Sheffield Party Of Women candidate threatened with arrest for leaflets

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Not much info about this yet, but just saw it on Twitter.

BREAKING. Party of Women
@SheffieldPOW
candidate in Leeds has been threatened with arrest for the leaflets she distributed on a charge of malicious communications.

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Tone crime is serious! David Tennant hates Kemi's tone so much that he thinks she should be unexisted.

You'll never get an honest answer on the KJK homophobia accusations, I mean there's a million quid for anyone who can prove JKR is transphobic which remains unclaimed.

Well they are proving the fifth bullet point on that leaflet is true if nothing else. While looking up definitions someone should do irony.

I wish people wouldn't make those statements on here. You know it will be put through the trans language mangle and that by teatime it will be "truth" that she threatened them with castration!

It was Susie green who complained to the police that KJK used the word castration to describe the fare more cutesy and euphemistic 'bottom surgery' of Jackie Green.

KJK was threatened with arrest for describing it thus.

Which is exactly what she's talking about in point 5 of her leaflet!

It's 'untoward about paedophiles' all over again.

I've never heard of the term. What does it mean and who does it insult?

There'a actually something called 'Hatepedia'?

Ring the bells and wake the children,the end times are upon us.

There's potentially a third, which is the candidate was using the leaflets as part of harassment. Noone is above the law, so if she was doing that she will get arrested

How do you harness someone with a leaflet ?

Waft it under their nose in an aggressive manner ?

Very old Latin prefix

Tell me you’re uneducated without telling me etc.

If the leaflet has been judged acceptable by the electoral commission how could it be used as part of harassment?
Did posy parker just invent Schrödinger's election pamphlet?

It is a very old Pictish word meaning ‘nose’ or ‘cape’.

Perhaps we can agree not to say castration or bottom surgery but spell it out in detail

The removal of all male sexual organs

We can't have a situation where people are able to complain to the police because they don't like words on an election leaflet. The police would get nothing else done.

However if the individual concerned (general) is making -phobic remarks then that needs to be dealt with. The use of the word troon, given the context of the situation, was very unwise.

Just to be clear, the courts agreed calling a transwoman a ‘pig in a wig’ though offensive was not an offence.

Very old Latin prefix

Isn't everything Latin old?
I've been a biologist for a bit over 30 years now and no, we didn't use cisgender back then or even now, even gender only sneaked in recently and mostly via Americans/Canadians.

Troon:

Portmanteau of the words "Transgender" and "Goon", signifying/accusatory term to denote, mostly male individuals, that appropriate the Transgender identity in order to shield themselves from criticism or past bad/criminal behaviour.

Yeah quite. Her twitter might get her in a bit of trouble too. Very unwise.

I always thought it was loon
So slightly ablist as well as anti trans.
I don't find it particularly offensive in itself but anyone who uses it has been hanging out in anti-trans places (like KF) so I'll assume they are anti trans instead of pro woman.

And I bet that never happens.

I’ve never heard the term Troon before and have no idea what it means. I do agree though that people should not be using slurs, especially not candidates. It’s hardly professional. Prior to this it sounds like she was in the right, nothing wrong with the leaflet so it’s a malicious complaint which the police shouldn’t have acted on. So shame that she’s descended into nastiness so quickly. That sort of attitude will turn people off.

Loon: Doric word meaning ‘boy’