New Home Secretary: Hate Crimes Against Trans People "Not Real Crimes"

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Suella Braverman attacks police for urging trans people to report hate crimes

Home secretary Suella Braverman has criticised police for encouraging trans people to report hate crimes based on their gender identity.

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New Home Secretary Suella Braverman has attacked police for encouraging trans people to report hate crimes based on gender identity, claims they are "not real crimes" and that police need to focus on actual criminals, not pandering to political correctness.

One of a growing number of anti-LGBTQ+ appointees in the new PMs regime, and a mere taste of the sort of bigoted viewpoint they engender.

Home secretary Suella Braverman has criticised a police force for encouraging trans people to report hate crimes based on their gender identity.

On 10 October, Leicestershire Police’s Stay Safe Twitter account, which represents the force’s crime reduction and hate crime officers, posted in support of National Hate Crime Awareness Week.

The force produced a graphic featuring a stock photo of a trans woman, which read: “I get called by my previous male name on purpose, but that’s not who I am. It can be really hurtful, especially when just seen as a joke.”


Alongside the graphic, Leicestershire Police tweeted instructions to report hate crimes via the Stamp It Out campaign.

‘Politically correct campaigns’​

But Braverman, who served as Attorney general for England and Wales before she was appointed as home secretary last month by Liz Truss, tweeted: “This week I have seen confusion amongst police forces about what constitutes a ‘hate crime’.


“The police need to enforce actual laws and fight actual crimes. Freedom of speech must be protected and a proportionate approach must be taken.

“The public need to have confidence in their police forces. This sort of thing undermines it.

“Senior police officers who allow this to happen can expect to have to explain to me why they’re spending vital resources on politically correct campaigns.”


But intentional deadnaming as presented in the force’s tweet can constitute an “actual crime”, despite Suella Braverman’s claims.

Any crime, including verbal abuse or online harassment, can be a hate crime if it demonstrates, or is motivated by, hostility towards the victim based on a protected characteristic like sexual orientation or gender identity.

‘Mockery at best, abuse at worst’​

LGBTQ+ former hockey player Beth Fisher described Braverman’s comments as “transphobia, plain and simple”, adding: “Don’t be surprised when they come for the rest of us. We have been warned.”

Sports reported Adam Crafton added: “Two factual observations: the Home Secretary doesn’t know the law and has used her large online platform to expose a minority group to mockery at best and abuse at worst.”

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

She should be ashamed of herself.

 

[PGen98]

She should be ashamed of herself.

Unfortunately this is exactly the type of person that the new PM, Liz Truss, wants in her government. So not only will she be proud of herself for this, but she'll probably get a lot of support.

 

[Webster]

Unfortunately this is exactly the type of person that the new PM, Liz Truss, wants in her government.

Not anymore; per the Guardian's UK live-blog...

Braverman uses resignation letter to say she has 'concerns about direction of government'
The resignation letter from Suella Braverman is fascinating, and raises a lot more questions than it answers. Here are the key points.

--Braverman says she resigned because she sent an official government document to an MP and this was “a technical infringement of the rules”. The document was a draft written ministerial statement about migration. Ministers use ministerial statements to announce relatively minor policy decisions, and although technically they count as confidential information, ministers routinely share documents like this with MPs in advance of publication. Braverman says she did this as part of “policy engagement” with a trusted colleague. Sky’s Sam Coates says the information was deemed “market sensitive”, because immigration policy will affect the OBR’s economic forecast. But this still does not feel like a mega-sensitive leak. MPs are regularly given information like this in advance, and you would need to be an exceptional economist to work out how a migration policy announcement would affect the OBR’s forecast.
--Braverman says she sent the official document from her personal email. Ministers are not meant to use personal email addresses for businesses. But many of them have done in the past, without losing their jobs. During Covid several ministers, including Boris Johnson, were reported to have used personal emails for government business.
--Braverman says she reported herself to the cabinet secretary over what she had did and is resigning because she holds herself “to the highest standards”. But it is not clear from this if she was sacked, or decided to go herself. It has been reported that what she did broke the ministerial code, and Liz Truss has said she wants to enforce higher standards than her predecessor. But the Committee on Standards in Public Life has said that ministers should not always have to resign for breaches of the ministerial code, and this seems – on what we know so far – to be a relatively minor breach.
--Braverman says “the business of governemnt relies upon people accepting responsibility for their mistakes”. She also says pretending not to have made a mistake “is not serious politics”. This passage takes us into very different territory, and suggests she had an ulterior motive. After all, it is not hard to think of an example of another cabinet minister who recently made a mistake and then took quite a while to own up to it.
--Braverman admits she has “concerns about the direction of this government”. In particular, she says she has concerns about the government’s commitment to reducing overall migration numbers. This is a direct reference to Truss saying, an an interview with the Sunday Telegraph during Tory conference, that she would like some types of immigration to rise, to promote growth. This passage makes this look like a policy resignation, from a rightwinger (with leadership ambitions) perhaps unhappy about the fact the Tory party is in effect under the control of the more centrist Jeremy Hunt.[/quote[

