Labour party councillor calls trangender tory councillor a " man "

rather the state than a mob....

trans-phobic bullying is the same as racism
but so now you've gone form thought crime to 'he should be allowed to express his views'
Should a person be allowed to stand on the side of the road shouting 'n igger' at black people passing by?

That isn't, and shouldn't be, illegal. Black people can do it, so others must be allowed to as well, as long as there is no incitement involved, of course.

then I'll have to disagree
as does the law....................

Can we remember that even without hate crime laws, people can still be arrested for harassment, incitement to violence, assault, public order offences, and many other kinds of unacceptable behavior regardless of the motivation. Standing on a roadside and shouting n***** at passing black people would obviously fall under public order offences, which include threatening and intimidating behaviour and carry a sentence of up to two years in prison.

Misgendering doesn't convey the same sense of subhumanism, hate and fear that the N word can. The latter has next to zero risk of being used by someone who isn't truly hateful and intentionally trying to intimidate, which is why we legitimately respond strongly when it is used.

Does being a dick warrant the police being called?

Don't worry. The police aren't treating this criminally (they have more sense than some people on this thread).
They are using restorative justice i.e mediation. They get the community bobby to sit them both down and say stuff like, "Consider each others feelings".

No, I don't think so. But she has every right to be angry and upset. If he had used slurs and blatantly transphobic language when talking about her, then I think it'd be right to involve the police. But this incident I feel should still be dealt with severely in the form of making it CLEAR that what he did to that woman is wrong.

Really? Because I don't. I think there is a distinction as people have alredy pointed out between free speech and harassment. But do you seriously think the police should get involved because someone says a bad word, or a word the other person doesn't like?**

He is a man, everyone actually knows he is a man. Even the people who say he is a woman and passionately argue for it don't really believe it and are lying to themselves. You cannot change reality and saying something enough times doesn't make it true. You can "identify" as whatever you like but but don't expect people not to call you out on your mental illness. The fact the people want to use state violence to enforce this retardation is so woefully pathetic. Where is the dignity? Where is the truth? We live in a sick world of lies. It's all so repulsive and suffocating.

I think if a purposeful hate crime and had taken place in which he was openly transphobic and made the woman feel unsafe, there would be cause to involve the police. In this instance, I don't think there's a need to. But he is still in the wrong.

You may believe that he is in the wrong on a moral level, and sure his party should be free to discipline him, or kick him out of the party for this, the electorate are perfectly within their rights to decide not to vote for him for this, they are within their rights to criticise him etc. But police involvement here, or any attempt to try and fashion this sort of thing into a crime is sinister and wrong.

It wasn't accidental

the councillor has never know her as a male so there was simply no need other than to be offensive.

But surely he might have just made a pronoun mistake?

So the law allows the term 'N1gger' to be used depending on context.

An act does not make a person guilty, unless the mind is guilty. This allows, thankfully, for intelligent discretion in sentencing.