A Catholic mother who was reported to police after she called a transgender woman 'he' in a tweet has spoken of her fear she would become a legal test case.
Caroline Farrow was told she was under investigation for using the wrong pronoun for charity chief Susie Green's 23-year-old daughter, who had gender reassignment surgery in Thailand at the age of 16. Surrey Police later dropped the probe.
Mrs Farrow today told Good Morning Britain of her shock after police came to her home. 'I was terrified, I was shaking, I couldn't breathe, the room was spinning,' she said. 'I thought they would try and make a test case out of me.'
Jackie Green (right) had a sex change after turning 16. She is the daughter of Susie Green (left) who appeared on Good Morning Britain alongside Caroline Farrow last year
Jackie (seen on the right with Susie) had gender reassignment surgery in Thailand on her 16th birthday because in the UK the minimum age limit is 18
Miss Farrow, a writer for Catholic journals, took issue with Miss Green, who is chief executive of the transgender children's charity Mermaids, after the pair clashed on a previous episode of Good Morning Britain.
The campaigner's transgender daughter Jackie Green was born Jack before becoming one of the youngest people in the world to undergo sex-change surgery.
Mrs Farrow's tweets, posted in October, referred to Jackie as 'him' and said Miss Green's charity was promoting child abuse. Mrs Farrow was subsequently told by a police officer the posts risked being an offence under the Malicious Communications Act.
But today she denied any malicious intent, telling Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid: 'I wasn't targeting Susie Green's child. I made those tweets ten days after the original debate and I hadn't tagged her in. I wasn't tweeting at her, I was tweeting about her.
'Susie Green is a public figure who runs a lobby group which has access to Westminster and influences public policy in this country.
'If Susie Green was a private individual I would not have said a word. But she uses her child as advocacy for her lobby position.'
When challenged about whether she is being too personal and hurtful in her views, Mrs Farrow said: 'The thing is, the truth is the truth...on this issue we need to tell the truth. It's not about [being hurtful].'
Mrs Farrow's tweets, posted in October, referred to Jackie as 'him' and said Miss Green's charity was promoting child abuse
The case sparked a row over whether police should be spending time examining tweets rather than pumping more resources into tackling violence and theft.
Mrs Farrow wrote in October: 'What Susie Green did to her own son is illegal. She mutilated him by having him castrated and rendered sterile while he was a child
'Susie Green may feel that giving her son off label illegal medication aged 11 and drastic surgery was the path of least harm in her circumstances but she shouldn't project and impose it on other vulnerable kids as best practice.
'But as Posie Parker found out when you criticise Susie Green for castrating her 16-year-old son, she writes pages of cant (sic) describing her journey and reporting you to the police for hurting her feelings.
'I think it's time everyone called out Susie Green and Mermaids policy out for what it is. Child abuse.'
Mrs Farrow today told Good Morning Britain of her shock after police came to her home. 'I was terrified, I was shaking,' she said
Miss Green (left) and Mrs Farrow appearing on GMB on September 25. Her tweets were posted 10 days after
Jackie Green (pictured above) appeared on This Morning in 2012 to discuss her place at the Miss England finals
A spokesman for the Mermaid Trust last night said Jackie was 'deeply upset' by Mrs Farrow's comments by the reference to her as being mutilated, castrated and sterilised.
He said: 'These statements are, and are intended to be, as hurtful as possible. Jackie is distressed at the assertion that this was something that was somehow done 'to her'.
'The only people deliberately doing anything 'to her' are the online trolls using the most abusive language about her. She would like the online abuse to stop.
'By 16, she had undertaken extensive psychological assessment from independent experts before she was cleared for, and undertook, gender reassignment surgery. Her competency and full knowledge of all the implications was clear.
Jackie (left) and her mother Susie (right) pictured at their home on Leeds shortly after Jackie had the operation
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