The Times- Police criticised for calling trans woman ‘a person convicted of rape’
Police criticised for calling trans woman ‘a person convicted of rape’ Lexi Secker was found guilty on Friday of a rape committed in 2021 when a pre-surgery man, but Wiltshire police used the terms ‘person’ and ‘she’ in a statement new Lara Wildenberg Wednesday June 26 2024, 2.35pm BST, The Times Secker was living as a man at the time of the attack on the woman after a night out on April 23, 2021 in Blunsdon, Wiltshire ALAMY Police have been criticised for describing a transgender woman who attacked a woman after a night out as a “person convicted of rape”. Lexi Secker, 35, of Lowbourne, near Melksham, was found guilty of rape on Friday after a four-day trial at Swindon Crown Court. Secker was living as a man at the time of the attack on the woman after a night out on April 23, 2021 in Blunsdon, Wiltshire. The offence was recorded by police as being committed by a male. Last week, however, the court tried Secker as a woman, while Wiltshire police referred to Secker as both a “person” a...