An English police force has apologised for telling people not to make “hateful comments” about a transgender sex offender’s gender identity after the home secretary told them to “focus on catching criminals not policing pronouns.”
On Tuesday, Sussex Police posted on Twitter a news piece with the headline “Woman convicted of historic offences against children in Sussex” about Sally Ann Dixon.
Male-born Dixon, who identifies as a woman, was recently jailed for 20 years for sexually abusing seven children aged between 6 and 15. At the time of the offences, Dixon was called John Stephen Dixon.
Writing about the seriousness of his crimes, Detective Constable Amy Pooley of the Sussex Police Complex Abuse Unit said, “Dixon came to know these vulnerable young children successively through family connections, and used that trusted access to systematically abuse each of them for sexual gratification, in some cases for several months at a time.”…