The Institute of Economic Affairs warns that Labour’s plans to introduce tougher hate crime laws targeting sexual orientation, gender identity and disability could limit free speech, especially in debates around transgender issues. The Mail has the story.
Labour plans for tougher hate crime laws if they enter power could lead to criminal charges for misgendering trans people, a think tank warns today.
The Institute of Economic Affairs suggested that proposals revealed in 2021 and reinforced more recently by Sir Keir Starmer create “serious implications” for freedom of speech around trans rights.
Speaking at the Pink News awards last year the former Director of Public Prosecutions said it was “time for tougher hate crime laws so every LGBT+ crime is treated as an aggravated offence”.
He was outlining plans first set out in 2021 to bring in “tougher sentences for those who commit hate crimes targeted at someone’s sexual identity, transgender identity or disability”.
Currently only hate crimes with a racist or religious motive are classed as aggravated offences, which attract longer sentences.
Report author Marc Glendinning, Head of Cultural Affairs at the think-tank, said: “Many supporters of transgender ideology do not aim to win the debate but rather prevent debate from occurring.
“Maintaining free speech in this area, as in others, is essential if we are to defend a liberal society based on rationality rather than coercion.”
Labour hit back, with a source saying the report was “nonsense from the organisation that created the blueprint for Liz Truss’s disastrous kamikaze budget which crashed the economy and saddled working people with a mortgage bombshell”.
Announcing the party’s hate crime policies in 2021, party chairwoman Anneliese Dodds specifically singled out trans rights as an area where there needed to be “vital changes to hate crime laws”.
Worth reading in full.
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Oh just feck off… You’re all off your fecking heads…
Not to worry Jon. Got you covered;
https://twitter.com/hunkiedorie/status/1694313824122187831/photo/1
Mate
Love it. Thanks Mogs.
Get a Tourette’s Syndrome diagnosis.
Claim that your medical condition prevents you from filtering your words and that you are pathologically incapable of not saying what you see.
Seriously, I do know of elderly folk with various forms of dementia and cognitive decline who just cannot take it in when someone in their family or who they know goes trans. Who is this Betty who has suddenly appeared? where is Brian, I want to speak to Brian but they can’t because Brian has become Betty! It is totally beyond many people with any sort of cognitive problem to make any sense of this.
Consequently this represents a clash of hate crimes, I would argue that it is a hate crime against people with cognitive problems for anyone in their acquaintance to go trans. If your mind is already confused, this is a step too far.
What happens when they *really* just don’t cut the mustard though??
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1694421095531577774
A great way to react to something like this would be for all the women to withdraw voluntarily from the competition at the last minute. They guy could then cycle alone. Would make a great story and probably a quite effective one as well.
Truth hates no one, it’s just true. That the transgenderists try to criminalize making demonstrably truthful statements about them is a tacit admission that they don’t really believe in their shit, either.
When we have Sophie Cook advising the CPS, expect more of this pure insanity..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10878481/Fury-CPS-hires-transgender-activist-despite-posting-derogatory-tweets-women.html
What does he look like. Ffs
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Come and arrest me, put me up against a wall and shoot me..
Please…
On her website, she says she is also a ‘LGBT & mental health campaigner’, a Royal Air Force veteran and ‘self-harm and suicide survivor’…..
What a shame…
Judging from some of the photos supplied above I would have thought there was going to be no issue in “Misgendering” these fellas !
I am going to identify as an ignorant old bu99er, do you think I will get away with it?
no real woman has ever identified as a woman.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/08/23/german-courts-are-going-full-dystopia/
A judge sentenced to prison for doing his job properly.