I don't care for the purpose of my argument no. The stickers should not be criminalised and the police are mistaken. If the stickers are not offensive (and I have transwomen in my timeline arguing strongly that they are offended) the issue I wished to address doesn't arise.
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Replying to @SpinningHugo @AmandaGosling3
(I no this doesn't matter for your conclusion) but aren't you conflating 'considered offensive by some people' with 'morally wrong'. I mean some people consider this offensive. But is it morally wrong?pic.twitter.com/rvqAdyTcru
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Replying to @MForstater @SpinningHugo
There are three slightly different things : meaning to offend, offensive and offending. I guess the stickers (and in a meta way
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Hugo also misses the point that many women find the 'Trans women are women, get over it' stickers offensive, and done for no good reason.
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Again, I'm not sure I do miss that point. I don't think that merits criminalisation either.
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Replying to @SpinningHugo @AmandaGosling3
But do you view it a "very bad way to behave" for someone to use this sticker or wear this t-shirt?pic.twitter.com/LTHYrYVA4Q
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About half your interesting thread was devoted to how the stickers are immoral, wrong, offensive, a bad way to behave etc - though not criminal. My point is that they are none of those things. They are part of an important, and highly moral, political campaign
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Just not my concern, or indeed expertise. My interest is in the proper scope of the criminal law, and whether the police are behaving correctly.
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Hugo you're disavowing the first half, at least, of your own thread! You spent tweet after tweet saying 'these stickers were nasty, horrible, intended to offend, etc' and only then said BUT they shouldn't be illegal. I'm disagreeing with what you said yourself.
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I'm afraid I think that mischaracterises what I said. I did not send "tweet after tweet saying 'these stickers were nasty, horrible, intended to offend, etc", as anyone looking up through what I posted can see.
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See your tweets 5/, 6/ and 7/ ending with the conclusion "Is posting such offensive messages a good way to behave?" the answer is no. It is a very bad way to behave, and the people doing it should stop doing so" 
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Replying to @MForstater @AmandaGosling3
Again, although my argument (which is about criminalisation) does not depend upon it, I do think that there is a difference between expressing a gender critical position inoffensively, and putting up stickers in town saying "women don't have penises", especially in context.
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Given (a) the obvious offence that would be caused (and if you think there is none, see my replies) and (b) that a gender critical position could have been expressed in a way so as not to give offence I think it was the wrong thing to do
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