I go outside for a few hours and all hell breaks loose.

A disgraced transgender police officer is believed to have reported gender-critic Father Ted creator Graham Linehan to the police over his social media posts.

Former Pc Lynsay Watson, who was born Alex Horwood, was sacked by Leicestershire Police for gross misconduct in 2023 after allegedly harassing a free speech campaigner and critic of gender ideology.

An anonymous social media account, believed to be linked to Watson, boasted in April this year of reporting Linehan, the Father Ted writer and gender sceptic, to the police over several social media posts he made about transgender issues. The account encouraged other transgender activists to do the same.

Watson has a well-documented history of calling on police forces to pursue criminal investigations of campaigners who are sceptical of the belief that self-identification, and not biological sex, determines what a man or woman is.

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Watson was sacked by Leicestershire Police after being found guilty by a misconduct hearing of sending former police officer Harry Miller more than 1,200 messages over an 18-month period, branding him a “Nazi”, a “bigot” and a “wife-beater”.

I know, we know all that, but I for one did not know the next bit.

Helen Joyce, a writer and women’s rights campaigner, said she was also reported to the authorities and now has a police investigation for “harassment” on her record.

The best-selling author of Trans, a book critical of gender ideology, she took part in a panel discussion with transgender activist Freda Wallace in 2023. Afterwards, she made several social media posts about the experience and Wallace’s “exhibitionism”.

The scare-quoted exhibitionism was very real. He sat in a very short skirt and crossed his legs. It was an exhibition.

Unbeknown to Joyce at the time, these Twitter posts were reported to the police. Court documents stated that Watson was behind these reports.

Joyce’s record shows she was initially looked into over a potential “non-crime hate incident” relating to “malicious communications”, but officers soon began investigating the possibility of “harassment”.

This is recorded against her name and could show on an advanced DBS check, despite police taking no further action against the author.

So how fucking outrageous is that?

She was unaware of this police activity until earlier this year, when Watson asked the High Court to review the police decision not to pursue a criminal investigation into Joyce’s social media posts.

Men ruining women’s lives for rejecting the lie that particular men are women.