Man tells court how he found out his date was transgender after she performed sex act on him

By TOM LAWRENCE, NEWS REPORTER Published: 08:59 EDT, 21 August 2025 | Updated: 10:15 EDT, 21 August 2025 A man felt like his ‘manhood was taken away’ after finding out his date was transgender, a court heard. Ciara Watkin, 21, is standing trial accused of sexual assaulting a man after allegedly hiding her male genitalia from him. Teesside Crown Court heard how Watkin performed sex acts on the man at her home in Thornaby, North Yorkshire, after exchanging flirty messages on Snapchat. In a police interview played in court, the alleged victim said: ‘All the way throughout she made out she was fully a girl.’ He added: ‘We were drinking. We sat there for a while just chatting. We decided to go into the bedroom which is when everything happened.’ ‘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.’ Giving evidence, he said 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 that Watkin had moved his hand from the defendant’s breast
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