Do the police think ‘lesbian’ is a term of abuse?

Reading that a 16-year-old autistic girl had been dragged from her home by seven cops after reportedly saying a female officer looked like ‘a lesbian like nana’, I had to check that we weren’t back in the 1970s of my girlhood when ‘lezzer’ was the worst thing you could call a woman.

Yet here are the coppers going all Life on Mars on some poor neuro-divergent kiddy – who also suffers from spinal disability scoliosis – in her Leeds home after (irony of ironies) she was driven home by police officers attending a gay pride celebration. So far, so woke – but things turned non-inclusive when the young person made an apparently harmless comparison to her grandmother. She was then removed by aforesaid seven West Yorkshire police officers in the early hours, having been arrested on suspicion of ‘homophobic public order offence’ – in her own home, in front of her own mother, who begged the police to leave her alone, pleading ‘you’re going to remove her for what? She said the word lesbian? Her nana is a lesbian, she’s married to a woman.