Good morning, this is the police
You have got to be kidding.
What a way to start the day! 2 early cold callers, one saying they're from the "call-blocking department", and a policewoman to tell me my online activity has caused offense to "transgenders", though she agreed a blog post wasn't untrue. Whoever's been offended tracked me down!
— Margaret Nelson (@Flashmaggie) February 4, 2019
The police. PHONING. Phoning to tell you your “online activity” has “caused offense.”
What blog post?
This blog post was mentioned. Apparently it's offensive.https://t.co/tnXG8VDLkW
— Margaret Nelson (@Flashmaggie) February 4, 2019
Let’s read it, to see if we can find what “caused offense” and of what type the caused “offense” was.
It starts with a tweet.
https://twitter.com/SamanthaMesse10/status/954267968183193600
It goes on to point out that cadavers are easy to sex.
If a transgender person’s body was dissected, either for medical education or a post-mortem examination, his or her sex would also be obvious to a student or pathologist. Not the sex that he or she chose to present as, but his or her natal sex; the sex that he or she was born with. Even when a body has been buried for a very long time, so that there is no soft tissue left, only bone, it is still possible to identify the sex. DNA and characteristics such as the shape of the pelvis will be clear proof of the sex of the corpse. Any surgery that had been intended to make someone appear different from his or her biological sex, the sex they were born with, will make no difference. It will still be obvious. There is a very small number of people who are described as intersex, because their anatomy isn’t typical of a male or female, but their existence doesn’t validate the claim that a man can be a woman or vice versa. They are very different from transgender people. So no, in life or in death, trans women are not women, no matter how many times you say it’s so. It’s simply impossible to change your sex.
It’s a factual question, not a political one, yet we keep being told it is factual (see the tweet from Sammy68). And the police call Margaret Nelson on the phone to tell her that her factual statements have “caused offense.” It’s both ludicrous and terrifying.
Mind you the police did later tell her it was just to “raise awareness.” But to what end? The police don’t normally call us up to tell us somebody disliked one of our tweets or blog posts, so why this time? Why? Why? Why? What red flag is up in what bureaucracy that warns police departments all over the UK that they have to be hypervigilant about perceived “offense” in blog posts and tweets about whether or not men can become women?
Hi Margaret, we had a number of people contact us on social media about the comments made online. A follow-up call was made for no other reason than to raise awareness of the complaints. Kind regards, Web Team.
— Suffolk Police (@SuffolkPolice) February 4, 2019
Funny how the police never phone up the angry men who target feminist women for days and weeks and months on end.
What? Women taking offense? Yawn. It’s just…women.
Oh, wait, transwomen are women, so…they are working to protect “women” – but only transwomen. And if there is nothing else that demonstrates that transwomen are not, in fact, women, it is the lengths to which bureaucracy will go to protect them. Nope, can’t be women unless everyone ignores you or tells you you should be flattered when you are harassed.
The sheer arrogance, that the cops think it’s their job to educate us — when most twitter-trans-critical folk are academic-intellectual-types and most cops are, well, the kind of people who become cops — it’s so ridiculous. Bobby-on-the-beat paying visits to women with PhD’s to educate them about sex and gender. What a world.
Good to see the police Web Team have finally moved away from petty, barely-a-crime problems such as on-line grooming of children and direct death threats, rape threats and so on, and can at last deal with the really serious stuff like protecting the delicate sensibilities of men who really, really are women, dammit.
#1
Women are ignorable, unless they are male.
Actually, skeletons aren’t THAT easily sexed. Note the recent discovery that Viking graves with weapons and high-status gear were women’s graves. Still, the ‘offensive’ post is making a pretty basic point.
Unanswered is the way that police worktime has been co-opted for THIS. After the repeated horrors of child-grooming gangs, the ongoing tide of domestic violence, and the vicious culture of online trolling…THIS is where the police are going to actually DO something?
Yes, but how much of the difficulty there was cultural expectations? Weapons? Must be men. They have a woman’s skeleton? No, weapons, must be men.
I think a lot of times we see what we want to see, or what we expect to see. As they put it in The Santa Clause (I got stuck watching because my son was the right age and just had to go see it!), “Seeing isn’t believing. Believing is seeing”. The movie saw that as a good thing; I see it as an impediment to knowledge.