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. ///

[agchristie]

// who was born a boy called Stephen, was given strappy black heels as a Christmas present when she was just three years old.

And ever since she can remember she longed to become the woman she felt like inside.//

She knew aged 3 that she should have been born a female?? Sounds a bit tall to me (must've been the heels...)

[Kromovaracun]

According to their Twitter profile, the transgender charity in question (Chrysalis) did not contact the police, and they are claiming that the Telegraph's story is wildly inaccurate:

https://twitter.com/eBSIZZ/status/635609525349941248/photo/1

[Mamyalynne]

Interesting Kromo.

[whiskeryron]

I expect there are tablets out there but how many of you chaps would like to feel a new woman ?

[sp1814]

Kromovaracun

Interesting.

This might mean that some people have taken a press story and because it fits in nicely with their agenda to attack certain parts of society, it gains traction.

If it transpires that this story really is wildly inaccurate, the sad thing is, most people won't remember. In six months time it will still be 'true'.

It might be why in a recent survey, newspaper journalists were rated only just above politicians as being the least trustworthy profession in the country.

[agchristie]

This was in quotes, somebody reported it as a Hate Crime or is this false too I wonder...

Lancashire Police said: 'We are aware of and investigating an incident that was reported to us as a hate crime on Thursday."

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/08/23/trans-charity-label-drag-fun-run-for-hospice-a-hate-crime/

Chrysalis Transsexual Support Group, Ms Steph Holmes or whoever, someone must have reported it to the police.

[agchristie]

Ms Holmes fears for her safety and damage to Chrysalis... Here's an update:

http://ggwnews.com/news/10041/trans-activist-fears-for-her-safety-after-false-claims-she-tried-to-ban-drag-fun-run