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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Police interviewing Caroline Farrow under caution and threatening to arrest her for "misgendering"

999 replies

Pimmsnlemonade · 19/03/2019 00:11

twitter.com/CF_Farrow/status/1107787009614065664

And, as she says in the thread:

"Meanwhile a group of people have terrified and harassed my family. Doxed my children, made violent and sexual threats, signed me up to porn accounts, did the same to my husband, threatened to visit here. And tumbleweed..."

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GurlwiththeCurl · 19/03/2019 11:08

A lurker here coming forward to express my support. Best wishes to you.

ThePurportedDoctoress · 19/03/2019 11:11

Just adding my voice, I will also contribute if you need to raise funds caro. I'm so sorry you have to go through this. As others have said, there is plenty of actual hate speech all over social media at the moment, and you're being harassed for 'misgendering' which isn't even a crime, FFS!

I have zero faith in the police now.

EweSurname · 19/03/2019 11:11

Helen Islan wasn't able to be offended on her child's behalf so why would Susie Green be able to be on behalf of her adult child?

ThePurportedDoctoress · 19/03/2019 11:13

It's an orchestrated campaign to shut people up. The timing is very unfortunate, since Miranda's case has just been thrown out of court. I hope there's a journalist working on a story about the state of the police and CPS in this country.

StephsCaddy · 19/03/2019 11:16

More than happy to crowdfund for this.

MNSDKHheroines · 19/03/2019 11:18

The timing is very unfortunate No! It's a consequence of the outcome of Miranda's case.
twitter.com/flyinglawyer73/status/1107916956307517440

Datun · 19/03/2019 11:22

Now the fuck does Hayden know what the inner workings of the CPS are?

Honestly this whole thing is idiotic.

Whether they have a case, or not, the whole thing is going to blow up. It's going to alert the country.

ThreeRandomWords · 19/03/2019 11:22

This is absolutely outrageous.

"Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows".

Are we no longer free to say that a person with a penis is male, and in the English language, the convention is to use the pronoun "he" for male people? How on earth did we get here?

Mner2019 · 19/03/2019 11:23

MNSDKHheroines Fucking hell. Getting their knickers in a twist (haha) and being a threatening arsehole doesn't make misgendering a crime.

nauticant · 19/03/2019 11:24

I also think this is being driven by the CPS. They need to be careful though, they are subject to the Freedom of Information Act:

www.cps.gov.uk/freedom-information

although I'd imagine there are many exclusions they could try to hide behind and it would take very carefully constructed questions and persistence to get anything out of them.

Datun · 19/03/2019 11:26

Strewth. If it's the CPS who are the ones found to be partisan, that is huge.

Redshoeblueshoe · 19/03/2019 11:26

I'm also happy to donate to a crowd funder

nauticant · 19/03/2019 11:26

Speak of the Devil:

www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/misgendering

Although I'm not sure that person is very effective in getting what they seek from their FoIA requests.

littlbrowndog · 19/03/2019 11:28

Agree datun

heresyisthenewblack · 19/03/2019 11:29

Carowiththegoodhair
Flowers So sorry this is happening to you. Absolutely outrageous.
Please let us know how we can support you.

Mner2019 · 19/03/2019 11:29

Nauticant - that is awesome. Is he likely to be part of Caroline's legal team or another interested party? Quick work whoever it is.

Sitdownstandup · 19/03/2019 11:35

I too can bung in a few quid. Caroline do you need money? Please let us know.

Daughterofmabel · 19/03/2019 11:35

Is misgendering actually a crime? This is pure bollocks, I do wish the police would attend to more serious matters
in Scotland we were told by a law professor that it's not. It would actually have to be linked with something that is an actual crime.

nauticant · 19/03/2019 11:40

It's a serial requester Mner2019 and I'm not sure how effective they are.

I doubt they're anything to do with Carowiththegoodhair.

eurochick · 19/03/2019 11:41

As a Surrey resident who has just received a big council tax hike I strenuously object to this heinous waste of resources.

Mner2019 · 19/03/2019 11:43

Nauticant Some interesting points raised there though nonetheless and very quick off the mark.

nicenewdusters · 19/03/2019 11:44

Can you get yourself back on GMB with Piers, Caroline ? He's absolutely sick to the back teeth of this utter shite and seems to have no fear in calling out what we all know to be nonsense.

There is no crime of misgendering. This is exactly why Jordan Peterson, the Canadian clinical psychologist, protested about the C16 bill in Canada recently, which sought to mandate, by law, the personal pronoun of choice by another. He said personally that he would respect an individual request to address them by whatever pronoun they had chosen, but this depended on circumstance and motivation, among other things.

His issue is one of free speech, not trans rights, and anyone who's ever listened to him properly knows this. I believe the bill has now passed into law.

I would love for you to have the funding and support to really blow this one out the water. This is how it starts; a phone call from the police, using words like summons, arrest, interview and with threats if you don't immediately concede. You can bet your life some of the police officers involved are wondering why on earth they are being asked to investigate. But of course Inspector Woke is breathing down their neck.

nauticant · 19/03/2019 11:47

Would that be the 11% increase in the council tax required to pay for Surrey Police eurochick?

CadburysTastesVileNow · 19/03/2019 11:48

Yup. Huge council tax rises in Surrey based on the need to enhance police budgets. Most people taking the increase on the chin but I doubt they thought it would be pissed away like this

OldCrone · 19/03/2019 11:49

Just adding my support, Caro. Make sure you get good legal advice. This sounds very similar to what happened to Posie.