Is taking transwomen to court itself a hate crime these days?
It's an example of trying to harm a trans person on totally spurious grounds (spurious enough for it to be immediately thrown out when the judge saw it, at least). Which is more harm than any of us here have ever done to a trans person.
Here's one newspaper report:
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At one point during the hearing, Judge Woollard said: ‘Where is the evidence [of harassment] taking into account the need for free speech? You have to show a course of conduct and at the moment we have one tweet. Where is the evidence for Miranda Yardley outing Ms Islan’s son?’ Later he threw out the case and awarded costs to the defendant.
Yardley told The Mail on Sunday afterwards that he was ‘horrified’ by the decision to charge him, saying: ‘I faced losing everything I worked for.’
Miranda's own piece about it: uncommongroundmedia.com/miranda-yardley-transsexual-prosecuted-transgender-hate-crime/
In spite of playing victim, defence evidence showed that Islan undertakes exactly the sort of behaviour for which she was trying to have me prosecuted.
Under her own Twitter account, Islan regularly instigates vicious personal attacks against people she disagrees with. In particular, Islan instigated Twitter pile-ons, posting vicious personal attacks on women like Stephanie Davies-Arai, Michele Moore and Heather Brunskell-Evans, women who like me do not believe that children can be born into the wrong body.