Trans women drop-kicked and stamped on man, 19, outside Tube station

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[–]MarkTwainiac 41 insightful - 1 fun41 insightful - 0 fun42 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I think the headline here is that these furiously violent men all got off with hardly a slap on their wrists for a committing a brutal physical gang attack on a lone man who verbally insulted them. The judge suggested that the attack was essentially justified coz the victim made remarks that were transphobic and racist.

Donning a frock, wig, makeup and a trans identity really is the new "get out of jail free" card for violent male thugs.

Women are subjected to the most vile verbal abuse out in public all the time. Does this judge think we should be allowed to drop kick and kerb stomp all the men who harass and insult us?

[–]artetolife 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

FWIW those sentences aren't uncommonly lenient. They were wise to take their shoes off! Those are classed as weapons for the purpose of sentencing so it takes it down a notch.

[–]MarkTwainiac 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I know they aren't unusually lenient from a UK or European perspective. Lots of men in those countries routinely get off pretty much scot-free even when convicted of major crimes.

Still, it seems worth noting that the punishments meted out to the men who committed this violent assault got more lenient sentences than the autistic male youth who was prosecuted and convicted for allegedly saying "are you a girl or a boy?" within earshot of a TIF police officer who was in the midst of "transitioning."

[–]artetolife 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Still, it seems worth noting that the punishments meted out to the men who committed this violent assault got more lenient sentences than the autistic male youth who was prosecuted and convicted for allegedly saying "are you a girl or a boy?" within earshot of a TIF police officer who was in the midst of "transitioning."

He got a 12 week curfew and a fine. Apart from the one who got a conditional discharge the other sentences were double that, although curfew orders seem like a bit of a useless punishment at the moment. There could also be post-sentence supervision requirements which the media never mentions because nobody understands what they are, but they're not nothing.

[–]MarkTwainiac 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He got a 12 week curfew and a fine.

When I said he got a worse punishment I meant that he got a fine in addition to the curfew. The fine was £590 or nearly $800 USD, pretty hefty for a 19-year old without parents or other family to support him who is employed as a carer.

Also, he got the 12 week curfew sentence before the UK considered any COVID-19 lockdown measures or restrictions. As you note, the guys in the other case were given curfews when restrictions limiting nighttime activities in the UK are already in place for the whole population and are expected to remain in place or become more strict in the coming months, and thus are essentially meaningless.

Moreover, the autistic teen was convicted of a "hate crime" and will have to live with that on his record. In the court of public opinion, he was slurred as a "yob" in newspaper reports, including The Daily Mail:

A teenage yob was today ordered to pay £200 compesnation to a transgender police officer - for shouting 'Is it a boy or is it a girl?' at him.

PCSO Connor Freel, 25, was 'upset and embarrassed' after the teenager shouted abuse while he was in uniform on street patrol duty.

Declan Armstrong, 19, was put under a nightime curfew and ordered to pay £590 - including the £200 compensation to the officer.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7943147/Teenage-yob-ordered-pay-compensation-transgender-police-officer-abuse.html

By contrast, the violent men in this recent case were described in court and the press not just as women, but women who in the eyes of the judge were provoked into committing assault and battery coz of transphobia, which the judge characterized as a particularly heinous kind of animus. They were not accused or convicted of committing a "hate crime" - they were treated as the victims of one.

The system bent over backwards to give the benefit of the doubt and special treatment to the full-grown adult men in dresses in the current case coz of their "trans" status and basically tried to minimize the violence they committed as a gang against a lone teenager. They're members of the new sacred caste who are seen as doing no or little wrong even when they together relentlessly beat the shite out of someone.

But the very same system did nothing to take into account that 19-year-old who was arrested, tried and convicted for saying something a police officer took offense at was autistic and by several criteria was himself a "vulnerable person" in UK parlance. Instead, he was castigated as a lowly and hateful "yob" who is guilty of "hate crime."