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Man investigated by police for retweeting transgender limerick
The Telegraph ^ | January 24, 2019 | Camilla Tominey and Joani Walsh

Posted on 04/11/2019 6:16:26 AM PDT by reaganaut1

A docker from Humberside has been investigated by police over a limerick he posted on Twitter after an officer claimed it constitutes a ‘hate incident’ against transgender people.

Harry Miller, 53, from Lincoln was contacted on Wednesday by a community cohesion officer following a complaint that had been made about the plant and machinery dealer’s social media posts.

Citing 30 potentially offensive tweets, the PC singled out a limerick Mr Miller had retweeted which questioned whether transgender women are biological women. It included the lines: "Your breasts are made of silicone, your vagina goes nowhere."

Even though no crime was committed, sharing the limerick online was recorded as a ‘hate incident’.

PC Mansoor Gul told Mr Miller: “I’ve been on a course and what you need to understand is that you can have a foetus with a female brain that grows male body parts and that’s what a transgender person is.”

After Mr Miller questioned why the complainant was being described as a “victim” if no crime had been committed, the officer told him: “We need to check your thinking”.

“I can’t believe what is happening in the UK in the name of transgenderism and, worse still, we’re not even allowed to think never mind talk about it,” Mr Miller said.

The married father of four was alerted to the investigation by his company directors after they were approached by officers trying to make contact with Mr Miller.

The complainant had managed to identify Mr Miller’s place of work, despite there being no reference to his business or his full identity on his Twitter account. As part of the complaint to police it was alleged the firm was an ‘unsafe environment’ for transgender employees because of Mr Miller’s comments on social media.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: genitalmutilation; transgender
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To: Dilbert San Diego
If this is simply stating the truth, then why is there so much uproar over this?

Precisely because it is the simple truth. It is akin to the boy who points out that "The Emperor has no clothes!"

It points out the truth in a clear, easy to grasp manner, that makes people acutely aware that "transgenders" are mentally ill.

41 posted on 04/11/2019 7:34:27 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: reaganaut1

“We need to check your thinking”.

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Is that a quote from “1984”? If not, why not?


42 posted on 04/11/2019 7:35:42 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
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To: jaydubya2
Are they allowed to listen to The Kinks “Lola”?

It might get banned in England. They have lost their f***ing minds over there.

43 posted on 04/11/2019 7:36:10 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: TonytheTiger7777
INSOC blames Goldstein, but the citizens go to gaol.


44 posted on 04/11/2019 7:43:41 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: reaganaut1

YIKES!

I wrote this Limerick back when I was in the 8th grade. (1965)

There once was a fellow from Munich
Who decided to become a eunuch.
He wielded his knife,
And changed his whole life.
And now, he looks good in a tunic.

(((I was a very NAUGHTY eighth grader)))


45 posted on 04/11/2019 8:00:09 AM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
If this is simply stating the truth, then why is there so much uproar over this?

The truth is intolerable to those whose lives are dedicated to falsehood and delusion.

46 posted on 04/11/2019 8:09:15 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

“Community Cohesion Officer” is English for the Russian word ‘chekist’.


47 posted on 04/11/2019 8:13:07 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: BenLurkin

“you can have a foetus with a female brain that grows male body parts and that’s what a transgender person is.”

No.
That’s what Gender dysphoria is.


48 posted on 04/11/2019 8:38:07 AM PDT by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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To: NorthMountain

Ted Nugent should set that to music.


49 posted on 04/11/2019 8:43:50 AM PDT by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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To: null and void

*Hard stare*


50 posted on 04/11/2019 8:49:42 AM PDT by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The best way to piss off a liberal is to tell them the truth.


51 posted on 04/11/2019 8:51:07 AM PDT by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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To: DiogenesLamp

I just saw it there.


52 posted on 04/11/2019 8:52:07 AM PDT by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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To: jaydubya2

Walk on the wild side.


53 posted on 04/11/2019 8:52:56 AM PDT by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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To: Salamander
I just saw it there.

I went back and checked again. For a moment it showed up, and then it immediately went to "Page not found."

54 posted on 04/11/2019 9:06:27 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Salamander

*smooch*


55 posted on 04/11/2019 9:14:30 AM PDT by null and void (If socialism is so grand, why are Guatemalans coming here instead of going to Venezuela?)
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To: left that other site
There once was a fellow from Munich
Who decided to become a eunuch.
He wielded his knife,
And changed his whole life.
And now, he looks good in a tunic.

LOL! Yes, THAT's a limerick.

Come on, FR - who else is feeling creative?

56 posted on 04/11/2019 9:18:28 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NorthMountain

Talk about two birds with one stone.

The offendingg poem also calls out the trendy-genders for practicing REAL Male privilege / toxic masculinity!

LOL.


57 posted on 04/11/2019 9:58:00 AM PDT by mumblypeg (I've seen the future, brother. It is murder. --L. Cohen)
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To: Salamander

Holly and Candy.


58 posted on 04/11/2019 10:00:34 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: madison10
Wow, the Brits have NO sense of humor...

... or of scientific facts presented in lyrical form!

59 posted on 04/11/2019 10:02:31 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: DiogenesLamp

Apart from DNA, is there a discernible physical difference between male and female brains?


60 posted on 04/11/2019 10:04:19 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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