The Telegraph:

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.

Ms Newman claimed in her witness statement to the tribunal, held in Croydon, south London, that the Met Police was a “hostile environment” for anyone with gender-critical opinions.

That’s so Met Policey. Women are horrible and deserve whatever they get, while trans women are saints and deserve endless flattery and the chance to abuse women.

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

She listed several “symptoms” of what she called an anti-gender-critical narrative at the Met, including the invitation of trans activists to speak who she said were “extremely hostile” to gender-critical people.

Eva Echo, a transgender activist, told a 2023 Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) seminar that trans people needed to be “saved” from gender-critical people, who had “warped, twisted views”, Ms Newman claimed.

There it is again. Trans “women” are invited to give seminars, while actual women are called names.

Imagine the Met bringing in white people in blackface to give seminars while abusing actual black people as warped and twisted.

The Met doesn’t do that, but it does do the equivalent to women. Why?

Ms Newman – who describes herself as gender-critical, having a belief in only two sexes – claimed speakers at the event delivered a one-sided “invective” and she “couldn’t believe” what she was hearing.

She doesn’t have a “belief” in only two sexes. The “belief” is the one that says men can be women and women can be men. Two sexes is just a very obvious fact.

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.”

She later complained internally but was told no further action would be taken because the transgender activist was not an employee.

Again, I have to wonder – would she have been told that if she had complained about a blatantly poisonously racist speaker? In the past, yes, but now, I don’t think so.

Ms Newman said she did not challenge New Scotland Yard’s TDOV event at the time because senior officers had “effectively endorsed” it.

On why she was now suing the Met, she added: “I feel only a public ruling that TDOV was discriminatory and an act of harassment in the context of all these facts will persuade the MPS that its reaction to my complaint to this date has been inadequate and that more decisive management action in support of [gender critical] staff is needed.”

Det Chief Insp Charlotte Cadden, who is a lesbian, agreed the event was “discriminatory”.

She said: “The homophobic terminology used by two of the speakers is classed as offensive by many gay people and felt specifically oppressive to me as a lesbian officer.”

Aileen McColgan KC, acting on behalf of the Met, told Ms Cadden the purpose of the TDOV event was to “celebrate trans identity”.

Well yes, that’s quite clear, but why? Why do the police need to celebrate trans idenniny”? Especially at the expense of female idenniny? Why are men who pretend to be women saints while actual women are garbage? Why can we never get out of this pit of loathing and contempt?