About five years ago every news outlet in the UK would have affirmed pronouns and outright described men as women.  That's slowly shifted - now there's a variety of terms: 'trans woman', trans-identifying man, trans man, biological male who identifies as a woman and so on.  Sometimes different sections of the same outlet use different language for the same thing: sometimes an outlet will be enthusiastic about covering difficult 'trans' stories but will have an absolute block on using accurate pronouns. 

It's difficult territory to navigate so we hope the next pages will help you find that accuracy is always possible without breaking any law of reglatory code.