For those "well, actually" dipthongs:

Every major British outlet who covered her murder neglected to include the word/prefix "trans" in any part of their articles. That may have been later fixed, but that was their editorial choice in initial reporting.

UK law is draconian and weird. Even *if* she can be buried under the right name, she won't be buried as a daughter on her death certificate or headstone.

The police are claiming it wasn't a hate crime and are looking for other motives.

@artemis

I daresay the lattermost is incredibly disturbing.

Police are looking for a reason, *any* reason, to deny a hate crime motivation. There might be reasons for this! It might involve more paperwork. It'd certainly involve more work on the parts of both prosecution and defense. But that's an excuse, and disastrously flimsy.

The immediate minimization, if not outright denial, of the most obvious motivation, however, is akin to taking an unlikely motivation and putting it forth as probable. When dealing with the stabbing of a sixteen-year-old girl, the null hypothesis that it was merely an attack of opportunity may stand -- but the second, nearly as likely possibility, is just as tall.

In two days a correction MIGHT be published. If so, it'll be in six-point text at the bottom of an article on page 18 about how a public lavatory has been defaced with a 'beware of the leopard' poster.