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Trans Extremist Gets Woman Charged With Hate Crime for Pic of Women’s Suffrage Ribbon

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Source: Women are Human

UK — Airdrie, Scotland. A 50-year-old mother-of-two has been charged with a hate crime after an extremist transgender advocate reported her to police for retweeting a photograph of a green, white and violet women’s suffrage ribbon.

Police Scotland confirmed that Marion Millar, an accountant, business owner and gender-critical feminist campaigner, was arrested. Ms Millar, who has since been released on bail, is accused of posting six tweets in 2019 that run afoul of the Communications Act 2003.

The women’s suffrage ribbon, which was tied to a chain-link fence in front of a tree outside the Glasgow studio where a BBC soap opera is shot, appears to be a central focus of the police investigation.

Women seeking suffrage in the UK used green, white and violet to stand for “Give Women the Vote,” and to represent royalty, freedom, purity and hope.

The complaint is rumored to have been filed by David Paisley, an aged 42, heavily muscled, tattooed actor who stars as Rory Murdoch on the Glasgow soap River City. There is no official confirmation that Mr Paisley filed the complaint.

The complainant purportedly told police that the bow of ribbons shared by Ms Millar represented a hangman’s noose, putting the complainant in fear of his life as a transgender advocate who is also a gay man.

The C-list entertainer tweeted that he has fled his home and is in hiding. He claimed that police have “put my home on rapid response,” and that he is in contact with a local victims and psychological support team.

Last year, Mr Paisley, a high-profile trans advocate, insisted that men who obtain a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) have the right to perform medical examinations on female rape victims who request a female forensic team, because GRC holders have “change[d] their legal sex so it aligns with their gender.”

Ms Millar may be sentenced to up to six months in prison if convicted on the hate crime charges.

To honor Ms Millar, artist Birdy Rose illustrated a graphic of a woman shouting defiantly while holding up green, white and purple women’s suffrage ribbons to the sky. The words “Woman: Adult Human Female” are written on the ribbons, and a banner with the words “Women Won’t Wheesht” graces the bottom of the illustration.

Transgender-identifying extremist Joss Prior posted an altered version of the artist’s illustration, in which the fist holding up the ribbon has been modified to an outstretched hand, making it appear that the woman is doing a Nazi salute. “They’re not even subtle about the Nazi symbolism any more [sic],” Mr Prior wrote in the tweet accompanying the altered illustration.

The artist said she is “absolutely fuming” about the altered graphic.

Mr Prior had posted a YouTube video in February titled, “Trans woman in womens [sic] spaces.” The video shows the transgender advocate dancing in a women’s restroom to mock women’s concerns about sharing sex-specific facilities with male individuals: “I was waiting for the toilet and had a dance to show the nefarious interests trans women have for using the womens [sic] toilets,” the video description reads.

After her arrest, Ms Millar briefly locked down her Twitter account, a measure she said was to stave off continued abuse. She has since made the account publicly visible again.

Following complaints from transgender activists, a GoFundMe campaign created to raise funding to cover Ms Millar’s legal expenses was shut down and all donations refunded to Ms Millar’s supporters. The campaign had raised £14k in 3 hours.

Ms Millar later began accepting donations through Paypal, but the account was locked for suspicious activity, presumably because the account was mass-reported.

Beltrami & Co, a criminal defense law firm, will organize a crowdfunding for Ms Millar’s legal expenses “in coming weeks,” she announced in a tweet yesterday.

“The past few weeks have been a nightmare for Marion and her family and it seems there is no end in sight,” a For Women Scotland spokeswoman said. “Sadly, in Scotland, it seems both free speech and women’s rights are under attack.”

On Thursday, Ms Millar was subjected to a two-hour interview with law enforcement at a Coatbridge police station. Her supporters held placards and wore shirts with the slogan, “Women won’t wheesht” (‘wheesht’ is Scottish venacular meaning ‘shut up’, ‘be quiet’ or ‘hush’), and tied violet, green and white ribbons to nearby posts. Some wore fake mustaches.

Many are showing support of Ms Millar on social media under the hashtag #WomenWontWheesht, and using an image of women’s suffrage ribbons for an avatar or primary profile picture.

Ms Millar is expected to appear at Glasgow sheriff court next month.

She is not the first person in the UK to face legal prosecution for displaying defiance to gender identity ideology on social media.

Katie Scottow of Hertfordshire, England was convicted of the offense of Persistently Making Use Of A Public Communications Network To Cause Annoyance, Inconvenience, And Anxiety following 2018 tweets in which she used male pronouns to refer to transgender-identifying advocate Stephanie Hayden, and called the advocate a “pig in a wig.” Ms Scottow was fined £1,000 and handed a two-year conditional discharge. She successfully appealed the conviction in December.

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