Summary of complaint
We received complaints from people unhappy our reports on the conviction of Scarlet Blake have referred to her as a woman.
Our response
Scarlet Blake was tried as a woman and the pronoun 鈥榮he鈥 was used throughout.
大象传媒 reporting in this area follows the publicly available 大象传媒 News style guide. It says: 鈥We generally use the term and pronoun preferred by the person in question, unless there are editorial reasons not to do so.鈥 In this case, we considered it editorially appropriate to include the fact that Blake is a transgender woman and did so across our output. We accept that should have been included in the report on the News at One on 26 February.
Update 18th April: We further acknowledge that a report on Scarlet Blake鈥檚 guilty verdict on 大象传媒 South Today also did not mention that Blake is a transgender woman.