Motivation open to question

Sir, – Purporting to speak on behalf of Scotland, Police Scotland accuse “transphobes” and “homophobes” of spreading “hate” and use their allegedly scarce resources to emblazon bus shelters with this message.

If the police wish to inform people that certain behaviours are criminal, that’s fair enough, but they need to focus on the criminal behaviour without wading incompetently into politicised philosophical questions.

My personal views are that it is not possible to change sex and divorcing gender from biological sex is unhelpful.

Also, I do not believe that engaging in homosexual sexual activity is a positive choice.

Those views are routinely labelled as “transphobic” and “homophobic” in our society.

Yet I strive not to “hate” anyone and wouldn’t dream of engaging in any aggressive behaviour. So there’s the problem. Police Scotland endorse the “phobia” appellation, and link it with hatred and criminal aggression.

The police should not adopt derogatory terms concocted by one side of a perfectly valid public debate.

What are Police Scotland really doing here?

Fighting crime, or just obeying their political masters by being so excruciatingly on-message? Richard Lucas. Leader of the Scottish Family Party,

272 Bath Street, Glasgow.