Learning to say sorry when we mess up is important. It’s important when you’re a rambunctious 3 year old smashing up plants, it’s important when you’re an adult and an editor forced to publish bigotry, and it’s important when you’re a prominent community voice trying to lead by example. It’s important to recognise and understand what you have done wrong and then to apologise, sincerely, for having done it.
I would go on and dissect more of this UCLan style guide but its really all just the same. A complete disregard for transgender lives and an attempt to make transphobia easier to practice in the media for bigots. The point isn’t fairness, equality, accuracy or balance. Its simply to create a double standard wherein the actual identity of a transgender person becomes part of the story – something that is literally never on the table when cisgender people commit crimes.