Greater Manchester Police claim “terf is not a slur”

He really ought to be getting a visit from 5 police and a horse by now shouldn’t he? All that hate speech etc...

TERF to my ears always sounds like calling Christians “Allah Exclusionary Theists” or calling Hindus “christ exclusionary theists”.

So yes it might be just a descriptor but it’s focussing a school of thought/philosophy/religion on things that aren’t to do with it, which is infuriating.

Just a descriptor. Anyone who thinks it is a slur has issues.

Fuckwit
Wanker
Clodpoll
Twat
Bastard
Muppet
Cockalorum
Pillock
Milksop
Ninnyhammer
Whoreson
Mouth breather
Bellend
Cock
Dickhead

All descriptors... which would you happily accept as your public prefix, forever?

Wow, I’m shocked, they’re actually investigating. No doubt some woke dude has misused their social media

Not a descriptor either... most of us against self ID aren’t radical feminists

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The fact there's an investigation is promising

Fit for purpose systems

Well said Jacky

I have long thought women need to withhold taxes until the police, welfare and legal systems deliver for purpose systems for women and children - which they don’t at present

The police seem to lack appropriate leadership across many forces in manpower planning and competency building to ensure women are dealt with appropriately- sexism and misogyny from any service is unacceptable- in whatever guise

twitter.com/GMPCityCentre/status/1091471292187009024

Apparently they've now tweeted and apologised.

Cis is simply Latin...

It’s interesting how some people are so pedantic about certain aspects of language, but not others. Homo as a prefix comes from the Greek meaning “the same” and hetero comes from the Greek meaning “opposite”. So homosexuals are people who are attracted to people who are the same sex as themselves (they are not homogenderists after all). And the word woman means adult human female, not whatever an individual wants it to mean - thereby essentially rendering it meaningless.

Wasn't it Manchester police who supported that 'keep TXrfs out of the gay village' campaign?
Yes VickieEadie I thought that too. Imagine an official police tweet about a recidivist offender being imprisoned saying ‘Another old lag banged up’ and then tweeting that ‘old lag’ was just a descriptor.

Anyone who thinks it is a slur has issues.

People who have issues use it as slur.

Close, but no cigar.

Yep thats the point, there's issue with it being used.

Just a descriptor. Anyone who thinks it is a slur has issues.

Who told this twonk that cis means 'remain' in Latin?
It means 'near side', as in Cisalpines - the name of the Alpine range that is nearest to Rome. Similarly 'trans' is Latin for 'far side' or 'opposite side' or 'cross over' (as in transport, Transiberian etc.).

'Cis' has only been used as a gender prefix for twenty years or so. Transexual/transgender was used for years before that - a logical use, since it described a 'crossing over' to the opposite gender. Then some German sexologist reckoned the world needed a word to describe non-trans women and men (never mind that 'woman' and 'man' are already perfectly adequate descriptors of the non-trans condition). Looking in his Latin dictionary he found that, etymologically speaking, cis is the opposite of trans - and bingo!

Yeah, me too. Here, have a glass!

Wasn't it Manchester police who supported that 'keep TXrfs out of the gay village' campaign?

Maybe our brothers and sisters in the police services across our country and our brothers and sisters in their associated civilian services need to be re-educated that women are taxpayers too .. and we pay their salaries.

Greater Manchester Police Service, Humberside Police service and all other Police Services need to be re-educated that they can only ever police us with our consent. One has to ask why our Police Services in UK are not delivering a full service to females.

Who told this twonk that cis means 'remain' in Latin?

"Cis is simply Latin..."

Caudex* is latin too

(*Blockhead according to Cambridge Latin course. It came with furcifer which translated as 'scoundrel' which is a little understated.)

Yeah, should we start a thread compiling evidence of police misogyny and gaslighting?

Alan Henness has screenshots on his Twitter account of the other, now deleted, tweets that were made by GMP. I can't link to the tweet, sorry.

What a load of sexist nonsense this is.

When Harry the Owl described, sorry no didn't describe, actually just liked a tweet by somebody else who described the factual anatomy of a transwoman, the police visited him for thought crime.

Just a description, my arse.

It's a slur and excludes trans men by default.

"Cis is simply Latin..."

Negro, anyone?

(And P*ki is simply Urdu for a pure person...)

And 'Paki' is just short for Pakistani yet somehow I don't think he'd be ok with people using that term these days.