Graham Linehan's arrest was by no means a one-off. From the Telegraph – Retired police officer questioned after using trans woman’s male name:
A retired police officer was visited by her former force over social media posts “deadnaming” a transgender activist, The Telegraph can reveal.
Cathy Larkman, who served with South Wales Police for more than three decades, was shocked when former colleagues turned up at her door near Port Talbot on Sept 4.
The former superintendent said police informed her that the home visit was related to a handful of social media posts about a transgender activist named Freda Wallace.
Ms Larkam had called the activist Fred, using the “dead” male name of the now transgender woman, and this act had been reported to the police.
Not even the fig-leaf of threatening violence. Just "deadnaming".
It is believed that Ms Larkman was reported by a disgraced transgender police officer named Lynsay Watson – a figure with a history of urging the authorities to pursue criminal investigations of people who are critical of gender ideology.
The same trans activist who supposedly reported Linehan to the Met. What's going on? Why are the police so keen to act on this man's behalf?
Larkman has raised concerns about the apparent ease with which police forces can be used by activists.
She told the Telegraph: “The police service keeps demonstrating that it is ideologically captured from the top down. It is failing the public.
“It is also failing the brave officers who sign up, intending to serve that public – not to police their thoughts and words. They deserve a leadership that gives them the confidence and support to say a firm no to these extremists, not to capitulate to them….
Helen Joyce, a gender-critical writer and women’s rights campaigner, said she was also reported to the authorities, and now has a police investigation for “harassment” on her record. Court documents stated that Watson was behind reports to the police.
Watson also reported Stuart Campbell, a Scottish gender-critical campaigner, to Greater Manchester Police in 2023 over a series of social media posts.
The force decided not to take further action, and Watson launched a judicial review to challenge the decision. This was dismissed by the High Court this year…..
A spokesman for South Wales Police said: “Officers received a report of an alleged hate crime/malicious communications incident on Nov 26, 2024.
“As part of their investigation into the report, officers visited an address in Margam, Neath Port Talbot on Thursday, Sept 4. The threshold for a crime has not been met, and the investigation has been closed with no suspect or subject identified.”
Well good – but couldn't they have worked that out before making the visit? Or was intimidation, in fact, the point?
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