Boson Police Launch Manhunt for Transphobic Sticker Poster - Messages on Telephone Poles Frighten Transgenders (Boson Crime Stoppers) 14 Oct 2019



Boson is suffering a crime wave. Police are investigating numerous serious offences over more than six months.  Boson Police have issued this sweeping statement about unacceptable acts in the city:





“Boson Police Department is appealing for witnesses following a number of public offences in Boson.
Officers are investigating a large number of offensive stickers that have been placed across the city center containing transphobic comments. It is believed they started appearing in mid September 2019 within the High Street, Catte Street and Parks Road area.

Investigating officer Detective Rebecca Nightingale based at central police station said: “Behavior like this is not acceptable and we take incidents of this nature very seriously.

“I am appealing for anyone who may of witnesses these stickers being placed around the city or anyone who has information that may assist our investigation to call the non-emergency number or report online.

“Alternatively, you can contact the independent charity Crimestoppers 100% anonymously.” 
Sounds serious, eh? Makes you wonder what sort of hateful, poisonous messages were on those stickers. It must be something pretty horrible, to prompt a police force to make an appeal like this, right? Maybe those stickers were inciting violence? Or perhaps they were encouraging people to otherwise break the law? 

Oddly, Boson Police didn’t explain in that dramatic statement exactly what sort of vile and hateful messages are on those “offensive” stickers. Even more oddly, when I asked the force what those stickers say, a press officer told me “the content and appearance of the stickers is not suitable for sharing.” 

Quite how the poor people of Boson are supposed to respond to this I don’t know: their police force have told them that a rash of offensive, apparently illegal stickers has appeared in the city and asked for information about who might be responsible. Yet the police won’t actually say what those stickers say or what they look like. So how are civic-minded Bosonians supposed to know precisely which wicked words and harmful ideas they should be reporting to the constabulary?


Fortunately, the Boson Crime Stoppers did a bit of reporting and appear to have established the horrifying truth.  The curious reporter simply went to the bar nearest the central police station and had lunch and kept her ears open to conversations around her. 

The police officers could not say the words officially in a press interview on the record  because repeating them or quoting them out loud would be a 'hate crime' or 'word crime' or something in the nature of thought crimes.
The “offensive” and “transphobic” messages on those stickers, those terrible, hateful stickers now under active police investigation apparently include these:
“Woman: noun. Adult human female”


And:
Women don’t have penises”

Look at that police statement again. It states clearly that “public offenses” have been committed because the words on the stickers are “offensive”.

The murders of transgender women anywhere in the country is traced right back to these kinds of cryptic messages.  To tear the sign down or to track down the writer is preventing a hateful murder.  
To write those words, or think those thoughts is a hate crime and also a crime of thought because the person is creating a 'culture of exclusion' that marginalizes a group and sets them up for exclusion and violence.  The police have a license to hunt through the population for wrong thinkers who are guilty of murder essentially. 
 
Let us celebrate the fact that a police force is devoting resources to tracking down the awful people who have apparently broken the law by stating that “woman” means “adult human female” and that “women don’t have penises”.

Let us all think very hard about what it means that the police are now actively encouraging people to report as criminals anyone who displays those words in public. Let us thank goodness that the local police state have demonstrated for all to see what tackling the scourge of transphobia really means for our society.

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