This is terrorism

[RedToothBrush]

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16271651/amp/Police-investigate-threat-murder-doesnt-support-trans-rights-sent-nurses-centre-hospital-changing-room-case.html

Police are investigating a chilling death threat sent to a group of nurses who campaigned to stop a transgender colleague using their changing room.

Officers have made an arrest after a man told the women – who won a high-profile tribunal case earlier this year – he was going to come to their hospital and ‘murder whoever doesn't support trans rights’.

A photograph of a large kitchen knife was attached to the email, which insisted it ‘isn’t a joke’ and warned ‘I know the address’ of where they work.

The same person is also thought to have sent Facebook messages to the gender-critical trade union group the women set up, telling them ‘the world would be a better place without your bigotry’ and ‘maybe you should kill yourself’.

When the death threat was discovered last week three of the NHS staff had to be escorted to their cars by security guards at Darlington Memorial Hospital, and seven of them stayed away from their workplace while waiting for police to act.

How does someone receiving a death threat (or enough death threats to wall paper their house) know which ones are credible and which ones are not?

Appalling. And absolutely he can be both vulnerable and dangerous. I hope the Police take this very seriously and if someone has manipulated him into this I hope they get them too.

Stay safe Darlington nurses 🫂

Exactly.

I hope all the women are okay. Absolutely fucking appalling behaviour. And sadly, totally unsurprising.

I was just wondering whether we'd hear any of the gender supportive posters decrying this.

Horribly, I have read too many 'trans activists' who think that threats, violence and abuse are justified when it comes to women who won't comply.

Indeed. I'm sure Lacksie will be on soon to tell us it's entirely justified. Shortly followed by Alcove.

They've all gone very, very quiet. Inexplicable.

It's a conundrum wrapped in a mystery wrapped in an enigma, isn't it.

I wonder what the limits are.
I mean, presumably it wouldn’t be considered deprivation of liberty to stop someone having matches if they liked setting fire to things and didn’t understand the consequences?

Be fair, there will first be 30 pages of 'that didn't happen' before we get to 'and if it did they deserved it'.

Tumble weed and a deafening silence on the Hunter S thread when I asked how defining your gender by a want to be used by men made someone a woman. Amazing how the word salads all just stop sometimes isn't it.

I wonder if "he" is really a she. I know that this is a male pattern crime but cross sex can really mess with your head aswell as your body (Dr P goes into this on X if anyone is interested).
That said idgf if the perpetrator is distraught or how angry or frustrated he is/was he made death threats and obviously intended to cause fear and alarm even if he didn't intend to follow through with his threats, at the very least hes actually guilty of malicious communication and belongs in jail before he kills someone (some woman if im honest).
Its funny that the police are always quick to threaten and arrest women for malicious communication (usually for calling men men) yet when a TRA actually commits that crime they drag their feet until the press start asking questions

Well done on the police for arresting him. Hopefully if there's sufficient evidence he'll be charged and given the appropriate sentence and ultimately mental health support.

Excuse you?

Fair enough, I was expecting you, as per, to find a way why threatening women who want single sex spaces is deserved, but you didn't, so I apologise.

As per what? I challenge you to find one example where I've said a threat to a woman who wants single sex spaces is deserved. I won't hold my breath!

I don’t think so. The Darlington nurses posted the actual threat on Facebook and he says his pronouns are they them.

I meant 'as per' re women being in the wrong for wanting spaces away from men, even the ones who pretend they aren't. Poorly expressed, and as I said, I apologise for that.

As per usual, presumably.

You invariably stick up for men, not women. Don't pretend otherwise.

Nonsense. As per.

Alcove actually does stick up for women against men. Quite often.

Just not when the men involved think they're women.

But apart from that, they do, and it's reasonable to acknowledge that.

So the police actually used sexed pronouns instead of the suspects chosen pronouns 😱

I'm not sure i can remember a case where they have used they/them, it's always been right or completely wrong.

@lcakethereforeIam
"There's a boy recently who stabbed a girl multiple times because she rejected him, and he also injured the shopkeeper who tried to stop him. He got a slap on the wrist because the judge said he was smart. The traveller boys who raped some young girls got their wrists slapped because of their learning difficulties. What is the IQ that would see men and boys appropriately punished?"
Great question. Every woman needs to send this question to their MP.
I just don't understand why this behaviour against women is ignored. I mean, I do understand that harms to women are just not really considered serious, just inevitable or something. It's depressing.

One of Ben Elton books captured this type of thing quite nicely- I think it is called Identity Crisis.

There is a loner guy who "casually sends off a few rape threats" and then goes and has a cup of tea. There is even a woman who is campaigning for single sex access to the pond.

It's worth a read.

'Hopefully'.

Women are having to rely on hope.

Bethany Hutchison, President of the Darlington Nursing Union, said: ‘We are relieved but deeply shocked that the police took so long to take action on this, and only did after the media contacted them.