MISGENDERING IS NOT A CRIME
Leicestershire Constabulary and its pursuit of ‘woke’ points
Up and down the UK we still see various constabularies posting on social media about transgender issues generally and, in particular, supposed ‘hate’ incidents in relation to gender identity. A few weeks ago, for example, the Home Secretary gave a serious dressing down to Sussex Police for tweeting what was, in effect, an attempt to ‘police pronouns’. The Force issued an apology and deleted the Tweets involved.
In addition, there have been several stories over recent months of various police forces going to the homes of individuals following complaints made about online activity or similar alleged ‘hate incidents’.
In July, Darren Brady was arrested by Hampshire Police for ‘causing anxiety’ by reposting a meme on Twitter which drew the ire of sections of the trans lobby. The ‘offending’ image was a composite of four ‘Pride Flags’ arranged so as to produce a Swastika originally posted on Twitter by Lawrence Fox. The point of the image was, of course, to highlight the very concerning trend within the trans movement towards authoritarian tactics that seek to hinder free speech. Whilst it may not have been the most elegant way of achieving this aim, it isn’t a criminal offence to repost such an image (aven if it did lead to the Twitter police temporarily suspending Lawrence Fox). For those of a sensitive disposition I have posted a copy of Fox’s Tweet at the end of this article rather than here. The police went so far on that occasion as to invite Mr Brady to a ‘re-education’ course in order to avoid prosecution. The ‘hate crime awareness course’ that has since been scrapped.
Also in July, Kellie-Jay Keen found herself visited by Wiltshire Police following a complaint about a video she had posted relating to safeguarding issues. She was told that she had been ‘untoward about paedophiles’. The police had not even identified the video in question, let alone viewed it, in advance of their visit. The Police and Crime Commissioner for the area has since accepted that the visit was not entirely a ‘proportionate’ response.
In August, a woman received a visit from a police community support officer who proceeded to bully her mercilessly about a sticker in her window that said, ‘Trans Ideology Erases Women’. Dennis Kavanagh wrote a Substack on the incident which goes into detail about the woman’s ordeal (his wasn’t the only commentary); suffice it to say that the officer involved was pushing elements of trans ideology in a most aggressive and intimidatory way.
These are by no means isolated incidents. There is a theme here and it is not difficult to discern. Police forces, like many other public institutions, have been colonised by an ideological cult that promotes a male-supremacist agenda.
The vast majority of the UK population does not accept that a person can change biological sex. Of course, most people strive to be ‘kind’ and couldn’t care less how other people dress, what others want to call themselves or which adults other people want to have consensual sex with. What the majority will not accept, however, are the consequences of pandering to the alleged ‘hurt feelings’ of non-dysphoric men who are not content to be seen as gender non-conforming but insist they are actually women and are entitled to colonise women’s sports, prisons, hospital wards, changing rooms, toilets etc.
These biological males, and the men and women who seem willing to ignore reality and truth in order to support them, opine that they genuinely believe the mantras they regularly spout forth, although most must know full well that they are lying. ‘Trans women are women’ and the particularly vacuous ‘trans rights are human rights’ trip off their tongues regularly. However, because the whole ideology is not based upon any credible scientific evidence for the existence of ‘gender identity’, those who promote it have to do so in an authoritarian manner that brooks no argument - hence the ‘no debate’ approach that is used to prevent any form of meaningful discourse. A corollary to this is the need to police and control speech and to create an atmosphere of fear and intimidation.
A particular objective of activists is the silencing of women and the erasure of any form of sex-based rights. In order to be ‘validated’ these men cannot afford biological sex to be determinative of anything, be that eligibility to compete in female sport categories or, even, the very idea of what a woman actually is. If biology is allowed a look-in, the whole theoretical edifice will collapse.
This is why, since Stonewall added the ‘T’ in 2015, we have seen organisations in both the private and the public sector adopt a modern iteration of patriarchal attitudes. By way of example, homosexuality is now defined by activists as same-gender attraction and not same-sex attraction (despite the latter being the legal definition contained in the Equality Act 2010). It is there in plain sight on Stonewall’s website. Only in this way can men claim to be women and lesbians whilst keeping their male genitals and retaining a sexual attraction to real women.
For the ideology to survive long-term, the distorted reality that underpins it has to be bolstered by forced speech, amongst other things. There is no better way to do this than enlist the nation’s police forces as the enforcement wing. This has been achieved, in part, by a huge investment of time and energy into training, much of which has been undertaken by Stonewall. The examples above relating to Sussex Police is indicative, as is the post below on behalf of Leicestershire Constabulary. It is time for politicians from all parties to grasp the nettle and ensure the police return to being focussed on the detection and prosecution of those crimes that affect the average citizen as opposed to being a mouthpiece for a misogynistic and homophobic political ideology. In order for this to happen, those of us who believe in telling the truth about biology have to step up, even if only in small ways.
Below is the Tweet made by Leicestershire Police a few days ago followed by my email to Leicestershire’s Police and Crime Commissioner. If i get a response, I will update this post.
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‘Dear Sir,
Below is a tweet posted by the constabulary for which you are responsible.
1. The person in the photo your Force has used is, quite clearly, a male, however he might wish to identify.
2. Telling the truth is not a crime.
3. ‘Misgendering’ a person is not a crime.
4. ‘Misgendering’ a person is not, therefore, a hate crime.
5. Why is your Force misquoting the law in this area? Is it plain and simple ignorance (which would be bad enough in itself) or is it because your Force now sees itself as an enforcer of Stonewall law?
6. Of all the categories of hate crime within Leicestershire, incidents related to gender are by far the least common and they are also significantly less serious than all other categories of hate crime. Why, then, would your Force decide to use THIS particular example if it wanted to reach a sympathetic wide audience in the hope of reducing hate crimes?
7. This type of behaviour brings your force into serious disrepute. Do you really think that pandering to the feelings of a very tiny minority, most of whom are not dysphoric in the slightest, is an appropriate and efficient use of your Force’s limited resources?
8. Where are the Force’s tweets about tackling burglary, rape and other forms of serious crime, especially those of violence against women and girls?
Please take action to ensure your Force desists from promulgating a false interpretation of the law and, instead, puts more energy into solving real crime that affects the lives of the vast majority of the citizens who live in your area.
With respect to hate crime in general, perhaps focussing on, say, racially motivated crime might be of more benefit and would not invite the degree of ridicule that is evident from the responses to this Tweet.
I hope you will take this complaint seriously. It reflects the views of the vast majority of people who have responded to the Tweet in question. I expect nothing less than a comprehensive response addressing the points I have raised and I sincerely hope that you, at least, are not ‘captured’ by a misogynistic ideology that puts mens feelings above everything else, especially the well-being of women and girls.
I look forward to your response which I will make public. ‘
Lawrence Fox’s Tweet
