Transgender hate laws are being questioned by an ex-police officer via a new campaign called A Fair Cop, it was reported in May.
Harry Miller is spearheading the group after being visited at work by police in Humberside after retweeting a limerick about trans women. The force admitted there had been no crime committed. They had received training by Mermaids, the controversial group which teaches that there is a spectrum of genders.
A Fair Cop proposes guidance which would protect free speech ‘while continuing to provide robust protection against real crimes that are truly motivated by hatred’.
The current definition of a transgender hate incident is ‘any non-crime incident which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice against a person who is trans-gender or perceived to be transgender’. The guidance also states that police should record hate incidents ‘irrespective of whether there is any evidence to identify the hate element’.
