Rapists and robbers can walk free, but if someone refers to a born man as an actual man...he can be jailed.
The world has gone mad.
"A person who purposely calls someone by the wrong gender pronoun could be jailed for a hate crime under a Labour government.
The opposition would make attacks motivated by hatred of the victim's gender identity into “'aggravated offences”.
This would bring transphobic abuse into line with assault and harassment motivated by hatred on the grounds of race or religion, which are punishable by up to two years in prison."
It has always been an offence to cause someone distress or alarm or fear by using offensive or threatening words or behaviour in a public place. If there's a racially motivated element to it, it's considered to be 'aggravated' and therefore a bit more serious. This proposal seems to be around making transphobic-motivated public order a similarly aggravated offence. It's nothing to do with being sent to jail simply for calling someone the wrong gender, that's simply Daily Express exaggeration.
All papers want to grab the headlines, nothing new there either.
What is new is the influx of gender confusion, a minority of them will be actively seeking out confrontation, and they will have the law on their sides to actually send people to prison.
All papers want to grab the headlines, nothing new there either.
What is new is the influx of gender confusion, a minority of them will be actively seeking out confrontation, and they will have the law on their sides to actually send people to prison.
That's true. Certainly now in cases of racially or religiously aggravated public order offences (aka hate crime) t's enough to treat it that way if the victim perceives it as racially motivated, and it will be treated that way even if the police don't agree. If laws are extended to include homophobic/ transgender etc as aggravating factors then the same would apply. I's worth adding that public order offences don't necessarily end up with the suspect in court, the police can dispose of them in other ways like a community resolution or a caution. And also to add that although currently in law there's no such thing as an aggravated homophobic/ transphobic hate crime, courts will still take into account those aggravating elements if they get flagged up.
