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Police called after passenger claimed taxi driver 'dragged them across the street'

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/li ... d-16174329

The driver denies gender identity discrimination and says he was protecting his car after Nardia kicked it


Image: Liverpool Echo

A barber claims they were 'dragged across the pavement' by a taxi driver for 'not looking like a girl'.

Nards Allen-Gibson, 20, works as a barber in Southport, and identifies as gender fluid - preferring to be called 'they' instead of 'she'.

They claim they booked a taxi from work at around 3.30pm on Saturday, April 20 using local private hire firm All White.

A company spokesperson disputed Nards' version of events and police confirmed a counter-allegation had been made.

The booking was made on an app using the name Nardia - and they had the driver's registration details sent over by text.


Image: Liverpool Echo

Speaking to the ECHO, Nards said: "I got the text saying it was outside so I walked up to the taxi, got in and the taxi driver was rude to me and looked at me funny.

"The driver got out, then he asked these people on the pavement if their bags were going in the boot and they said they weren't with me.

"Then he got in the taxi and started giving me loads of attitude - the tone of his voice was aggressive. He said 'this taxi isn't for you, mate' and I said 'I've booked it on my phone'.

"He said 'I don't care what you've got. Get out. It's not for you'. I got out and he was still being aggressive towards me.

"I said it was booked on my phone, I had the registration on a text. He thought it wasn't for me because the name on the booking system is Nardia. That's a girl's name and I don't look like a girl. That's what I'm assuming."

Nards claims that another group of people who were stood nearby waiting for a taxi then got into the private hire booked on her account.

The booking was linked up to their bank account - and they admitted kicking the car as the driver started to pull away with different passengers inside.

Nards said: "He called me gay when I said it was booked on my card. As he was driving off I kicked his wheel arch and then he stopped, got out and said you won't be doing that again.

"He grabbed me around the throat, dragged me across the pavement, dropped me to the floor and then I think he realised that I was a female.

"I had a bag on and it was across my chest so when he was pushing me back it must have gone between my chest to show. I did have a tight top on, you could see I was born female and had a female features.

"People assume that I'm a gay boy because I look like a boy. He did call me gay."

However, when the ECHO phoned All White, a spokesperson for the private hire firm disputed Nards' version of events.

Asking not to be named in the article, the member of staff said the driver declined to take Nards and denied any discrimination based on gender identity.

Nards admits the driver did not explicitly say that the booking was not for them because it was made under a 'girl's name'.

However, they felt the driver's remark that the car 'wasn't for them' suggested he thought it was for a girl.

He said: "The lady started causing damage to the driver's car by kicking it. The driver got out and to protect his property did get hold of her. Didn't throw her to the ground. He was protecting his property."

The spokesman for All White added that the company would 'take on board' whatever Merseyside Police advise and 'take appropriate action'.

He added: "We have always assisted police in every case. We have spoken to the driver and his version of events doesn't point to this.

"We can't turn around and say he shouldn't defend himself or his property. He still has the right to refuse the person and defend himself. We will definitely take appropriate action if required."

Merseyside Police confirmed they received a report of an altercation on Lord Street on Saturday, April 20 - however, a counter accusation has also been made and officers are investigating.

In a statement shared with the ECHO, a spokesman for the force said: "Merseyside Police can confirm officers received a report of assault on Lord Street, Southport on Saturday, 20 April.

"Officers are working to piece together the full details of the incident but received an initial report at around 3.30pm of a 20-year-old woman being assaulted on Lord Street, Southport.

"Enquiries are at an early stage and officers are examining CCTV from the area and speaking with witnesses to establish what has gone on."

First paragraph refers to a 'group of people', then next paragraph says 'they' kicked the car. Assumed that meant the group of people kicked the car, but of course 'they' is actually good old Nards.

Whole article is like that though. 'They' want to be 'gender fluid' and look like a bloke when it suits, but the driver should have realised that 'they' were a female when he started pushing 'they' around (allegedly).

And 'they' wonder why people get confused

surely the driver had a name for the booking which would correlate to the correct passengers ?

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Welcome to 2019.

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The left as it's now known.

Or a Dickhead as was always known!

Couldn't help recalling the article above when reading this earlier. I mean, imagine getting into a dispute with 'Nards' above, then appearing before the likes of this councillor on a licensing committee


The misgendered councillor: a very modern farce

https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/2 ... ern-farce/

A council meeting in Newham has laid bare the nonsense of nonbinary.

If you want to get a sense of the entitlement of the trans movement, then look no further than the farce that unfolded at a council meeting last night in Newham, east London.

Newham’s Green Party leader, Danny Keeling, stormed out of the meeting in a huff. He was supposed to be leading the opposition to the local Labour council’s budget, but his mind was apparently distracted by far more serious matters: two Labour councillors repeatedly referred to him using ‘he / him’ pronouns, and he identifies as a ‘they / them’.

According to the trans movement, there are few offences more vile than the failure to use a person’s preferred pronouns. This act of ‘misgendering’ is viewed as a direct assault on a trans or nonbinary person’s chosen identity and sense of themselves. And so it invariably invites a hostile response.

After he fled the meeting, Keeling tweeted to accuse the two councillors, council chairman Winston Vaughan and finance lead Zulfiqar Ali, of ‘discrimination’ and ‘bullying’. A fellow Green councillor also chastised the chair for failing to make the meeting ‘a safe space for trans and nonbinary members’.

