BBC article has been reported to police as a "Hate Crime".

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That BBC article has been reported to the Met Police as a "Hate Crime". And it seems that others are now going to follow suit and perhaps even inundate the Met with this silly and vexatious claim.

Just when you think they cannot do anything more bonkers, they surprise you again.... and again.

Do they not have freedom of the press?

I'm surprised at Christine; for a hate crime to be recorded, a crime should have taken place.

The article was about lesbians, who have the protected characteristic of sexual orientation. A man pressuring a lesbian to have sex with him might be guilt of a hate incident.

It will be interesting to see which way the police jump on this one will they actually go after the BBC?

🙄 is that the sound of desperation I hear? As the house of cards starts to topple?

Inaccurate reporting (even if it were) isn’t a crime. Otherwise a lot more people would be in prison!

www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-57853385

TRA's like to redefine 'hate crime' as other people having different opinions or beliefs.

Quite aside from the idiocy of reporting that article as a hate crime, I do wonder about the following:

How many of the transwomen who insist lesbians should sleep with them would themselves have sex with another transwoman? Surely if genitals don't matter they just don't?

I imagine some transwomen are attracted to men. Are these men subjected to the same kind of treatment that some lesbians get?

is that the sound of desperation I hear? As the house of cards starts to topple?

Yes, yes it is. I fucking love Genderists like Christine. Keep it up, you are doing fabulous work recruiting for us.

There is a way to feedback anonymously to the BBC to show support in their decision to report the truth:
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comments-feedback/#/Your%20comment

@Whatsnewpussyhat

TRA's like to redefine 'hate crime' as other people having different opinions or beliefs.

This isn't even differing opinions. This is 'people saying things about us that make us look bad' should be regarded as a hate crime. Even if those things are their real lived experiences, they can't talk about them.

Hope they go viral with this campaign. A 12,000% rise in recorded transphobic hate crimes might sound like great news for TRAs, but I think it would shed a lot of sunlight on the “hate crime” statistics.

Another way to send the message that sex matters is to sign this petition:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/590123

Don’t the Met police have other issues to deal with at the present? Like the rapists and murderers in their service?

[quote Enough4me]There is a way to feedback anonymously to the BBC to show support in their decision to report the truth:
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comments-feedback/#/Your%20comment[/quote]
I've sent in a positive comment.

God they really are disgusting. I just don't understand how they can do it and not be ashamed.

I note that gay men who don't fancy transmen don't seem to get the same vilification. I wonder why....

Crikey. I was glad the bbc were shining a bit of sunlight on this issue. I wasn't expecting loads of TRAs to throw open the curtains and show their tactics to the bbc higher ups, the government and now the police!

Excellent. I can hear Stephen Nolan's hands rubbing together from here.

Good job it wasn't published in Scotland

I mean if you want to deny that nothing about your ideology is coercive, trying to get every challenge to it shut down, deleted, discredited and, now, er, criminalised, probably isn't demonstrating what you think it is.

Can someone tell them (and the police) that a hate crime is a crime with a hate element, not a bloody whinge to teacher that someone’s hurt your feelings.

In some US states, the police (with DA approval) automatically start proceedings against anyone who has made what they believe is a false, vexatious, or oppressive crime report. (This is in addition to any claim the target of a false report can make; in this case the money doesn't go to the victim but to the state). Most people aren't prepared for this and end up having to get a lawyer and settle to avoid the rather massive fines. Even the settlement is enough money to be a deterrent though. Seems like that'll be the way the UK will have to go too if people keep being utter narcissistic children every time they don't get exactly their way.

I don't get this at all.

Doing articles saying some X people say y is happening. With interviews. Is standard normal everyday stuff.

I mean I've seen loads of articles about trans people of a range of genders talking about lack of understanding, waiting lists etc.

I find the total knee jerk about anything/ anyone seen as having said the wrong thing as really very strange. Esp as it's usually something that has been happily cited if says the right thing.

The guardian has been turned on and the BBC now as well. You'd think there would be some. Running out here maybe time for something other than nodebate/ hate crime etc.

But instead of thinking again, it's getting worse. Including those you'd think would have more nous- media types.

@Enough4me thanks for the link, I've sent in some positive feedback, along with my concerns about TRA tactics to prevent free speech and saying that the BBC cannot be independent unless it cuts ties to the political lobbyist Stonewall, which deliberately misrepresents the law for its own ends.

I didn't know rapists are a protected class. Every day you learn something new.

Possibly the most protected of them all.