Stonewall states that “misgendering” isn’t a crime

[PriOn1]

In an astonishing twist, Stonewall has stated that correctly sexing men is not a crime.

They are, of course, only admitting this now it’s been made very clear by Police Scotland’s reaction to JK Rowling.

They said nothing over the years as women were chucked off social media, for correctly sexing men. Not sure if anyone was actually arrested for only doing it, but they have allowed the fear to fester on and on, leading to chilling of free speech.

What a bunch of weasels they are.

https://x.com/Jebadoo2/status/1775643089010385141?s=20

The latest update I can find is from 9th June last year, saying "I have been notified today by the Employment Appeal Tribunal that my appeal has passed the sift stage and will proceed to a full hearing."

I can't find anything about a full hearing, but since the Tribunal system seems to move slower than the mills of God, this may not be surprising

Malcolm Clarke AT TwisterFilm
You know the best thing about the Hate Crime Act? Thousands of ordinary Scots who were half-afraid to call hulking blokes in dresses ...MEN....now know it's absolutely fine to do so. Like everything else the SNP does it has had the opposite effect from that intended.

This reminds me of the desperate reverse ferret Mermaids had to pull when the Government ordered it to stop saying, in Mermaids' educational pack for schools, that it's possible for 'children to be born in the wrong body'.

Mermaids went into a scramble and even tried to claim that they had never said that children can be born into the wrong body despite ample extant evidence to the contrary.

This reverse ferret from Stonewall is similar.

The last five years have been like watching a high school bully in action but played out over vast organisations. The bully will take more and more from his victim if he is not checked. But often the bully is also subconsciously aware that he stands on shaky ground, with nothing to back him up other than fear and intimidation.

If a brave person pokes the slightest hole in the bully's carapace of emtpy threats and intimidating behaviour, the bully crumples like a deflated bouncy castle. All the hot air is let out. That is what is happening with the TRA industrial complex right now.

I love to see it.

Stonewall hasn't said it's not wrong, it said it wasn't a crime

I repeat my earlier comment "It is possible to coerce people into a demanded/desired behaviour without laws. Policies, rules, "values" in employment and social organisations, all imposed with the threat of sanctions for any perceived transgression." To which I will add, rules imposed on social media and in publications.

The deletions are the result of MN rules on terminology and the actions of monitors who complain to MNHQ about "breaches" of those rules.

I like the fact they have drawn parallels to religion.

It emphasises that it's a belief system not fact.

The bar for MN posts is higher than just what is legal, though. It's legal to call someone a fucking wanker but if you do that to another poster you'll get deleted. Though I think if you call a public figure a fucking wanker you'll generally be OK.

I certainly agree that posts should not be deleted for saying what sex a public figure is, but I suppose the legality of such a statement is not the salient point..

The idea that it is respectful to use pronouns, won't last imho.

Not when it comes accompanied by threats and abuse if you don't. Thats not how real life works.

It just got harder for cash strapped organisations and businesses to justify pronoun badges and training...

Time for a spot of reeducation.

Or should that be rereeducation?

While generally it's "their site their rules", I think the law applies as much as IRL. So you can ban/delete anyone for any reason other than belonging to a group protected in law.

That's "I think" as in "I am not a lawyer etc etc" I would be fascinated (and defer to) a real lawyers view.

'...everyone deserves to feel safe while going about their daily lives...' huh? Like women (XX women, for the avoidance of doubt) in changing rooms, loos, prisons ?

Just a sec! So their name isn't 'Idul Wadhwa'. All this time, I thought the Mr bit was a title

Thank heavens I never met the person, that could have been embarrassing.

I read this statement with interest. I expect the line will be that of course it isn’t a crime, it is just immoral.

What's "immoral" about it, it's a sane person's opinion of the facts as they see them.

Is that a support-seal identifying as a dog?

As long as it's a sincerely held belief that pinnipeds can be quadrupeds, I suppose that's acceptable.

Indeed - a Reverse of Weasels is surely the right term?

They are nearly ferrets. (Apologies to all other mustelids - except stoats, they are little bar stewards, too)

Henceforth I will always use a Sneak of Weasels as the collective noun

Probably shot themselves in the foot with that, as other organisations will have seen that they couldn't rely on their batshittery advice or support.

Just as a matter of interest - now that we are allowed to correctly sex men, does that mean we have every right to keep them out of single-sex spaces?

Asking for women and girls everywhere.

Edited because I had put "correctly sex me" and not "correctly sex men".

Sorry about that. Not easy to correctly sex me with my post-menopausal moustache, but I don't consider it literal violence to get it wrong, so don't anybody worry about it.

Oh, just saw this one.
The weasel-reputation has been tattered by The Wind in the Willows.

(I still like a Sneak of Weasels, though. They sort of do Sneak around).

This law, and the big orgs responses, are getting much International attention and SCORN.
It is marvellous to behold.

Have you any links @turbonerd ?

I was slightly addicted to Ozzy the Desktop weasel on YouTube. The cutest thing ever. Small and fearless.

So... focusing on misgendering, which is "literal violence" only serves to trivialise real violence?

Come again?

Oh look, a ferret reversing!

I was actually privileged to see a weasel mother moving her litter from one (obviously somehow compromised) under-tree trunk burrow to somewhere she considered safer.

She was tiny, and carried five minute kits, one at a time across the field where I was standing, through another field of cattle to her preferred place. There may have been more - I don't know if she'd been busy before I spotted her. I would guess, size-wise, it would have been like me carrying five cocker spaniels, one after another, a distance of a couple of miles, and coming back each time for the next. All at full speed.

It was pure good fortune that I spotted her and the dog didn't, (though the dog was an elderly west and probably wouldn't have bothered) - I leashed her and just watched the drama unfold until Mammy Weasel didn't come back for any more.

it was thrilling - I wished I'd had a camera. I' d love to know what she had felt threatened. I can only think it was something that humans were doing - I can't imagine weasels have many enemies, though they were very tiny babies, so maybe badgers or foxes might have taken them?

Edit for autocarrot

I have it in my diary for sometime in May.

Sorry crap at links. I know I must do better, just not good at technological stuff. And most of this info is on SM or in much smaller news outlets.
It is not in the big, national newspapers here, and I don’t expect it will be - they didn’t write a jot about Sturgeon’s Downfall either.
But - people are talking irl and on social media.
It is good, because it exposes the madness.

*here is in Scandinavia