No one can really fault the two councillors here. Footage of the meeting makes it clear that they actually tried their best to respect Keeling’s identity. But, even as the council leader apologised, he couldn’t help but ‘misgender’ Keeling all over again.

‘I’ve been informed that I’ve been misrepresenting the councillor’, Vaughan said after Keeling walked out. ‘I should have said “them” rather than “he”. So I do apologise for that. And I think that’s what affected him, is it? Them, sorry. So my apologies to him. To them. Sorry.’

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you pick your own pronouns then you are going to be ‘misgendered’. Clearly, even people you might expect to be trans allies, including Labour Party politicians, are struggling with ‘they / them’ pronouns. To call a singular person ‘they’ simply does not compute with how most people use language and grammar, or how they see the world.

The councillors’ apologies won’t cut it, of course. The trans movement does not tolerate even minor slip-ups. Anyone who so much as accidentally refers to a they / them as a man, even when they are very obviously male, will be called out and punished.

Just look at the outrage that pours out on social media whenever nonbinary singer Sam Smith is called a ‘he’. Legions of trans allies have gone after anyone, from Richard Madeley to Noel Gallagher, who has dared to refer to Smith as a man.

No, the trans movement insists that we must always play by its language rules. It wants to force us all to go along with its fantasy that people can change sex, or not have a biological sex at all.

Still, if the Newham ‘misgendering’ incident is anything to go by, most people are struggling to keep up the pretence.

Fraser Myers is deputy editor at spiked and host of the spiked podcast. Follow him on Twitter: @FraserMyers

And despite flouncing out of the meeting when someone referred to him rather than they/them, he's still a 'he/him' on his own website

(Er, apologies for the misgendering there - I meant on 'their' own website, not 'his' own website )

could you get any more hypocritical than that

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Maybe his pronouns should be me.me.me.

Brings me back to singer Sam Smith on the One Show. He said he loves fishing and likes to be called a fisherthem.

World has gone f***ing mad.

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Most sane people will never pander to the whims of such people, if they don't like it tough, even if you used a gender neutral title like "They" it would still upset the wee snowflakes, they are out to create as much trouble as they can, tomorrow they'll go off in some other direction and will want to be something else they aint.

Nothing directly to do with the trade, but another councillor in trouble over this kind of stuff.

For anyone who doesn't follow these things, a TERF is a term of abuse for, basically, any women who thinks you can't have a cock and two balls and call yourself a woman

So, essentially, he's hollering abuse at the vast majority of women...

And he's chair of Lewes District Council licensing committee - surely someone demonstrating abuse and prejudice like this shouldn't be on a quasi-judicial body like a licensing committee

He's an ex-Green, though. Who'd have expected that?





Lewes MP Maria Caulfield slams Councillor Sean Macleod for tweet

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/2339881 ... eod-tweet/

An MP has slammed a councillor for a tweet which she described as “disgusting”and “misogynistic”.

Liberal Democrat councillor Sean Macleod, who represents Ouse Valley and Ringmer, caused uproar after responding to a tweet from Liberal Voice for Women, with the words: “F*** the terfs”.

Liberal Voice for Women says it is a group which aims to “protect and advance the rights and interests of women and girls from within the Liberal Democrats”.

They were discussing a policy which wants current Lib Dem quotas to tackle the "underrepresentation" of women on its committees to reflect the language used to define women by sex in the Equality Act 2010.

The councillor replied to a tweet from the group regarding the Lib Dem conference on Saturday.

The tweet from Liberal Voice for Women said: “A shameful day for our party. Our debate on women’s representation on internal committees was prevented from being heard.”

Cllr Macleod, who is diversity officer for Lewes Lib Dems, has apologised for his reply.

"I apologise for the language I used and immediately deleted my post,” he said.

"I understand the need for discussions on this topic to be respectful and will consider this when posting about my support of rights for trans people."

But Lewes MP Maria Caulfield has called for the whip to be removed from the councillor and branded his words “misogynistic”.

Ms Caulfield said she has been inundated with complaints from constituents about his language.

“I am disgusted at the comments from the Lewes Lib Dem diversity spokesperson Cllr Sean Macleod,” she said.

“I have contacted the leader of the Lewes Lib Dem council to remove the whip from him and to publicly condemn these comments which are misogynistic and an attack on women.

“I have now had complaints from constituents about his latest tweets showing misogynistic behaviour. Behaviour that is completely unacceptable, especially from someone with such power as a councillor.

“Given he is supposed to be the Lib Dem’s diversity officer, is it not time that the whip was withdrawn from him?

“Female constituents are very concerned that this is the view of Lewes District Council and that women are not allowed to stand up for the issues that matter to them.

“It is not good enough for Lewes Lib Dem’s to say he is tweeting in a personal capacity, as he is clearly tweeting as a councillor and in his bio states he is chair of licensing.”

A spokesman from Lewes Lib Dems said: "Sean has apologised and immediately deleted the post."

In other words like so many woke people they resort to shouting abuse at people who are NOT woke

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One of the many reasons why I don't do Twitter or Facebook.

Too many people pretending to be what they are not, and a mountain of utter nonsense.

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