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>On Feb. 9, The Daily Mail in the U.K. published a story detailing the harrowing detainment of 38-year-old Kate Scottow. Scottow, a resident of Hertfordshire, E

by swebs 6y ago

>On Feb. 9, The Daily Mail in the U.K. published a story detailing the harrowing detainment of 38-year-old Kate Scottow. Scottow, a resident of Hertfordshire, England, was handcuffed in front of her autistic ten-year-old daughter and breastfeeding 20-month-old son, brought into custody and held for seven hours in a single jail cell. >What heinous action warranted such drastic measures? The crime of “misgendering,” or calling a transgender individual by their biologically determined set of pronouns instead of their preferred pronouns, precipitated Scottow’s arrest. Stephanie Hayden, a biological male who recently transitioned to identifying as female on social media, reported Scottow to the police. If you would have tried to tell people 10 years ago that this actually happened, people would have thought you were crazy, or accuse you of promoting the slippery slope fallacy.

PrinceKropotkin 6y ago
As a major believer in respecting pronoun usage it's ridiculous this is a crime.
lifeformed 6y ago
The article makes it sound like she just accidentally used the wrong word, but in actually, she was repeatedly harassing the person and breaking what appears to be some sort of restraining order to do so. Whether an arrest is warranted is another question, but as always, it's a little less ridiculous with context.
inopinatus 6y ago
Perhaps they would simply level an accusation of credulously accepting the Daily Mail's endless sewer of confected outrage fantasy.
- mmm_grayons 6y ago
  Fair enough; here's another site that appears to be approaching it from the opposite perspective: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/14/kate-scottow-stephanie-hayden-guilty-trans-woman-online-abuse-twitter-st-albans-hertfordshire/ https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/14/kate-scottow-stephanie... Different spin, for sure, but the facts appear to be the same. I'd have posted multiple sources if I knew this would be contended. Here's another article on it: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-stand-with-kate-scottow https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-stand-with-kate-scotto...
peteretep 6y ago
If you'd told me 10 years ago that someone would be arrested for hate speech, I'd have ... believed you?

by swebs 6y ago

PrinceKropotkin 6y ago

As a major believer in respecting pronoun usage it's ridiculous this is a crime.

lifeformed 6y ago

The article makes it sound like she just accidentally used the wrong word, but in actually, she was repeatedly harassing the person and breaking what appears to be some sort of restraining order to do so. Whether an arrest is warranted is another question, but as always, it's a little less ridiculous with context.

inopinatus 6y ago

Perhaps they would simply level an accusation of credulously accepting the Daily Mail's endless sewer of confected outrage fantasy.

mmm_grayons 6y ago
Fair enough; here's another site that appears to be approaching it from the opposite perspective: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/14/kate-scottow-stephanie-hayden-guilty-trans-woman-online-abuse-twitter-st-albans-hertfordshire/ https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/14/kate-scottow-stephanie... Different spin, for sure, but the facts appear to be the same. I'd have posted multiple sources if I knew this would be contended. Here's another article on it: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-stand-with-kate-scottow https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-stand-with-kate-scotto...

peteretep 6y ago

If you'd told me 10 years ago that someone would be arrested for hate speech, I'd have ... believed you?