Sussex Police claim gc views are 'hate' when women call a paedophile a man

[ArabellaScott]

Extraordinary exchange on Twitter.

'This is a man, committing sexual offences against children'

'Hi, Sussex Police do not tolerate any hateful comments towards their gender identity regardless of crimes committed. This is irrelevant to the crime that has been committed and investigated. Sussex Police'

'Sussex Police, I am exercising my gender critical views, which are protected in law. Can you advise whether making such statements is a crime?'

'Hi, you can familiarise yourself with what is regarding as hate on our website here: orlo.uk/k3sOL. If you have gender critical views you wish to express this can be done on other platforms or your own page, not targeted at an individual. Sussex Police'

twitter.com/sussex_police/status/1574708767287115780

I would’ve expected more of Braverman after the speech she gave a few weeks ago. Actions not words.

I wonder if she's getting shitty advice from her civil servants and she needs to find the right advisors before she can make a power move.

The police are threatening women with hate crime arrests for saying a man is a man.

It’s not enough. It’s a non reply.

The Conservative Home Secretary/government is the answer to your question.

Looks like the grown ups are back in charge.

Wow - someone in the Sussex Police comms department is getting a massive bollocking right now!

Thank christ they have put up that statement.

Although still doesn't answer the question as to why this man was put into a female prison?

Now to get him into a male prison and away from vulnerable women!

This.

and away from vulnerable children in a female prison that also contains a mother and baby unit.

It's really not rocket science.

Well it’s a bit better, but still weasel words:

which heard that, at the time of the offences, Dixon was living as a man, John Stephen Dixon

’living as a man’? Dixon was, and still is, a man.

Jesus wept. Can someone please clarify for me, that if I decided to identify as a man and was being sent to prison, I could push to be sent to a male prison? Surely not?

I can't decide what's more dangerous - a man getting himself into a woman's prison or a woman getting herself into a man's prison

It's horrific this is allowed to happen

This a shit apology - although does acknowledge the crimes are recorded correctly with him as a man.
How has he been allowed into the prison estate without a GRC? Even with one would be bad enough, but without one is ludicrous

I saw a letter somewhere (though this was from 2018, I believe) from the government in response to a FOI request it was revealed that there were 0 trans identified female prisoners in UK male prisons. Whether it was their choice and wants to do their sentence in a female prison or the court refusing any requests made, I don't know.

What?! Do I have this right? A male sex offender, convicted of sexual crimes against children has been placed in a women’s prison which has a mother and baby unit?

Yes, you have it right and I'm pretty sure it's not the first time it's happened either.

I don't understand why this isn't national news? Why does this not appear news worthy? Nothing, not on LBC, nowhere

A man with a penis, in prison for sexual offences, is being allowed in a prison with women and children? HOW IS THIS NOT NEWS?

WHY AS A COUNTRY ARENT WE ALL TALKING ABOUT THIS!!

I feel physically sick. In this country? How can we treat women and children like this? Would there be any point in writing to my MP I wonder when my constituency is not connected to the case or the prison…

Yes exactly.

Because they say they are a woman.

Thanks. I think I'll give it a try.

Is anyone in contact with Baroness Nicholson? She'll know who to approach about it.

I could say I’m an aardvark, but it doesn’t make it so.

Could you then be locked up in a zoo if convicted of a crime?

Police have apologised in last hour

twitter.com/sussex_police/status/1574829310258679835?s=46&t=SBbq7BttEcWvlCi2p-7QdQ

I suppose as far as safety of the female prisoners we need to ask whether this person is actually mixed in with the population at all, or housed totally separately? Does anyone know?

If the latter it might be why people are not making so much of a fuss about it.

Apologies for below. Just seen previous posts re this apology

The whole episode was is disgraceful, however I don't give much for his chances if he ends up in a women's prison.

This.