#vcoding

Here in Greece, a very young woman has died of a heart attack caused by drug use as a result of neglect. Three people have been arrested because they were present in the hotel room. Two of them are cis men, one of them a well-known athlete. The third suspect is a transgender woman who was a friend of the victim and seems to be the one who actually called the ambulance. But you wouldn't know that she was a woman if you were to listen to the news outlets. Everywhere you look, she's being called a "23-year-old man". A couple of sources briefly mention that she "had a double life" and that she "dresses up in women's clothes to have sex with men in order to survive" and use her real name in quotation marks as if it is a drag persona or something. I also saw a few publications that wanted to acknowledge what they consider her true gender/sex and the fact that she's "deviant", so they ended up characterising her as a "trans/transexual man". I really thought that she was ftm for a brief window of time, because most of these sources called her that without elaborating further. In general though, you had to deliberately look out to find articles mentioning such "details". The way she was almost universally simply called a man makes my skin crawl, especially as a trans person myself.