Officers are investigating a large number of offensive stickers
James Kirkup at The Spectator:
Oxford is suffering a crime wave. Police are investigating numerous serious offences over more than six months. Thames Valley Police has issued this sweeping statement about unacceptable acts in the city:
“Thames Valley Police is appealing for witnesses following a number of public offences in Oxford.
Officers are investigating a large number of offensive stickers that have been placed across Oxford city centre containing transphobic comments. It is believed they started appearing in March 2019 within the High Street, Catte Street and Parks Road area.
Investigating officer PC Rebecca Nightingale based at St Aldates police station said: “Behaviour like this is not acceptable and we take incidents of this nature very seriously.
“I am appealing for anyone who may of witnesses these stickers being placed around the city or anyone who has information that may assist our investigation to call the non-emergency number 101, quoting reference 43190163238 or report online.
“Alternatively, you can contact the independent charity Crimestoppers 100% anonymously on 0800 555 111.”
As Kirkup says, it sounds very serious. Like, what? “Kill trans people on sight”?
Makes you wonder what sort of hateful, poisonous messages were on those stickers. It must be something pretty horrible, to prompt a police force to make an appeal like this, right? Maybe those stickers were inciting violence? Or perhaps they were encouraging people to otherwise break the law?
Oddly, Thames Valley Police didn’t explain in that dramatic statement exactly what sort of vile and hateful messages are on those “offensive” stickers. Even more oddly, when I asked the force what those stickers say, a press officer told me “the content and appearance of the stickers is not suitable for sharing.”
What? Then how can anyone possibly claim to “of witnesses these stickers being placed around the city”? How can people possibly know they’ve seen these stickers being placed when no one knows what they say? How stupid is that? They’ll get people phoning up to report “flat to let” stickers and lost cat stickers and jumble sale this Saturday stickers and god knows what else.
Fortunately, the Oxford Mail did a bit of reporting and appear to have established the horrifying truth.
The “offensive” and “transphobic” messages on those stickers, those terrible, hateful stickers now under active police investigation apparently include these:
“Woman: noun. Adult human female”
And:
“Women don’t have penises”
So…the police are calling on the citizenry to report stickers that say women are adult human females and don’t have penises.
What is wrong with everyone??
My god, how horrible! So offensive!
I expect the next step in the TRA agenda is to insist that all women’s lavatories must include urinals, because to do otherwise would be to discriminate against those women who have penises, aka TRANSPHOBIA!!!
So how does the TR movement get this Not Crime to show up on police radar at all? Police resources are finite. This will prevent the investigation of Actual Crime. The mind boggles, and is expected to be ready for more boggling when further boggle-inducement arrives. Which it always does.
Yes, I’ve been waiting for this step, too.
Oh no, they definitely don’t want urinals in the women’s loo because then the washroom won’t feel like a woman’s place anymore. Trans activists don’t want truly gender-neutral washrooms — they want access to women’s washrooms.
And because it will be way too evident to everyone, including those not following the issue, that transwomen are, in fact, not women. People will become aware that these are people with penises that are demanding to be treated as women. A lot of people I talk to are unaware that people can be considered trans without surgery, and this would make it too obvious what is happening. Too many peak trans.
“Transphobic” is the new useless joke word of our era. EVERYTHING is transphobic somehow. The shape of your nose is transphobic to someone, somewhere, you big bigot you, reading this (whoever you are).
Went to a chamber music concert at a local church.
Announcements included a note that the restrooms in the church are now [since last season] “inclusive”. I stayed in my seat at intermission, but wonder how many tested the waters [or were parishioners and knew the second floor RR was the one with urinals. Or if they pulled a stall or two from ladies to make room for urinals there as well. My SO suggested that she would probably avoid drinking coffee before the next concert.
#4 iknklast,
Indeed. To many, trans women are still just a vague, abstract idea, and one that is somehow associated with gay rights. As more and more people become exposed to the reality of who these people usually are — not particularly feminine blokes, that is — I think opinions will change.
Good point.
I think they should admit defeat, print up a bunch of “women have penises” stickers, and plaster those up all over town. It will be a great victory for trans activists, I’m sure.