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.

Good luck Miranda & Debbie. Thank you for being so brave.

Trans person tried for transphobia. Victim is not trans.

The whole idea is utterly ludicrous. Like a bad sitcom.

and support for Miranda.

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The judge said that Helen being named is because the case is in the public interest.

I wonder if Islan genuinely feels harassed or if this is an entirely strategic action to silence a feminist ally....

hmm, Mumsnet messed up my link

Try this one hellywelly

miranda

no, that didn't work either, erm, here? bit.ly/2GTA4nF

This is gets worse each week; I wonder if this case arose via W York's police, if so hopefully someone will ask why they are at activists beck and call.

Good luck Miranda, sounds as though you have lots of rl support with you and even more virtual supporters. Hope the judge continues to see sense.

Oxygen! Sunlight! Disinfectant!

Singalong, everyone

"The wheels on the bus are falling off, falling off, falling off..."

Gosh, the judge realises the extent of the "public interest" .

Helen and Mermaids will have been completely thrown off course by that.

Oh how the tide has turned.

Mimmy mum uses a block list on twitter. But a quick check gives a clue what is at the heart of this.

Also Mumsnet is being compared to anti vaxxers!

Bore

Here's Helen defending the tweeting of Posie Parkers kids images.

How does this work ? It's so terrible when it happens to her (with images she's presumably put in the public domain) but it serves Posie right?

Why aren't the police involved protecting posies or carro ?

There have been several other people arrested for “hate crimes” and not charged. Maybe the CPS are fed up of the —West Yorkshire— Police and have decided to prosecute this time, inorder to fully publicise the fucktwattery of what is going on.

for Miranda.

It would make more sense to compare the anti-science belief system of some transactivists to anti-vaxxers rather than gender critical women's activists.

Mumsnet is being compared to anti vaxxers!

Oh the irony, coming from someone who is employed by the jelly-baby science society.

No wonder the press are poised for a field day. Invoking Ipso was probably a bad move with this case ongoing.

Is it possible to get court transcripts? I'd like to see the cross-examination.

Indeed Doctoress

It's funny these imported issues like 'anti-vaxers', 'bathrooms', 'locker rooms', 'moms' and 'indigenous people' from America/Canada being artificially grafted onto the UK. You can tell TRAs are performing for the World stage when the crap they spout doesn't make local sense.

I love that every time I have come on to mumsnet today (maybe 5 times while waiting for the kettle to boil) this has been trending.

Lots of us are very interested in this story and willing Miranda to win.

Gosh that tweet of Helen defending Posie's children being doxxed. Seeing a picture of a child in the background on a live Facebook stream is not akin to that child being in the public domain.

Ugh.

Once this is over, we'll need to talk about where to direct claims that the case was ever brought.

Will there be a verdict today?