Is Using The 'wrong' Pronoun 'misgendering' And Therefore Worthy Of A Police Investigation As A Hate Crime?

[Deskdiary]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6827459/Catholic-journalist-questioned-caution-police-misgendering-someones-daughter.html

[fiction-factory]

It depends on the circumstances- I know that as a teacher who travels from school to school I've very occasionally used the wrong one as I've mistaken the gender.
There again I suffer a hate crime most days- there will always be one person who answers the register "yes miss" .

[Peter Pedant]

you still teaching FF - you are stronger than most ....

reading the article - RC and I will go to prison for my beliefs
so it is nothing about a mistaken misgendering

it is about someone holding out on their principles and shouting look everybody, I am holding out on my .....

and all about cafflic martyrs - o god isnt 40 enough?

[Peter Pedant]

damn - forty enough already ?

[agchristie]

//Sentences for those found guilty under this act can be as long as two years.//

Yet again,the most severest punishment has to be mentioned!

Never in a million years for this.She's been called in for a 'voluntary interview'.

She ain't going to end up in jail.

[anotheoldgit]

Oh what times we live in!!!!!

[agchristie]

My grandfather would never recognise the planet he left 20 years ago!!

[JF85]

It's a sad world when the newspaper most often linked to from this site can't even spell Guildford but expects to be taken as serious journalism.

[naomi24]

Police resources are being well used then. :o/

[vetuste_ennemi]

//reading the article - RC and I will go to prison for my beliefs
so it is nothing about a mistaken misgendering

it is about someone holding out on their principles and shouting look everybody, I am holding out on my .....

and all about cafflic martyrs - o god isnt 40 enough?//

I think that's about as clear an answer to the question as anyone might hope. And far better than this poster ever expected.

[ludwig]

In theory, it's impossible to know what the right pronoun is, because it depends on how the person 'identifies', which is not something you have knowledge of when you meet people, and may well may be completely unrelated to the way they look or behave.

[Old_Geezer]

It certainly is. All those folk who berate others because they insist on telling the truth and using the correct pronoun, rather than newspeak/'emperor's new clothes' incorrect pronoun for someone, for PC reasons, need to be made an example of. Hate against defenders of the truth is unacceptable in a civilised society.

[naomi24]

I once got told off by the recipient of a letter I'd addressed as 'Mr'. He was a transvestite and not best pleased. Who knows?

[Old_Geezer]

In fact the DM article shows an example of what needs stamping out. Police investigating someone being honest instead of those that brought them in.

[naomi24]

^Yes.

[woofgang]

accidental use of the wrong pronoun may not be an issue (or shouldn't be) but from the article, this woman was deliberately being rude and provocative....and yes PP surely 40 RC martyrs are enough and we don't need any more.

[youngmafbog]

Clearly Police are not short of money if they can afford to do this.

"this woman was deliberately being rude and provocative"

Is that illegal now then? I wouldn't be surprised if TROB thought it was (Only if they are not doing it of course).

[pixie374]

Nobody "genders" or "misgenders" anyone. In English, at least, pronouns are based on biological sex only, otherwise we would all be changing ours all day every day, depending on how we felt and what we were doing.
If we start imprisoning people for correct vocabulary... (which a DNA test will easily prove)... we are all in trouble.