autistic teenager's hate-crime of questioning transgender PC

In February 2020 in Mold, North Wales, Declan Armstrong, 19, was convicted of using abusive or insulting words to cause harassment. He had asked if a transgender police officer “was a boy or a girl”. See www.womenarehuman.com/autistic-teen-found-guilty-of-hate-crime-for-asking-police-officers-sex-autism-group-condemns-prosecution