Not clear but let’s assume anyway
Robin Moira White gets confused from one paragraph to the next.
The stabbing of teenager Brianna Ghey in Warrington is a terrible tragedy for her family and my heart goes out to them. It is not clear whether the fact that she was trans was a factor in the events in Linear Park, Warrington, but shock at her death has rippled through the trans community.
I cannot help but feel this kind of tragedy was waiting to happen. Anyone who followed the Conservative leadership contest will have seen the candidates vying with each other to stoke “debate” over trans people’s lives; and such sentiment is something I, as Britain’s only trans discrimination barrister, have to cope with every day.
So………….”it’s not clear whether being trans was a factor, but being trans was definitely a factor and I have to cope with it every day.” That’s some high-class reasoning right there.
But wait, it gets better! He cites Montgomerie of all people.
Katy Montgomerie, a trans social media commentator, was recently assaulted on a night out with friends, just for being trans. She wrote about it on Twitter.
Monty says a guy threw a drink over him. We don’t know that he’s telling the truth. We don’t even know that he knows the difference between truth and fiction, which is one reason this ideology is so toxic. If he believes he’s a woman he could believe a lot of other bizarre things.
A law lecturer says White should know better. White spits venom.
It escalated.
Monty was lying. He had witnesses, he said. Why would he not call the police? He had the strength to tweet a stream of oh-woe-am-I whines but couldn’t call 911 in a case where he would have been obviously supported on the record by the police, with multiple witnesses (and presumably a wet head), even if the perp had fled the scene? Why not even file a police report in that case? Because filing a fake police report is a crime.
Monty is a liar.
The total number of stabbing murders in England and Wales was 282.
https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/uk-news/2023/02/11/man-dies-after-double-stabbing-in-london-as-deaths-from-knife-crime-reach-76-year-high/
Where are the TRA’s/MRAs on this senseless death of another 16 year old in the UK?
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-64657681
Not knowing anything about this person, “I, as Britain’s only trans discrimination barrister” is very unclear. Some possibilities:
1. ‘Trans’ is attached to ‘discrimination,’ meaning White is Britain’s only barrister to specialise in anti-trans discrimination.
2. ‘trans’ is attached to the compound noun ‘discrimination barrister,’ meaning White is Britain’s only person to identify as a barrister that specialises in discrimination cases without actually being one. Unlikely.
3. ‘trans’ is not attached to anything and ‘discrimination barrister’ is a compound noun, meaning White is Britain’s only person that is a trans man or woman that is also a barrister specialising in discrimination cases.
4. ‘trans’ is doing double duty – it is attached to ‘discrimination’ and also refers to White, meaning White is Britain’s only person that is a trans man or woman that also is a barrister specialising in anti-trans discrimination.
I suspect #4 is the intended meaning.
Holms, all I can say is Syntax – how does it work?
James G @1,
I don’t put a ton of stock in Monty’s story, either, but to be completely fair, I seriously doubt that I would call the police if someone threw a drink in my face at a bar. I’d ask the staff to remove that person, and if they didn’t, I’d leave, but that would be the end of it for me. The thought of wasting more of my evening talking to police and demanding charges over a rude but not all that harmful act doesn’t appeal.
But then, I’m not an activist who’s claiming to have been the victim of a hate crime, so it’s a little different I suppose.