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[–]BEB[S] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Sorry - "her" comes directly from the paper's title. I myself would never use "her" to describe a male.

[–]MarkTwainiac 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

As someone with experience in writing headlines and photo captions in the days of print, I can attest that there's no reason for the Mail to have used a pronoun at all. The headline could just as easily said

Transgender activist jailed for killing boyfriend and trying to rape shop assistant...

BTW, it should be noted that this story is from Feb 2018, so more than 3 years ago now.