendered identified males into women's sex separate spaces opens up to men (regardless of felt identity) an exploitable loophole that can lead to crime.
The reporting of male crime as female-perpetrated also distorts female crime statistics and public perception. Without accurate reporting of male violence, women as a class cannot lead a movement or gather resources to counter and improve their lives.
The ThisNeverHappens circle was created as a resource to open dialogue on these issues that trans activists have tried to suppress. It speaks to the fallacy that "these things never happen" and to shifts the narrative to "these things sometimes happen--what do we do about them? How do we protect women?"
This is an evolving set of guidelines that will be added to as new suggestions and delineations appear.