Has the BBC misgendered Isla Bryson?

Is even the BBC starting to accept reality on questions of sex and gender? The Corporation has often been woker than woke, not least thanks to militant internal staff groups seemingly ready to persecute colleagues who don’t adhere to doctrine on trans matters.

But the case of the Scottish double rapist Isla Bryson/Adam Graham has loosened the grip of trans orthodoxy on many previous believers. Several politicians, including candidates to replace Nicola Sturgeon as SNP leader, have said they accept that Bryson is not a transgender woman but is actually a man who claims he is trans.

Bryson was today sentenced to eight years for two rapes.  The BBC’s online report of this sentence has been written with great care to avoid almost any construction where a pronoun for the rapist is needed. Yet thirteen paragraphs into the otherwise painstaking copy, we find the following:

Lord Scott said Bryson had preyed on his victims because of their vulnerability and raped them in their own homes.