{"id":77249,"date":"2023-09-03T20:35:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T20:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/?p=77249"},"modified":"2023-09-03T20:35:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T20:35:28","slug":"suella-braverman-flags-police-quizzing-oap-on-gender-rights-sticker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/suella-braverman-flags-police-quizzing-oap-on-gender-rights-sticker\/","title":{"rendered":"Suella Braverman flags police quizzing OAP on gender rights sticker"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Suella Braverman says case of pensioner quizzed over &#8216;keep males out of women-only spaces&#8217; sticker is an example of police &#8216;straying into politically contentious matters&#8217;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The incident happened in Happy Valley setting Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Officers told the pensioner she had been identified from CCTV footage<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Suella Braverman has voiced alarm at the case of a pensioner quizzed over a sticker which said &#8216;keep males out of women-only spaces&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The Home Secretary highlighted the episode involving a 73-year-old social worker as an example of police &#8216;straying into politically contentious matters&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers apparently questioned the woman in her own home after she stopped to take a photograph of the sticker in the street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It had been placed on to a LGBT+ pride poster which had the slogan Stand By Your Trans. Officers told the 73-year-old retired social worker that she had been identified from CCTV footage.<\/p>\n<p>The woman told The Mail on Sunday she was &#8216;in a state of shock&#8217; when officers arrived at her door. The incident happened in Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire \u2013 the setting for BBC crime drama Happy Valley about no-nonsense policewoman Catherine Cawood. It comes after fury over police forces failing to send officers to investigate burglaries and other serious crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, the woman said she had stopped to take a photo with her phone because she agreed with its message that transgender\u00a0women \u2013 who were born male \u2013 should not be allowed into women-only spaces such as changing rooms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She did not share the image on social media and only took the photo to show to her partner when she got home.<\/p>\n<p>But several days later, while she was caring for her seriously ill female partner, two uniformed officers from West Yorkshire Police came calling.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/02\/16\/74992387-12473521-image-a-2_1693669689634.jpg\" height=\"353\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The sticker had been placed on to a LGBT+ pride poster which had the slogan Stand By Your Trans. Officers told the 73-year-old retired social worker that she had been identified from CCTV footage<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/03\/16\/75013325-12475885-image-a-1_1693755478900.jpg\" height=\"161\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Home Secretary highlighted the episode involving a 73-year-old social worker as an example of police &#8216;straying into politically contentious matters&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They gave me a long lecture about the sensitivity of the issue, and how something like this could cause harassment and alarm to the community,&#8217; she said. &#8216;They were investigating it as a hate crime, which is outrageous. I was in a state of shock.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The pensioner, who insisted that she didn&#8217;t put the sticker on the poster, said she believed she was reported to the police by LGBT+ community group Happy Valley Pride which had put up the Stand By Your Trans poster on an A-board outside the town hall in March.<\/p>\n<p>The group knew the woman&#8217;s identity from when she previously wrote to them with her concerns about transgender women being allowed into single-sex spaces. The woman, who said she had complained to West Yorkshire Police about her treatment, asked not to be named over fears of reprisals from online trolls and activists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think they wanted to correct my thinking,&#8217; she added. &#8216;They are getting involved in a very divided and toxic debate, but it&#8217;s not their role to arbitrate political disagreements. I felt as if they were trying to gag a dissenting voice by harassing me in my own home.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The police log, which she obtained via a data access request, stated that they had given her &#8216;words of advice . . . regards the harassment and alarm that this sticker could potentially cause to the community&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Posting on the X social media site today, Ms Braverman said: &#8216;This is exactly what I had in mind when writing to police chiefs and commissioning the\u00a0@HMICFRS review over forces straying into politically contentious matters.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>West Yorkshire has the second-highest crime rate in the UK, but more than 90 per cent of cases go unsolved in the area, according to official figures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/03\/16\/75013403-12475885-image-a-2_1693755831985.jpg\" height=\"674\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ms Braverman has raised concerns about police getting involved in gender issues<\/p>\n<p>The same force provoked outrage last month when officers arrested a 16-year-old autistic girl in Leeds for suggesting that a short-haired police officer resembled her &#8216;lesbian nana&#8217;. Viral footage showed seven officers manhandling the girl, who cried out in distress as they took her into custody for a suspected &#8216;homophobic public-order offence&#8217;. The case was later dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Miller, a former police officer, last night accused the officers of &#8216;thought policing&#8217;. He set up the free-speech group Fair Cop after he was investigated in 2019 for posting a limerick on social media suggesting that transgender women are still men. The case was later dropped and he won a High Court case against Humberside Police.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;How can a woman photographing a sticker cause alarm and distress to the Happy Valley Pride community? There is politically correct rot at the heart of West Yorkshire policing.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Stella O&#8217;Malley, psychotherapist and founder of international group Genspect, said: &#8216;It&#8217;s not the job of the police to decide that taking a photo is a hate crime.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>West Yorkshire Police said it had recorded the matter as a &#8216;non-crime hate incident&#8217;, adding: &#8216;Words of advice were given regarding the placing of the sticker, as it was reported to have caused offence.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12475885\/Suella-Braverman-pensioner-trans-gender-police-sticker.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suella Braverman says case of pensioner quizzed over &#8216;keep males out of women-only spaces&#8217; sticker is an example of police &#8216;straying into politically contentious matters&#8217; The incident happened in Happy Valley setting Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire\u00a0 Officers told the pensioner she had been identified from CCTV footage Suella Braverman has voiced alarm at the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Suella Braverman flags police quizzing OAP on gender rights sticker - posterboyedit<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/suella-braverman-flags-police-quizzing-oap-on-gender-rights-sticker\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Suella Braverman flags police quizzing OAP on gender rights sticker - posterboyedit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Suella Braverman says case of pensioner quizzed over &#8216;keep males out of women-only spaces&#8217; 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