Stephen Ireland, photo by Surrey Police.
Stephen Ireland came to my attention due to his harassment of British author J K Rowling, she of the Harry Potter series fame. Miss Rowling is very much a leftist, and a supporter of homosexuals. She even declared Albus Dumbledore, the fictitious headmaster of the fictitious Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in her series to be homosexual, even though that had never been written or implied in the actual series.
Yes, I’ve read all of the Harry Potter series!
But that wasn’t good enough for some on the left, because she also realized that, while she thoroughly supported homosexuals, the idea that people could actually change their sex was too cockamamie for even an author writing about magic spells to be believed. She was labeled a TERF, Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist, a term which was originally a politically neutral description, but which has become enough of a pejorative that the Associated Press Stylebook notified writers on Twitter — I refuse to call it 𝕏 — that TERF, along with “gender-critical” should not be used.
As we have noted previously, bad causes attract bad people, which naturally includes Mr Iraland. From The British Broadcasting Company:
Pride group founder jailed for rape of boy, 12
