The Sussex pronoun police force

The Daily Mail reports:

Sussex Police released a humiliating apology for defending the gender of a legally male paedophile online, after the Home Secretary said the force should be focusing on ‘catching criminals’ not ‘policing pronouns’.

Suella Braverman waded into the Twitter storm after the force said they ‘would not tolerate’ any hateful comments towards the gender identity of convicted paedophile Sally Ann Dixon, 58. 

Dixon, who was born John Stephen Dixon, was convicted of 30 counts of indecent assaulted which took place in the late 1980s and 1990s before she transitioned. …

Sussex Police tweeted that they: ‘do not tolerate any hateful comments towards their gender identity regardless of crimes committed. This is irrelevant to the crime that has been committed and investigated.’

Ms Braverman MP piled in saying: ‘Sussex Police have done well to put a dangerous criminal behind bars. But they’ve got it wrong by playing identity politics and denying biology. Focus on catching criminals not policing pronouns’

Several hours later the force issued an apology saying their previous tweet was ‘inconsistent’ with their usual style and emphasised the public are allowed to ‘express themselves freely within the boundaries of the law’.

It shouldn’t need the Home Secretary to get involved for a police force to stop threatening people for not using preferred pronouns.

And people wonder why some of us are nervous about bring in hate speech laws in NZ!