Feminist campaigner Maya Forstater has hit out at聽CPS guidelines stating parents could be charged with domestic abuse for refusing to pay for their child's transgender treatment or not using their preferred pronoun.聽
Updated legal guidance for prosecutors that was quietly published by the Crown Prosecution service last year includes a list of examples of abuse of 'trans and non-binary victims'.聽
One is 'withholding money for transitioning', while another is 'refusing to use their preferred name or pronoun.'聽
A third adds: 'Body shaming or criticising the victim for not being 'a real man/woman' if they have not undergone reassignment surgery.'聽
The guidance could conceivably apply to wives 'abusing' their transgender husbands or vice versa, or even children referring to their parents as 'mum' or 'dad' if they have transitioned.聽
Ms Forstater, who last week won more than 拢100,000 in compensation from a think-tank that dropped her over her view that people cannot change their biological sex claimed the new guidelines showed how the CPS has been 'ideologically captured'.
She told MailOnline: 'Parents of children who identify as transgender should not be seen as abusers if they do not affirm their child as being 'born in the wrong body'.'
Yesterday an Employment Tribunal ordered that Ms Forstater (pictured), 49, should be paid a total of 拢106,404 by her former employer, including 拢27,000 for injury to feelings and 拢64,000 for loss of earnings
Updated legal guidance for prosecutors that was quietly published by the Crown Prosecution service last year includes a list of examples of abuse of 'trans and non-binary victims'.聽One is 'withholding money for transitioning', while another is 'refusing to use their preferred name or pronoun.' A third adds: 'Body shaming or criticising the victim for not being 'a real man/woman' if they have not undergone reassignment surgery.'
Last week, Ms Forstater won more than聽拢100,000 in compensation from a think-tank that dropped her over her view that people cannot change their biological sex. |