Miranda in court

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I didn't realise Miranda Yardley was in court today over alleged transphobic harrasment.

Debbie Hayton
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At Basildon Magistrates Court where Miranda Yardley is on trial for transphobic Harassment. The prosecution applied for reporting restrictions to prevent the complainant Helen Islan from being named. The judge has not granted them. So Helen Islan can be named.

Sending Miranda good luck vibes.

Is this a private prosecution?

@EweSurname I don't think that article has anything to do with this, would you mind asking for your post to be deleted so we don't drag innocent people to this?

To show that Helen was a trans parent advocate

and that it might be because of this she was bringing a claim to court, even though she was cis.

Helen Islan giving evidence by video link.

That's interesting that at least two media people (plus cameras) are there - does this mean people are going to start reporting properly?

I'm intrigued to see how the woke manage to square the circle in this story.

Ack, sorry - have asked for it to be deleted

MrsBertBibby I imagine that it would relate to Miranda's tweets about Helen's very public positions on trans-related issues vis-a-vis Helen's trans-identified child. Miranda is banned from Twitter I think (unless he has a new account I don't know), but I'm sure Helen has kept lots of screenshots.

and for Miranda.

Will read all later but meanwhile best wishes to Miranda and I hope you have support there.

I'm more and more confused. Why would anonymity being refused make it difficult for Helen Islan to give evidence? And why is she doing so by video link rather than appearing in court? And is this a private or public case?

So many questions...

I don't quite know if it's kosher to link to Helen's twitter account, so I won't, but I recall that on various occasions Helen brought up things that had happened to her child at school or referenced her child's medication and so on, and Miranda may have replied in robust terms.

Helen's position AFAICT is:

(a) I'm going to pretend nobody knows who I am and I'm going to tweet personal information about my minor trans-identified child
(b) Nobody is allowed to disagree with that if they do it's harassment because my minor trans-identified child is entitled to privacy

Wonder who's paying for this? Are Mermaids helping out with some of their funding?

Interesting!

Oh I see. Helen identifies as anonymous.

Also Miranda has certainly linked Helen's twitter handle to her (very unusual and identifying) surname, however Helen herself did that originally and her surname appear indelibly in print attached to that handle in the Metro before she became a full-time Twitter activist.

Is the CPS funding this or is it a private prosecution, like the Guiliana fiasco?

Since the Judge referred to her as "your client" I assume it is a private prosecution. Unless it's a civil harassment claim.

I’m confused, what is the accusation against Miranda?

I.e.

1. Helen once set up a twitter using her full (and possibly unique) name and her current twitter handle and tweeted on it a lot, quite happily, and this was referenced and stored online because, yeah.
2. Helen started to become a 'trans mum' and tweeted about that.
3. A few months into being a 'trans mum', Helen decided that she wanted to be 'less' identifiable, and removed her surname from her twitter
4. Helen has complained to MN in the past when her surname has been posted her with her Twitter handle here

ItsAllGoingToBeFine

It's a public prosecution. Islan lives in Yorkshire, if I recall correctly. so my guess is that to reduce costs to the taxpayer, video linked evidence from a court approved local site, is granted. [Tax payer would have to cover travel and any accommodation costs otherwise.]

Cps according to the twitter thread.

Looking at mimmymum's twitter timeline, can't help but notice how very very little response she gets considering the number of followers.

Thanks Jacky

It appears to be a CPS prosecution, not a private one

twitter.com/englishchick/status/1101465475396128769

While I’m sorry this is happening to Miranda, good to see Mermaids attracting attention for all the right reasons.

Virulently homophobic charity finds a gender non-conforming, pro-women campaigner to harass through court.

This is surely the point where everyone can finally see that trans rights activism is doing absolutely fuck all to improve the lives of transpeople?

Yes, apparently Miranda is just the wrong type of trans person. She's doing trans all wrong and we're womaning wrong.

What a mess.