Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
A police force has agreed to remove all Pride rainbows and transgender livery from its vehicles following a landmark High Court ruling.
Northumbria Police has also told its officers and staff they cannot attend a Gay Pride march in uniform this weekend, in a move that could set a precedent for other forces.
Northumbria was taken to court by a gender-critical lesbian who said it was wrong for officers to take part in events that promoted gender ideology.
The move comes after Linzi Smith, 34, a gender-critical lesbian from Newcastle, brought a case against Northumbria Constabulary, arguing that it had been wrong to allow uniformed officers to actively participate in an event that promoted gender ideology and was supported by transgender activists.
In his ruling, the judge, Mr Justice Linden, said it was important that police forces were not perceived as taking sides in contentious social debates.
Ffs. Police officers want to support a gay pride event, and a Lesbian woman became so offended by that she raised a court case against them. One that I cannot believe was upheld.
Why are TERFs so emboldened here?
Imagine telling someone this a few decades ago:
“Yeah the police want to support a LGBT pride event and…”
“Wait they what? They want to support it?”
“Yeah, anyway the court ruled against it.”
“Lobbying from an anti-LGBT wing of the clergy, I suppose?”
“Nah, a small group of lesbians.”
The “sides” are the LGBT community and those that hate them.
This is wrong. The person who took Northumbria Police to court was a lesbian and hence a member of the LGBT community. It doesn’t make sense for the “sides” to include the LGBT community.
You’re conflating the gender supporting (as oppose to gender critical) community and the LGBT community.
You’ll never guess what the ‘T’ in LGBT stands for…
This person is absolutely standing against the LGBT community. She is actively seeking to drive a wedge between LGBT communities and the police, making the entire community less safe in the process, as well as trying to divide people in regards to LGBT issues.
She will happily cut off her nose to spite her face, if it means harming trans people.
And being part of a community doesn’t make you immune from being against the community. There’s plenty of anti-immigration immigrants, there’s homophobic/transphobic/biphobic people in the LGBT community, there were people from colonies who saw their own colonies as barbaric and welcomed white masters, there were Jews in Germany who hated Jews and happily supported Nazis, there are working class people who are disdainful of working class culture.
You’ll never guess what the ‘T’ in LGBT stands for…
You’ll never guess what the ‘L’ in LGBT stands for…
She is actively seeking to drive a wedge between LGBT communities and the police
I don’t see how you can come to that conclusion given the article. You seem to be jumping to conclusions.
as well as trying to divide people in regards to LGBT issues
Again, I don’t see how you can come to that conclusion about her goals. The fact that she simply has a different opinion to others doesn’t imply a goal of dividing people. Dividing people may be a conseqeunce of her actions but that doesn’t imply it’s her goal.
She will happily cut off her nose to spite her face, if it means harming trans people.
Again, this is jumping to conclusions.
And being part of a community doesn’t make you immune from being against the community. … there’s homophobic/transphobic/biphobic people in the LGBT community
True but that doesn’t mean any particular person who is critical of one section of the community is necessarily against the whole community, that doesn’t follow.
there were Jews in Germany who hated Jews and happily supported Nazis
Firstly wow that took no time at all en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
Secondly, this is a false equivalence. Every example you’ve given is of a member of a community being against the whole community but in the case we’re discussing, a member of a community is critical of only part of the community, not the whole community.
You’ll never guess what the ‘L’ in LGBT stands for…
It stands for Lesbian. What is your point?
I’m not the one going against the LGBT community, she is.
I don’t see how you can come to that conclusion given the article.
Did you read it?
Again, I don’t see how you can come to that conclusion about her goals.
??? She doesn’t think Trans people, a part of the LGBT community, exist.
Again, this is jumping to conclusions.
It really isn’t.
True but that doesn’t mean any particular person who is critical of one section of the community is necessarily against the whole community, that doesn’t follow.
It absolutely follows. If you are against Trans people, you are against LGBT.
Firstly wow that took no time at all en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
I’m well aware of what Godwin’s law is. What’s your point, exactly? It’s relevant.
Do you deny that there were Jews in Germany who hated the Jewish community? Yes or no?
Firstly wow that took no time at all en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin’s_law
Bravo! This always makes me laugh!
“You’ll never guess what the ‘L’ in LGBT stands for…”
Hate to burst your bubble but Lesbians are actually more supportive of transgender people than any other cisgender demographic.
I don’t understand why this is downvoted so much. This is the correct response.
It’s something that my psychiatrist wouldn’t say to my face, therefore it should be downvoted.
catty@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s so cute that young people have been conditioned to think this. Pride is about capitalism. Nothing more.
Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
What are you babbling about?
Is everything okay at home?
Slice of life from inside the glass house apparently. Put the stone down please.
catty@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Your post history has some very typical LLM-generated red flags. Just sayin’!
Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
I gave you the “transphobe asshole” tag. Is that what other LLMs would do too?
Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
I have no fucking clue what you’re talking about.
Is it because I’m multilingual and you can’t wrap your head around that concept? Just askin’!