Cohere or else
The Telegraph has further details on the “Inspector Plod understands you have tweeted a tweet” incident.
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.
Ahhh a community cohesion officer, of course. Community cohesion is apparently mandatory and enforced by the police in the UK…but then what is it, exactly? We know it’s not about men threatening women because the police couldn’t care less about that – but it is about doggerel (it’s not a limerick) that makes fun of “gender identity”? We have to cohere when it comes to gender identity but we’re free to split apart when it comes to bullying women?
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.”
I repeat: it’s not a limerick. Limericks are like sonnets in having a specific set of criteria for meter and length. Anyway, like many people, I have doubts about police officers monitoring what the citizens retweet.
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.”
He’s been on a course, you see. Maybe next year he’ll be on a course that teaches him you can have a foetus with a human brain that grows giraffe body parts and that’s what a transspecies person is.
The investigation comes as crime in Humberside has gone up by 13 per cent in the year ending September 2018, above the 8 per cent national average. Violent offences are up 24 per cent, sexual offences are up 19 per cent and robberies are up 17 per cent. The number of officers on the beat has increased by nearly 200 in the past 12 months.
Well thank god they can still spare a few officers to monitor what we retweet.
Confirming that he had spoken to Mr Miller for 20 minutes, PC Gul told the Telegraph he made the remark about the foetus because he had “learned it on a training course ran by a transgender person last summer”.
Was the course titled Metaphysical Biology?
A spokesperson for Humberside Police said: “We take all reports of hate incidents seriously and will always investigate and take proportionate action.”
They don’t though. Ask Kate Smurthwaite for instance.
But Kate Smurthwaite is a “cis-woman”. It is impossible to hate “cis” women enough…more hate must be piled on them than on any other group of people. In fact, I bet pretty soon the police will be calling people up and informing them that they have not hated Kate Smurthwaite (or some other “cis” woman) enough this week, and they need to get on the ball or they will be in danger of not being cohesive enough.
As long as they don’t let PC Gul(lible) attend any lectures by creationists or antivaxxers or climate change denialists…
As far-fetched as that example is, I’m waiting for someone born with webbed digits to identify as a transduck.
AoS, do you have to have webbed digits to identify as transduck? Can’t someone with ordinary toes have “duck toes”? After all, if there is a “girl penis”, why not “duck toes”?
And I don’t have webbed feet, but still identify as otter, so are you denying my lived reality just because of a biological problem? My otter brain grew a human body – do you see a problem with that?
I thought you were a dolphin!
AoS, I was only a dolphin when I was younger; when I grew up, I realized my inner otter. The other otters are not ready to accept me as an otter, however, and that is doing real violence to me. Damn cis-otters.
You must have been a lukewarm child, iknklast, otherwise you’d have been a little ‘otter.
I’ll see myself out.
Heaven forbid that you exercise some scepticism and independent thinking…
That’s the thing, though – he was there on a training course for work. He’s under orders. It’s not heaven that forbids him to exercise some scepticism and independent thinking, it’s his bosses. It’s not a seminar, it’s training. That’s why this shit is so grotesquely wrong – they’re having ideological fanatics “train” the police.
“What doctor diagnosed him as transduck?”
“Oh, some quack.”
Ophelia, I am very familiar with trainings of that nature, having sat through many myself. Our only trans training was related to “if someone is in the bathroom, do not tell them they are in the wrong bathroom. They know what bathroom is the right one”. Really? I have walked into the wrong bathroom before, especially when they are side by side, as many of the ones at our school are.
And how can we claim to want to protect our female students from campus rape if we can’t even say “no, men cannot go in the women’s bathrooms”? At the very least, have some damn definition of trans that allows us to keep predatory males out of the women’s room. For those of us who have been physically, emotionally, verbally, and sexually abused by males, the presence of a male-bodied person in such a vulnerable place is going to send us scurrying for the door, thus being branded a bigot and probably bringing the wrath of HR down on our heads because we aren’t following school policy.
iknklast, you’re not really asking for some kind of consideration of and protection for women, are you? Those oh-so harmless male-bodied people who may or may not identify as women but who want/demand to be in your spaces will be wounded, I tells ya. You monster!
Sackbut, that’s why one never sees bad doctors feeding ducks at the pond; they can’t put up with the insults.