Flapthink crime
According to figures released by the UK Home Office, transgender hate crime has risen by 11% over the last year in England and Wales. That sounds quite startling, until you look into what constitutes a hate crime
.
The police and the CPS have agreed the following definition for identifying and flagging hate crimes: "Any criminal offence which is perceived by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice, based on a person's disability or perceived disability; race or perceived race; or religion or perceived religion; or sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation or transgender identity or perceived transgender identity." There is no legal definition of hostility so we use the everyday understanding of the word which includes ill-will, spite, contempt, prejudice, unfriendliness, antagonism, resentment and dislike.
Crown Prosecution Service, Hate crime
Okay, so there has to be a criminal offence committed. But if there's any perception, by anyone, of hostility—broadly defined to include among other things, unfriendliness
; resentment
; and dislike
, tantamount to policing thought and feeling—it can constitute a hate crime
. No wonder the bloody rates are increasing, under such an all-inclusive definition as that. Especially, since snowflake fragility heightens perception, such that any slight becomes hostility
.
At the forefront of monitoring hate speech and crime lies Prof. Matthew Williams and Cardiff University's catchily-named HateLab.
Prof Williams's HateLab project uses artificial intelligence to monitor hate speech online to find out if it translates to real-world hate crimes. He said there has been a significant rise in anti-trans rhetoric across social media over the past few years.
Lauren Moss, Josh Parry, and Julia Bryson, BBC News
I wonder if Prof. Williams' work extends upstream, to correlate antitrans rhetoric with the rise in antinormie rhetoric and behaviour by the trans fascists. Probably not, because that would be difficult and unaligned with the national flap‑flap‑flap agenda. (shrug)
On the other hand, hate crimes related to race and sexual orientation have both declined by 6%. I'm sure the increase in transgender hate crimes has absolutely nothing to do with the obnoxious manner in which the T-brigade and their allies have conducted themselves, forcing their minority mental illness onto the majority of the population, especially against the half born with vagina. Oh no.
Keeping a high profile
Moss, Parry, and Bryson's article highlights one Shea Coffey as a transgender woman who has been abused
. A more recent article has Ms Coffey claiming that countless
times on the school runwalking down the street has become difficult
, while parading down a largely empty street wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with Trans is not a choice transphobia is
.
Y'know, Shea me ol' cock, you might find walking down the street easier if you were dressed less provocatively, like most people do. If you go looking for trouble, it'll find you. (pipe)