It's not the police's job to shut down political debate. They should stick to solving crime | Sonia Sodha

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : This has today evolved into a system of recording non-crime hate incidents that cover five of the nine protected characteristics in the Equality Act, including transgender identity (but not, bizarrely, sex).
41% : Yet people (often women) of the "gender critical" view - that biological sex cannot be wholly replaced by gender identity in law and society - have been vulnerable to incursions on their free expression, because opponents have sought to misrepresent their position as so hateful that it is beyond the limits of legitimate discussion.
38% : Despite there being no evidence that Harry Miller, the man in question, might ever stray into unlawful speech, the police took action that reasonably led him to believe that he was being warned not to exercise his right to freedom of expression on pain of potential criminal prosecution; they also opined to the press that Miller's tweets were "transphobic".
38% : Several police forces pay the LGBT charity Stonewall for advice and training, despite Stonewall's promotion of a contested political stance on gender identity.

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