Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Mandatory shop bags.

How is it the shop’s business to have anything to say about a customer’s decision to accept or reject a shopping bag? The “Progressive Pride” flag is not, as we have discovered, a neutral statement. It’s no longer even friendly. It is the banner of forced teaming, of aggressive, insistent parasitism of trans activism on gay and lesbian rights. It is a statement of a political ideology and religious belief. It is the promotion of an anti-that is profoundly anti-women. It is the flag of an occupying army flexing its muscles in yet another power play, and the shop’s behaviour confirms it: they called the fucking police. And even more unbelievably, THE FUCKING POLICE FUCKING RESPONDED! The correct answer on the operator’s part would have been to tell the wannabe Stasi informant to go away and stop wasting the police’s time or face charges. But no. It turns out that the police are quite happy to waste their time and intimidate members of the public by jumping to the call of furious, authoritarian trans “allies” who can’t stand the thought of anyone failing to accept with fervour and gratitude the Flag of Enforced Compliance being thrust upon them. Off to re-education camp for them!

At least police in the UK don’t seem to be as heavily armed or trigger-happy as American cops, otherwise there might have already been bloodshed over stickers, ribbons, limericks, or sarcasm.