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29 Aug, 27 tweets, 12 min read
June 2019: Lesbians @LResisters protesting at Lancaster Pride got mobbed and chanted over



fairplayforwomen.com/pride/
Bravo said Stonewall Chair Jan Gooding
June 2019 - Lesbians at Edinburgh Pride

Placards ripped, bells rung and whistles painfully blown in their ears, juice bottle thrown
womansplaceuk.org/2019/06/23/les…
Another first hand account from @ForwomenScot
September 2019 - trans rights activists kicking screaming, banging on windows of @Womans_Place_UK at Labour Party conference fringe meeting dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7…
No answer from Labour

womansplaceuk.org/2020/02/15/no-…
March 2020: @LabWomenDec meeting in West London. Smoke bombs set up (near Grenfell Tower)

JK Rowling has received thousands of violent threats since speaking out on this issue
March 2021: Paris - queer activists throw eggs at women's rights protesters
June 2021 - TRAs attack lesbians at Paris pride
July 2021 - threatening signs at Pride London

August 2021 - gay man driven out of Pride Manchester for wearing @ALLIANCELGB hat and t-shirt
I don't know how to end this thread, except to say that I am scared and sad, but ever more resolute.

Even if institutions are captured at some levels, more and more ordinary people are standing up and speaking up.
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A clarification: Julie Bindel reported that she was verbally abused, lunged at and almost punched in the face, by a transwoman while leaving an Edinburgh Uni event

google.com/amp/s/www.scot…
The case was dealt with through a "conditional offer"(like a caution) which was accepted by @TownTattle
June 2021 Barcelona. Police good back trans rights activists from attacking feminists protesting peacefully
Picket line attack . International women's day 2018 ttps://womansplaceuk.org/footage-of-picket-line-attack/?amp&__twitter_impression=true
Germany
May 2021: Lesbian organisation's office in Bologna is attacked by trans activists.

adhocnews.it/arcilesbica-ac…
August 2019 Vancouver

vancouverisawesome.com/courier-archiv…
Vancouver November 2019

feministcurrent.com/2019/11/06/van…
An effigy of Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo hung in a tree in Spain

iseult.substack.com/p/execution-in…
April 2021: Australia Academic Dr Holly Lawford-Smith sets up website where women can share how women’s only spaces have been impacted by pro-transgender policies. Supporters are verbally abused and have water thrown at them at Melbourne Uni

msn.com/en-au/news/oth…
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16 Sep
The @fawcettsociety 's new code of conduct isquite pointed (and authoritarian)

Section 1 "women and girls in all their diversity" is code for gender id

Section IV suggests @ ing a Trustee could be grounds for expulsion

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Members have not been invited to vote on the new code of conduct which means that members must not disagree with the replacement of sex by gender.

And public debate will not be tolerated.
Obviously harassment is harassment, but being on Twitter is an invitation to be @'ed into conversations by strangers -- and being a Trustee or senior manager of an NGO seeking to influence policy is being a public figure.
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15 Sep
NCVO...... ....also NCVO
Charity bosses: if you want a regulator that is politically impartial and governs without fear or favour then act like it.

LGBAlliance were granted charitable status because they meet the criteria of charity law. Full stop.
Here are the two threads to compare and contrast

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12 Sep
Podcast interview between safeguarding lawyers and trans rights and surrogacy lawyers @Farrer_Co

farrer.co.uk/news-and-insig…

Safeguarding lawyers ask about "gender questioning children"

Trans rights lawyers respond about "trans children" 🤨
Robin White talks darkly about orgs that are "not supportive of trans children" raising safeguarding issues & other children's privacy

Says other children just have to get used to there being children in school using opposite sex facilities (but may be some balancing issues)
Dr. Bianca Jackson says that innocuous questions about what sex you are can be transphobic harassment.

Both talk about parents as "supportive" (i.e. gender affirming) or "unsupportive"
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4 Sep
Is this book "A practical guide to transgender law" just passing as a serious law book?

It makes big claims to distinguish between unfounded views of the current law and the "true state"...

amazon.co.uk/Practical-Guid…
As the foreword notes Robin Moira White has an obvious personal interest in laws and rules that would make it difficult for women to say no sharing single sex spaces with males

Nevertheless claim to have set out the law as it currently is, and not just wishful thinking....
Kate from South Uist thinks it is jolly good.

Who is Kate? 🤨
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29 Aug
A thread on the bullying, threatening and intimidating behaviour of trans rights activists towards gender dissidents

September 2017: Assault on Maria Maclachlan at Speakers Corner
Well worth reading Maria's account of the whole thing and what happened next peaktrans.org/when-vicious-e…
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21 Aug
From the Easy Reading version of the Welsh LGBTQ+ Action Plan consultation

- it is so unsafe to tell people they cannot trust their own eyes about who is a man and who is a woman.
Queer means..... ? (I still don't know)

And as for the plus...?
Here is the not easy reading version - it still doesn't make clear why people "wanting to reject specific labels" should need to be the business of the state.
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