Man feels manhood taken as trans woman 'did not reveal male genitalia before sex act'
A man felt robbed of his "manhood" after finding out his Snapchat date was transgender with male genitalia, a court has heard.
The man planned to meet up with Ciara Watkin after the pair exchanged messages on the photo sharing app. Teesside Crown Court heard how Watkin performed sex acts on the man at a home in Thornaby some years ago, but concealed she had male genitalia. She later messaged the man, admitting she had a "massive secret" to tell him, before revealing: "I'm trans. I'm sorry I didn't tell you."
In a police interview played in court, the alleged victim said: "All the way throughout she made out she was fully a girl." He said the pair had been drinking and chatting, before deciding to go into the bedroom "which is when everything happened". He said: "Throughout the full time, she was telling me she was on her period. It was like as far as I was concerned she was a female."
Asked how he felt about what had happened, the alleged victim replied: "It makes me feel like it's taken away my manhood. I see it as something that upsets me. I'm just trying to hide my emotions. At first I did just have an emotional breakdown."
The court heard in the man's evidence that Watkin had asked him to come into the bathroom when using the toilet and asked for the light to be switched off so it was "pitch black". The jury heard Watkin had moved his hand from the defendant's breast and thigh, Teeside Live reports.
Victoria Lamballe, defending Watkin, said the 21-year-old has had no gender reassignment surgery and had stuffed clothing inside of her bra. Watkin told the man over the phone about being transgender some time after the pair had met, the court heard.
In his police interview, the man said: "That's when she went and told me she was transgender but obviously still has a penis. I was shocked. If I knew she had a penis I wouldn't have got with her."
He told officers he "didn't swing that way". Ms Lamballe asked the man: "Is it really your position that at no point in the course of these hours that it never occurred to you that she may not be female?" He responded: "I thought she was a female".
Watkin, of Queen's Avenue, in Thornaby, denies two counts of sexual assault and one count of sexual assault by penetration. Paul Reid, prosecuting, told Teesside Crown Court on Tuesday that when arrested, Watkin told officers: "Me and him had sex without me telling him I was a boy. When I let him know I was a different gender, he didn't like it."
Outlining the prosecution's case, Mr Reid said: "She agreed that sexual activity had taken place."
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