Posted on 09/03/2019 6:46:01 PM PDT by simpson96
A mum who was arrested on suspicion of deliberately misgendering a trans woman is set to appear in court.
Kate Scottow was visited by officers from Hertfordshire Police after an online argument allegedly saw her refer to transgender rights activist Stephanie Hayden as a man despite knowing she identified as a woman.
Scottow, 38, was taken to a police station and interviewed following the incident in February and has now been charged with making malicious communications on social media, The Sun reports.
Scottow, of Hitchin, Herts, will now face magistrates in Stevenage on September 18.
Following her arrest she took to forum Mumsnet to describe being confronted in front of her two young children.
A CPS spokesman said: We made the decision to charge Katherine Scottow after reviewing a file of evidence from Hertfordshire Police relating to social media posts.
The Crown Prosecution Service reminds all concerned that criminal proceedings against Ms Scottow are now active and that she has a right to a fair trial.
"It is extremely important that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice these proceedings.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
More info on this ersatz “woman”. Be warned, there are pictures.
Good thing for the Brits that Hitler went on his rampage 80 years ago. Had he done it today there’s no chance they’d survive.
The people who invented the finest language on earth now consign it to the scrap heap of history. Churchill's great grandson could write a new book, the Decline and Fall of the English Speaking Peoples.
Arrested for calling a tail a tail.
If people will not finally revolt, its over for intelligent civilization.
Not a suggestion.
A command.
Putting something like that online is just plain stoopid. Also, her reps should be horsewhipped.
There is no freedom in the UK trust me. Which is why I love America, and so many others do.
Where did this happen? North Korea?
“Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn’t exist in any declaration I have ever read.
If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn’t occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don’t like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don’t like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.” - Salman Rushdie
Sometimes it seems as though we slipped through the looking glass or went through a wormhole, everything is bass ackwards.
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So now, in England, you can be arrested for telling the truth about someone - that the person is a man no matter how they “identify” - in a conversation? Are atheists now required to affirm the religious beliefs of Christians which they think aren’t true? Of course not.
Yes, and what do misguided Americans who worship the inbred monarchy, even defend them here on FR, think of this perverse travesty? It really might be too late to save the UK.
Oh shit your all ready here!
So when will the British revolt and demand a constitution that assures them the right to differ?
My ancestry hail’s from Mountain Ash Wales.
Left the coal mines for America.
Reading the story, I get a very different picture of what this is all about. According to the headline, it’s about a woman being arrested for refusing to call a transgender person by their preferred gender, but according to the linked article, the transgender person says she was falsely accused of serious criminal activity, which would be slander, not that “she” was “misgendered.” So I’m confused.
Homosexual activists are basically your social equivalent of an active mass shooter.
These people need to be put down with prejudice.
Good luck, Boris.
Unbelievable that you can get arrested for calling someone what they are. Even if she meant it to be mean getting arrested for calling someone a man is so over the top. Talk about a protected class.
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