As a subreddit devoted to aggregating news stories, we want to make it easy for visitors to search by time, location, and incident, as well as check for already posted stories. With that in mind, please format the title of your link post accordingly:

[Location/Country][Location/US State] News article title [Criminal's Name]

With flair assigned (in squiggly brackets), it would look something like this:

{MALE 2018} [USA][CA] News Article Title [John Smith]

Rules for posting:

• If the criminal has both a TiM and male name in the article then please bracket both. The MALE flair is there to distinguish that some "Jessicas" are not actually a Jessica.
• You are encouraged to re-word the article to clarify the crime and perpetrator if it has been intentionally obscured. For example: "Woman Stabs Two People in Grocery Store" would become "Transgender Identified Male Stabs Two People in Grocery Store."
• Many people who use this subreddit are looking for proof of crimes in specific spaces ("this never happens" assertions are often about violations of sex specific spaces), so please include descriptors of where the crime occurred in your title when relevant.
• All posts should come from news sites. Please post reddit threads with "no participation" links ONLY and in comments when they are relevant (for example: when other source links are given or meaningfully discussed). Do not PM or harass users. Post only what has already been made public.
• We know violence against women by TRAs on social media is rampant, but please send your screenshots to the TerfIsASlur website or subreddit r/terfisaslur. This sub is for crime news stories specifically.
• Post an archive link as a comment on your own post in case the article is one day taken down. https://archive.is/ and https://archive.org/web/ are good options.
• You are also welcome to, additionally, copy and paste the article text into a comment. This is not required but still appreciated.
• We use the terms: TiM = transgender identified male (a man) and TiF = transgender identified female (a woman)

And no, these are objectively factual acronyms, not snide shorthand.

• Absolutely no threats of violence to other posters, the subjects of the news articles, or the world at large. This is not a place to vent your revenge fantasies. It doesn't help our cause and is wrong.

What is a relevant story?

Because news outlets tend to use the "No True Scotsman" excuse for transgender offenders, if they mention their trans status at all, it is important to use your discretion in posting. Mods will also use their own discretion in approving posts to maintain an accurate database. The concept and word "transgender" was also not used until recently, and we know that gender identity is subjective and thus impossible to objectively define, so we have to post by certain "tells" of transgenderism that include cross dressing.

However, our stance is not that men cannot wear feminine clothing (a regressive notion that got us here in the first place), but that sex separate spaces for women limit opportunities for male violence and being able to eject a clearly male person from a women's bathroom or private space is an important right. With self-ID laws in place in many parts of the US and being pushed in the UK, there is no way for any of us to know that a man in a woman's bathroom, along with certain tells, is or is not transgender. It is also not on trend to state this fact in news reports, so it is often left unstated. We post in this gray space.

Why are you doing this?

Allowing male, transgendered identified males into women's sex separate spaces opens up to men (regardless of felt identity) an exploitable loophole that can lead to crime.

The reporting of male crime as female-perpetrated also distorts female crime statistics and public perception. Without accurate reporting of male violence, women as a class cannot lead a movement or gather resources to counter and improve their lives.

r/thisneverhappens was created to open dialogue on these issues that trans activists have tried to suppress. It speaks to the fallacy that "these things never happen" and to shifts the narrative to "these things sometimes happen--what do we do about them? How do we protect women?"

This is an evolving set of guidelines that will be added to as new suggestions and delineations appear.