Does Men Dressing Up As Women Constitute A Hate Crime?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11818229/Charity-race-for-childrens-hospice-where-runners-dress-in-drag-is-a-hate-crime.html

/// A charity fun run that invited men to dress up as women is being investigated by police after a transgender charity claimed the dress code constituted a hate crime. ///

[tonyav]

Does Men Dressing Up As Women Constitute A Hate Crime?


Only if their shoes and handbag doesn't match.

[tonyav]

And no it doesn't constitute an hate crime imo.

[-Talbot-]

They're just getting on the bandwaggon after Papa Smurf successfully got runners banned from Blue-ing up and wearing dodgy false white beards

[rsvp]

Think retrocops post should be sent to the group claiming the hate crime.

[sp1814]

I think this a massive over-reaction.

I just gives those with an agenda against certain people ammunition. We all know that certain people like nothing better than to stoke up hatred of gay people - it's sweet to see that they have enough bile left over to attack transgendered people.

This story is without merit.

If this is indeed a hate crime, then drag acts up and down the country should also be prosecuted.

[retrocop]

sp
I believe this transgender organisation are displaying enough bile against young innocent dying children for their own selfish pitiful feelings.
The likes of you and these selfish minority groups will probably never enjoy the entertainment that my wife and I have enjoyed with my grand daughters this afternoon.God forbid that I should ever have to visit them in a hospice whilst enjoying the last few days of their lives.
I have seen little kids regularly at the Royal Marsden Hospital regularly with wide eyed astonishment and mystified as to what is going wrong in their small fragile bodies.
Those children should be allowed to die in comfort because cruel fate has denied them the chance to grow up and enjoy life.
People who object because of their perverse petty,selfish feelings have no place in my world and should be offered a quick death to release them from their sad evil world.
Real men in the real world have often dressed up in drag to entertain their fellow inmates in extreme harsh internment. The Burma railway. Bridge over the River Kwai etc. I love little innocent children but I despair for them if the likes of this sad,selfish group object to charitable fund raising. These kids have no choice in their sorry plight. !!!

[sp1814]

retrocop

I believe I told you before, that I don't care what you think about anything. By all means post (you're free to do so), but do so in the knowledge that I have absolutely no interest in your opinion about anything.

[retrocop]

Fine with me.Sorry I touched a nerve and showed you up for what you are. :-)

[jim360]

In as much as this particular transgender group has got things horribly wrong about this I agree with you retrocop, although I wouldn't quite go as far as wishing death upon them as a result.

[jourdain2]

Absolutely not!

[Svejk]

Jim, I think I recognise the 2 guys on the outside of your avatar,,,,,but who's the scary looking one in the middle?

[jim360]

The "scary-looking guy" is me... :(

[Peter Pedant]

No ... or

this is an absolute travesty !

( pun: transvestite, travesty etc )

[Peter Pedant]

/ What annoys me, is that we now live in a world where the Police are "obliged" to investigate this (utterly ludicrous) //

they arent ( Blackburn v MPC ( Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis) 1972, but they may say they are .....

but after listening to retrocop you dont always believe what the police say do you ?

[retrocop]

PP
No you musn't believe everything I say.After all I don't suffer from a medicaly administered drug induced cosh?
Did the medics ever inform you when the effects may wear off?

[agchristie]

Meet Steph Holmes :-

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/419904/Steph-Holmes-sex-change

[DaisyNonna]

Hope they don't try to ban kilts

[retrocop]

A photograph of it captioned "recovering from a life changing operation"?
Would be nice if her/his type endorsed a charity that tried to finance " a life saving operation" for young children instead of bleating they are being dehumanised.