Cancelled artist who questioned puberty blockers takes legal action
from Christian Concern:
A Christian artist is taking legal action against a local council after being banned from her own exhibition and reported to the police for saying, while making a cup of tea, that it is harmful for children to try and change their sex.
The case comes after the NHS announced a ban on puberty blockers being prescribed for children.
Mrs Victoria Culf, 43, an artist for 20 years, feared a knock on the door and being arrested in front of her children after Watford Borough Council representatives told her the police were investigating her for her comments.
It transpired that after The Times approached the police to ask about the status of the ‘hate crime’ report, they were told that a ‘non-crime hate incident’ had been recorded against Mrs Culf’s name without her knowledge.
However, in light of Harry Miller’s High Court win against The College of Policing, which described the recording of ‘non-crime hate incidents’ as a ‘significant interference with the right to freedom of expression’, and therefore illegal, the police swiftly backtracked and said that Victoria’s comments had in fact not met the threshold of a ‘non-crime hate incident.’
This does, however, suggest that the police believe that there are comments that would meet the threshold and would be recorded against a member of the public’s name, without their knowledge, and despite the High Court ruling.
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