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. ///

[woofgang]

Hmm I never liked pantomime dames.

[mushroom25]

that wraps it up for the pantomime.

(oh no it doesn't)

OH YES IT DOES!

[sandyRoe]

Will they be asked to run in high heels?

[sandyRoe]

Or, rather, asked not to.

[Baldric]

Methinks some people are a little too far up themselves!
:o(

[whiskeryron]

Oh what another load of *** ( almost rhymes with Horlicks)

[weecalf]

Maybe a case for the fashion police

[Old_Geezer]

Well if Golly is, I guess Dame must be too.

[mikey4444]

I agree Ron, but mine rhymes with rowlocks.....it must be a very slow news day for the Telegraph !

[jim360]

No. Drag acts seem to me to be not so much about making women (or transgender people, transvestites, etc) a figure of ridicule as it is about laughing at the men who dress up so. It's a bit of a quaint tradition perhaps but I'm disappointed, to say the least, that this particular transgender charity has managed to miss the point so dramatically.

[anotheoldgit]

jim360

/// No. Drag acts seem to me to be not so much about making women (or transgender people, transvestites, etc) a figure of ridicule as it is about laughing at the men who dress up so. ///

Why laugh at men who want to dress like women?

Some women have been dressing like men since the 60s.

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// it must be a very slow news day for the Telegraph ! ///

Or the Daily Mail, or any other publication that dares to report on something that puts certain groups in a bad light.

Just the same response we have come to expect from Mikey.

[bazwillrun]

shame the police didnt tell those complaining to eff off and grow some...and to stop wasting police crime...

I hate drag acts...is that a hate crime !?

[jim360]

Drag acts aren't really "men who want to dress like women" though. It's a very different thing altogether.

[retrocop]

The members of the Chrysalis Transgender support group,it would seem, are uncomfortable in their own skin.
I am sure the little children who are probably very uncomfortable in their skin and not through choice are receiving palliative care,maybe, in the last few days,weeks,months of their small time on earth.
Perhaps these mean,sad minded individuals should be put out of their misery and allow others to try and ensure these children ENJOY what is left of their short life.

[agchristie]

// "It's a small step from ridicule to persecution//

More like 'one small step for man, one giant leap BACKWARDS for mankind'....

[youngmafbog]

It's about time the Government grew a pair and stopped this rubbish.

So Police only have money to investigate burglaries at every other house but can find time and resource for this. Just shows to show the political leaning of Plod now it is run by right-on liberal 'academics' not real coppers.

[rsvp]

Oh please.......some people just need to accept most other people don't even think about them let alone try and find ways to 'hate' them. My 6'2" rugby playing brother used to regularly don a tutu and drill boots at RAF gala nights - it was for the chaps to laugh at him not to disrepect anyone. He was a scholar and a gent with impeccable manners.

[andy-hughes]

It looks as though the transgender charity is over-thinking this.

If anyone sees this as a message that transgender people should be demeaned and laughed at, then I would suggest that is merely re-enforcement of an existing prejudice. I can’t think that it’s a line of thought that the majority of people would follow – obviously not the charity, and I am sure the families of the children being supported have rather more on their minds than potential offence.

[Mamyalynne]

No.