Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Nice LGBT+ training, Karl.

A Met Police training officer called anti-transgender women a “bunch of lesbians”, a tribunal has heard. Sgt Karl Eccott, an LGBT+ training officer, allegedly made the comments in a session with trainee Melanie Newman, who is now bringing harassment and direct discrimination claims against the Met.

Wait. This is, supposedly an LGT+ training officer, using “lesbian” in a way that can only be considered as pejorative? Hello, lesbians are supposed to be part of the “community” you’re allegedly doing training for and about. Remember the L? (Hint: it’s right there in front.) And what if they were all lesbians? What would be wrong with that?. Obviously you think something is wrong with that because you’re dismissing and vilifying them, and saying that they can and should be ignored and disregarded, that their views are vile and disgusting.

Ms Newman is now a detective constable with the Met, based in the child abuse investigation team in Croydon, the tribunal heard.

Good thing it’s her and not Eccott in this post, as she’s going to be better at determining exactly who needs protection than Karl ever will.

I guess the Met hasn’t been keeping track of all those other employment tribunals that have pointed out and critisized trans over-reach and bigotry in the organizations being held to account, finding in favour of women who have stood up against the poisonous atmospheres permitted and enforced by their employers. Not satisfied with learning from the highlighting of pervasive, deliberate discrimination practiced by other captured institutions, the Met decided to forge ahead and put themselves through this embarrassing spectacle of having their noses rubbed in their own bigotry.

She added: “The impression I had was of someone who deeply loathed [gender-critical] women. I did not perceive Echo as a woman but as an angry man.”

Newman can count. She saw four lights. Good thing she didn’t write a limerick.

I guess “Eva Echo” didn’t read How to Win Friends and Influence People. But with the power of the Met behind him, and officers like Karl, why argue and persuade, when he can just use bullying and intimidation. Who needs to marshal facts when you can yell and scream and point? What’s good for the public is good for the Force, right?