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https://www.womenarehuman.com/autis...ficers-sex-autism-group-condemns-prosecution/
UK – Mold, North Wales. A disability charity has condemned the prosecution of a teenage boy with Asperger’s for asking if a transgender police officer “was a boy or a girl”. Declan Armstrong, 19, was convicted of using abusive or insulting words to cause harassment. According to Judge Roger Lowe, the public order offence was uplifted to medium-level due to its transphobic nature.
He was put under night-time curfew and ordered to pay £590, including £200 compensation to Police Community Support Officer Connor Freel, 25, who was born female but identifies as male. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) called the incident a ‘hate crime’. Edward Marsh of the CPS said: “Comments deliberately targeting a person in this way have no place in modern society.” Now disability rights group Action for Asperger’s has condemned the prosection and called for the courts to think again when dealing with people with disorders such as Autism and Asperger’s.
UK – Mold, North Wales. A disability charity has condemned the prosecution of a teenage boy with Asperger’s for asking if a transgender police officer “was a boy or a girl”. Declan Armstrong, 19, was convicted of using abusive or insulting words to cause harassment. According to Judge Roger Lowe, the public order offence was uplifted to medium-level due to its transphobic nature.
He was put under night-time curfew and ordered to pay £590, including £200 compensation to Police Community Support Officer Connor Freel, 25, who was born female but identifies as male. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) called the incident a ‘hate crime’. Edward Marsh of the CPS said: “Comments deliberately targeting a person in this way have no place in modern society.” Now disability rights group Action for Asperger’s has condemned the prosection and called for the courts to think again when dealing with people with disorders such as Autism and Asperger’s.