UK Judges Rule that Right to Free Speech Includes, Necessarily, the Right to Offend, and That Even Includes Calling a Biological Man by His Correct Pronouns

What a horrible time to be alive, where it's a controversial, major ruling -- which will probably be overruled -- that people's free speech rights even include the right to not participate in a mentally-ill man's Gender Cosplay Fantasies.

Victory in the war on woke: Judges' landmark ruling in case of mother who called trans woman 'he' on Twitter means freedom of speech DOES includes the 'right to offend'

Two judges have ruled that free speech encompasses offensive language

The offensive language was the pronoun "he."

Also: "pig in a wig."

You can say that men wear toupees, but it's a literal crime to say that a tranny wears a wig.

Lord Justice Bean and Mr Justice Warby presiding over case in Court of Appeal
Ruling came in successful appeal decided last week in favour of Kate Scottow

Feminist prosecuted for calling a transgender woman a man and 'pig in a wig'

She had been found guilty under the 2003 Communications Act this year

She had been found guilty of the crime of Successfully Spotting a Man.

I saw someone on twitter refer to "Biology, the forbidden science."

Judges have insisted that freedom of speech includes the 'right to offend' in a landmark ruling which could help to turn the tide on 'woke' intolerance after a feminist who called a transgender woman a 'pig in a wig' and a 'man' was cleared.

Presiding over a case in the Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Bean and Mr Justice Warby said: 'Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having.'

They added that 'free speech encompasses the right to offend, and indeed to abuse another'. The judgment from two senior members of the judiciary will set a precedent for future cases involving freedom of speech.

Speaking of: You're all a bunch of morons and you find new ways to disappoint me every day.

Also, I called all of your parents, and they're disappointed in you too.

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Miss Scottow told The Daily Telegraph: 'It was necessary to enshrine one of the most fundamental rights of every living being in a democratic society -- the right to freedom of speech that is now routinely attacked...' But Miss Hayden said: 'This is... a kick in the teeth to the entire LGBT community.'

It seems to me that if one wants to retain his rights without legal (and illegal) harassment, one must exclude transgenders to the extent possible.

Is that really want they want?

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Miss Scottow was arrested in 2018 and taken from her children and into custody after referring to trans woman Stefanie Hayden as a man, a 'racist' and a 'pig in the wig'. Miss Hayden, 47, reported the online remarks to police.

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In February this year radical feminist Miss Scottow, 40, was handed a two-year conditional discharge, and ordered to pay £1,000 compensation, with district judge Margaret Dodds telling her: 'Your comments contributed nothing to a debate. We teach children to be kind to each other and not to call each other names in the playground.'

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Activist Miss Hayden, who began medically transitioning in 2007 and was given a gender recognition certificate in 2018, won a landmark case at the High Court in April last year when website Mumsnet was forced to reveal the identity of an anonymous user who had been accused of bullying her online.

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In a separate incident Father Ted creator Graham Linehan was given a verbal harassment warning by West Yorkshire Police after Miss Hayden reported him for referring to her by previous names and pronouns on Twitter in 2018.

Police faced a backlash for phoning a 74-year-old woman to warn her that her online posts about gender identity had offended transgender people.

Former local journalist Margaret Nelson wrote in her blog that if a transgender person's body was dissected post-mortem, 'his or her sex would be obvious to a student or pathologist'.

But she was later contacted by Suffolk Police, who woke her with a morning phone call, telling her the comments had provoked complaints from members of the trans community.

Nazis.

What was that rule the left established about Nazis, again?

And affirming the right to offend:

My shelves are fucking outstanding, and you can carry a laptop in a messenger bag.

Go fuck yourselves.

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I don't understand, how can this be?

I don't want him to die a lonely, fiercely-heterosexual bachelor like Paul Lynde, Jm J. Bullock, Liberace, or Obama after his divorce.

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