Threatened with a £2,500 fine, pensioner who put gender critical posters on her own door
A PENSIONER has been threatened with a hefty fine by council bureaucrats over gender- critical posters she fixed to her front door.
Una- Jane Winfield, 68, was handed a Community Protection Notice (CPN) after complaints she was displaying ‘transphobic’ and ‘graphic’ posters.
She faces prosecution and a £2,500 fine by Labour-run Hammersmith and Fulham Council over the small images and letters on the entrance to her west London home.
The posters include an A4 photograph of a women with the scars from breast removal surgery, similar to images which have been used in mainstream advertising campaigns. It is alongside an advert for the book Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality by Helen Joyce.
The door also has an image from documentary film Adult Human Female and an anonymous handwritten letter supporting Ms Winfield’s gender-critical views.
She received the first official warning last March. The council later issued a CPN, dubbed a ‘busybody Asbo’, ordering her to remove the posters, which she refused to do.
The warning was withdrawn six months later only for her to receive a second order in August, again followed by a CPN.
Ms Winfield said she believed she was singled out in what constituted a political attack for supporting women’s rights. She added: ‘The police came to have a look at my door on two separate occasions.
’Thankfully they understood that expression of gender-critical views is protected under the law. But the council has ignored the police.
‘In a letter I was told my “persistent and continuing conduct” was having a “detrimental effect on the public and the LGBT community”. I’ve become pretty well-known for my campaigning and have never had an issue with the council until now.
‘From 2012 to 2019 I had posters up trying to save Charing Cross Hospital. I’ve also pinned up messages objecting to local planning applications. The complaints about this display are clearly political.
‘The poster is a very powerful image of girls whose bodies have been irreversibly changed by having surgery to remove their breasts.
‘At some point, they have been told this would somehow change their sex. That logic doesn’t bear scrutiny, such a change is impossible.’
Ms Winfield said she felt ‘a duty to speak’ out on the debate around trans rights and women’s rights but the council had attempted to gag her from expressing her opinions.
Hammersmith and Fulham Council has previously boasted of plans to be ‘the most inclusive borough in the country’.
The authority’s equality, diversity and inclusion policy states it measures performance using Stonewall’s Workplace Index. Stonewall has been accused of using its rankings to lobby for trans rights, rewarding companies with higher ratings.
Ms Winfield claimed the council had set a double standard and inclusivity drives risked marginalising women and those who believed in biological sex.
She added: ‘I’ve had around a dozen people knocking on my door to chat about the issues and most have been in agreement with me.’
Ms Winfield is challenging the latest CPN in court later this month.
A Hammersmith and Fulham Council spokesman said: ‘ We have received eight complaints about these provocative and graphic posters featuring nudity prominently displayed on a very busy public section of walkway in plain view.
‘Despite our requests, the resident has refused to remove them and has instead taken this issue to court.’
‘I have a duty to speak out’