Police Scotland and the silencing of women

[Ifyourefeelingsinister]

Anyone else in Scotland find this incredibly disturbing? A woman (who has not committed a violent crime) is threatened with her children being taken into care in response to someone complaining about tweets she has put up. She has no idea what the offending tweets are - they are so offending that she must attend a police station with a holding cell, yet at the same time she has yet to be informed what they are, so they are still up.

Is this proportionate policing? Or is it just another way to silence difficult women? Women, who feel quite rightly imo, that they have the right to debate the re-definition of the word 'woman'.

twitter.com/millar_marion/status/1396039074239164423

Here is her thread for anyone not able to see Twitter link:

'On Wednesday April the 28th 2021 I received a call from a PC Laura Daley from
@policescotland
requesting i attend an interview for homophobic and transphobic tweets under the milacious communications act.
I was asked to attend that coming Friday, she told me I had to attend East Kilbride police station so I could be then transported to Cathcart police station in a police car because I would have to go to a police station where there is holding cells, I would be then processed, questioned and then most likely charged.
I told her I would not be attending any interview on that day especially with it being a bank holiday weekend because my autistic twins needed me and I was scared I would be held all weekend.
To this she told me she would attend my house with social workers for my boys. I contacted a solicitor straight away and he was unable to get PC Daley so for the first bank holiday in May I sent my disabled twins away for fear of this officer carrying out this threat.
This absolute nonsense has been hanging over my head for a month, I can barely sleep. or eat and I still don't know what the offending tweet is, my new interview has been scheduled for Thursday the 27th May, I will find out what I am supposed to have said at that point and if I will be indeed charged, again at another bank holiday'

There's an FWR thread about this: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4251696-Scottish-woman-told-would-be-charged-for-homophobic-and-transphobic-tweets

Between this and sticker gate also posted about on feminism chat, things are quite concerning.

Exactly, selkies. I think it's important Scottish women who don't necessarily browse the feminism part of Mumsnet are aware of what's going on.

This will get worse when the SNP’s Hate Crime Bill is fully implemented. Women will have no freedom of speech against Trans rights activists. And women are the only group not protected by that law.

I think that some would be horrified if they popped over to feminism and read about both of these cases.

@Babdoc

This will get worse when the SNP’s Hate Crime Bill is fully implemented. Women will have no freedom of speech against Trans rights activists. And women are the only group not protected by that law.

Yes - Scottish government said something along the lines that belief would be protected under the hate crime bill. But these two incidents give me no confidence that this will be the case.

How long before some poor health care worker or biology teacher gets reported for stating the existence of biological sex?

"How long before some poor health care worker or biology teacher gets reported for stating the existence of biological sex?"

Ah, but apparently that's OK, because once it got to court they probably wouldn't be convicted. That's why specific protections against this kind of thing weren't allowed to be included wasn't it? Never mind the trauma that even being brought to court will bring on its own, or the knock on effect of silencing other dissenting voices. Truly terrifying stuff, yet apparently this is what half the country wants!

Yes that's my worry - v unlikely to be found guilty of any crime, but imagine the stress and anxiety? And the heavy handed approach of the police in this instance really concerns me - zero confidence that vexatious reports would be dismissed as such.

Welcome to the SNP and the hate crime Bill. Yet people still vote them in. If they were turkeys they would vote for Christmas

I believe the Act mentioned came into place in 2003.

Here we go

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