From the article:
The move comes after Linzi Smith, 34, a gender-critical lesbian from Newcastle, brought a case against Northumbria Constabulary, arguing that it had been wrong to allow uniformed officers to actively participate in an event that promoted gender ideology and was supported by transgender activists.
People who filled out the 2021 census in England and Wales were asked: “Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth?” According to the ONS, 262,000 people - around 0.5% of the population - answered “no”.
The ONS states that there are 60,238,000 total people in England and Wales.
Gender critical people, almost always cis women, can go to hell. They go out of their way to try (and lately succeed) to suppress any support for trans people and to exclude trans women from any space that is oriented for women. They fear monger, calling us perverts and degenerates that want to prey on poor, defenseless, innocent women.
Anyone who advocates for the disenfranchisement of trans people is an objectively shit person. We just want to live our lives and not be singled out for discrimination.
There are actually more transphobic men than women but the “movement” fronts cis women so they can pull the “muh oppressed” line.
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Here’s the article again.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/18/pride-rainbows-removed-police-cars-court-ruling/
Northumbria was taken to court by a gender-critical lesbian who said it was wrong for officers to take part in events that promoted gender ideology
Maybe try reading? Just a thought…
Nah, still fuck the U.K.
👍 ok friend.
I’m not sure what point you feel you’ve made?
The real gender ideology are traditional gender roles and the notion that gender is determined by sex.
Never mind the comments here on Lemmy, but you really need a hazmat suit to enter the comments on that article. Over 1400 of them, each somehow a different type of phobic. Living up to the nickname “TERF Island”.
This is the Torygraph, don’t read the comments unless you want to do psyc damage to yourself.
I’m not sure it was the wisest idea to put the rainbows on the vehicles in the first place. Is someone panicking, with visual or cognitive impairment, at night, going to instantly recognise it?
A sticker isn’t going to hide a full on cop car. Like imagine you’re in an emergency, you see a black and white car that has all the markings of a cop car, but it has a rainbow sticker, are you going to ignore it because of a 2x3 sticker?
Your point is stupid and invalid.
Well, seeing as police vehicles aren’t black and white……
And if you took a look at the picture, it replaces the battenberg on the back half of the van, with a logo that highlights the letters BT, so it looks a bit like a telecoms van.
Police vehicles are almost exclusively black and white.
They are almost exclusively white or silver, with blue and yellow battenberg on each side, and red and yellow warning chevron on the back. The high-conspicuity police livery was developed by the police R&D labs in the 1990s and became standard across Britain from around 2004.
I can’t think of a force that used black and white rather than light blue and white. Maybe there were some long ago.
In the US, they are almost all black and white, occasionally with green for sheriffs and highway patrol.
This is the unitedkingdom community
Something about stupid and invalid points?
So you already have color on your police cars, but a small rainbow sticker makes them unrecognizable? I don’t think you’re making the point you think you are.
its almost like the police needs to be neutral.
Are you fucking dense?
do you know what your saying.
Yes: The police should support human rights. It’s pretty plain and simple.
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