 

[Webster]

Apparently Ms. Braverman left because she made an "honest mistake"...

Braverman reportedly left over 'honest mistake' involving breaking rules for handling confidential information
Sky’s Sam Coates says he has been told that Suella Braverman left office in relation to an “honest mistake” involving an email being on a private phone.

UPDATE: Coates says he has been told there were two reasons for Braverman’s departure. He says one problem was that she had shared secure infomation on a private phone. In other words, she broke the rules on handling confidential information. He says he does not know the other reasons.

....yeah, and the check is in the mail and I promise Gen and I won't be too hard on Nebulous out by the admin woodshed....

 

[PGen98]

Aww, so sad she's gone

 

[Vaeve]

The new PM, Liz Truss

Are you glad she's gone? They'll probably appoint someone else even stupider, but I guess this is kind of a win.

 

[PGen98]

Are you glad she's gone? They'll probably appoint someone else even stupider, but I guess this is kind of a win.

It's a minor win, but yep, going to be someone just as awful replacing her, I'm sure.

 

[Webster]

It's a minor win, but yep, going to be someone just as awful replacing her, I'm sure.

They did; the Brexiteer's name is Rishi Sunak.
Yet another reason why #BrexitBrokeBritain.

 

[PGen98]

They did; the Brexiteer's name is Rishi Sunak.
Yet another reason why #BrexitBrokeBritain.

Such a shame, his ministers are also staunch anti-LGBTQ. His appointee for women's rights is known to consort with the LGB Alliance and other such hate groups

 

[Webster]

Such a shame, his ministers are also staunch anti-LGBTQ. His appointee for women's rights is known to consort with the LGB Alliance and other such hate groups

Another reason I hope Keir Starmer wipes them out across the kingdom....

 

[PGen98]

Another reason I hope Keir Starmer wipes them out across the kingdom....

Anyone to counter this insanity.

 

[Vaeve]

The third UK PM in a single year LET'S GO BOISSSSSSS

 

[PGen98]

The third UK PM in a single year LET'S GO BOISSSSSSS

The third problem in a single year. Need the conservatives out of there...

 

[Vaeve]

The third problem in a single year. Need the conservatives out of there...

Tfw when there's no election after 2 PMs resign in the span of months

 

[PGen98]

Tfw when there's no election after 2 PMs resign in the span of months

Need some kind of shakeup, because these people are not getting it done, and they're solely focusing on things that aren't genuine issues.

 

[Vaeve]

Need some kind of shakeup, because these people are not getting it done, and they're solely focusing on things that aren't genuine issues.

>Rishi becomes PM
>Immediately shootings begin in East London where there are a lot of immigrants

Based tbh. Man is up to an early start. I mean obviously not related, but with Liz becoming PM and the Queen dying right after; this has to have an effect or something lmao.

 

[PGen98]

>Rishi becomes PM
>Immediately shootings begin in East London where there are a lot of immigrants

Based tbh. Man is up to an early start. I mean obviously not related, but with Liz becoming PM and the Queen dying right after; this has to have an effect or something lmao.

I hate to think what's going to happen when he gets thrown out and a fourth one comes in...

 

[Webster]

The third problem in a single year. Need the conservatives out of there...

The problem was David Cameron agreeing to the Brexit referendum to begin with; everything else is just sandwich after sandwich....

 

[PGen98]

The problem was David Cameron agreeing to the Brexit referendum to begin with; everything else is just sandwich after sandwich....

True, very true. Britain went insane after that. Won't be long before we get to the referendums in Scotland and Northern Ireland (Wales just don't care, lol).