A man has been jailed for 16 months for beating up a transgender woman after discovering she had male genitalia.
Suhel Sood, 34, attacked his 'attractive' victim, who has not been named for legal reasons, during an encounter at a party in Reading in which she performed a sex act on him.
Sood reached down towards the woman's privates and found that she had male genitalia, Reading Crown Court heard on Monday.
He roared: 'You're a man!' before launching a brutal assault on the woman, punching her repeatedly and slamming her head down on a washing machine.
The victim was called a 'dog' and forced by Sood to mop up her own blood before he allowed her to leave the party on November 14 2020.
She had arrived earlier in the evening with a married man who was believed to be her partner.
The court heard how the woman had been left with two black eyes and 'one continuous huge bruise from the thigh to the knee.'
Sood was cleared of sexual assault but jailed for 16 months after he admitted assault causing actual bodily harm.
A man has been jailed for 16 months for beating up a transgender woman after discovering she had male genitalia. Suhel Sood, 34, attacked his 'attractive' victim, who has not been named, during an encounter at a party in Reading in which she performed a sex act on him
Prosecutor Oliver Weetch told the court that the assault 'arose entirely from Mr Sood discovering that she [the victim] was transgender and thereafter assaulting her.'
Tom Holmes, defending, asked the judge not to sentence Sood on the basis that he targeted the victim based on prejudice.
'His behaviour on that night was of course despicable. It gives an impression of him as a reckless, aggressive and frankly unlikable human being,' Holmes said.
