Greater Manchester Police claim “terf is not a slur”

[SlipperyLizard]

Unfortunately the tweet has now been deleted so you can’t see how royally Liam was getting his arse handed to him on Twitter, but here’s the original tweet in case your blood pressure isn’t high enough already today.

"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.)

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

Anyone who thinks it is a slur has issues.

People who have issues use it as slur.

Close, but no cigar.

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.

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.

Apparently they've now tweeted and apologised.

twitter.com/GMPCityCentre/status/1091471292187009024

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

Fit for purpose systems

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The fact there's an investigation is promising

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

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?

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.

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

I’m guessing this is related 😆

If trans means to move away how come transwomen think they are moving towards womanhood?

Moving away from reality, perhaps?

This is my favourite reply on the GMPolice feed:

It’s illuminating that ‘TERF’ is just descriptive whereas ‘woman: adult human female’ is hate speech.

HandsOffMyRights what a great reply!! Exactly the point!

I think Liam should be "sentenced" to the "gulag" and be required to attend at least three WPUK meetings to redress his previous indoctrination.

I struggle to be offended by a made-up acronym used as a word, that I had never heard until recently.

But “Fucking terf! is definitely offensive and “Whack that terf!” is threatening.