In what is said to be the first case of its kind, a man in Scotland appeared in court to have public order complaints he committed under two different gender identities and names heard on the same day.
Alan Morgan, 50, was sentenced to a 3-month restriction of liberty order in relation to four different public order complaints. In two of those complaints, he was designated as a man under his birth name, and for the other two, he was designated a woman under the name “Alannah.”
According to the Scottish Sun, two of the complaints stem from two incidents in 2021, and two occurred over the course of this year.
In February 2021, Morgan acted in a threatening or abusive manner on Dundee’s Happyhillock road, striking the ground and shouting obscenities. Under that same complaint, he was also found to have had a knife on his person, and had been uttering threats towards a specific person.
Months later, Morgan was also the subject of a complaint after acting in a threatening manner in Nethergate, Dundee, during which time he had been throwing pizza around the street, urinating in view of the public, and screaming obscenities.
Morgan has been involved in two similar incidents this year. In January, he was the subject of a complaint after acting in a threatening manner and making derogatory comments to attending police.
Months later in March, Morgan admitted to shouting, swearing, and making offensive remarks to police in the back of a vehicle and at a police building in Dundee. He also flashed police, showing his buttocks and genitals while in the lock-up.
Both 2021 incidents were committed under the name “Alannah,” while Morgan was identifying as a woman. Both incidents which occurred this year were registered under his birth name and sex. However, the January 2022 complaint has since been amended by the court to change Morgan’s name to “Alannah,” and switch his gender identity to “woman.”
During a hearing over the March flashing incident which took place earlier this year, Morgan’s solicitor had argued that the exposure was “not a sexual act” but “a demonstration” during an “argument over gender.”
Morgan narrowly avoided a jail term today while appearing at Dundee Sheriff’s Court, despite the Judge noting his crimes had met “the custodial threshold.” The court instead opted to hand Morgan a three-month restriction of liberty order with a curfew.
In most news reports on Morgan’s crimes, he was referred to by both masculine and feminine pronouns, alternating depending on whether the offenses being described were committed under his male or female personas.
The bizarre coverage has received ample mockery on social media, with netizens expressing both confusion and concern over the “interchangeable” nature of Morgan’s pronouns and identity.
Interchangeable pronouns in the same newspaper article🤪 Newsflash – he was still a he when he was in court “as a woman!”
— Jo Roseate #NoToSelfID🦖🏴🍒 (@Jo_Roseate) November 2, 2022
FFS!
“In the article this person is referred to as ‘he’ and ‘she’ if this doesn’t highlight the absolute batshit-craziness of this, I dunno what does,” Nellie Munro wrote in response to the Scottish Sun‘s article.
Other users took issue with the court’s sentencing, finding it too lenient for the laundry list of offenses Morgan had committed.
“Why would the court give someone so obviously unhinged and unpredictable the benefit of the doubt by allowing them to retain their liberty? The behavior met the threshold for custodial – that’s exactly where he belongs,” @Coquelicotworld wrote.
Scotland has recently become a hotbed of debate on issues of gender identity as the government has proposed a reform to loosen up existing self-identification laws.
The suggested changes to the Gender Recognition Act include removing the current requirement for an individual to have a diagnosis of gender dysphoria prior to being able to change the sex on their birth certificate. No medical reports would be required prior to applying for a change, and the period in which applicants need to have lived as their “chosen gender” would be cut from two years to just three months.
More controversially, the proposed reform would drop the minimum age requirement from 18 to 16.
The reform bill is currently at its second stage of review.
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