TOBY YOUNG
A number of trans activists were seen holding violent and threatening signs at yesterday’s protest against the Supreme Court ruling on how a woman is defined in the Equality Act 2010, as demonstrators defaced seven statues in Parliament Square. The Mail has more.
While most held up signs fighting for trans rights, some activists were seen threatening violence with disturbing images of stabbed and hanged TERFs.
One sign at the protest in London’s Parliament Square showed an illustration of a hangman alongside the slogan “The only good TERF is a [hanged] TERF.”
Meanwhile, another sign showed an image of a man with a bloodied knife stuck in his eye, alongside the caption: “Are you a… transphobe? Why not try a… D.I.Y. LOBOTOMY.”
A third graphic sign read: “Trans women are women. Trans men are men. If you don’t like that, go s*** somewhere else.” Examples on the sign of where to do that included “on a pile of Harry Potter books” or “on the head of another TERF”.
The ruling has caused much controversy among various groups, with transgender activists left furious.
Thousands of outraged campaigners took to the streets of London yesterday to protest – waving flags and chanting throughout the afternoon.
Protestors targeted a number of statues in the capital. Notably, a statue of the suffragette Millicent Fawcett was defaced with a banner reading “F** rights”.
The Metropolitan Police said they were investigating the incidents as criminal damage after the statues were daubed with graffiti. MailOnline has contacted the force for an update.
Activists demanded “trans liberation” and “trans rights now”, with some waving flags and holding banners.
The Metropolitan Police today launched an appeal for information after seven statues were defaced during the day’s protest.
The statues of Jan Christian Smuts, Nelson Mandela, Sir Robert Peel, Benjamin Disraeli, Millicent Fawcett, Earl of Derby and Viscount Palmerston were all defaced.
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Leaked Messages Show Labour’s Fury at Transgender Supreme Court Ruling
RICHARD ELDRED
Leaked WhatsApp messages have exposed Labour ministers’ fury, and secret plans to flout a Supreme Court ruling on single-sex spaces. The Mail has the story.
The Government claimed to welcome the Supreme Court judgment – but the exchanges reveal the private fury on Sir Keir Starmer’s frontbench, with ministers planning to hold a meeting this week to “decide a way forwards” and “organise”.
In the messages, sent on Thursday evening, Culture Minister Sir Chris Bryant joined an attack on Baroness Falkner, chairwoman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), who earlier that day had said that the ruling – that a woman is defined by biological sex – clearly meant trans women could not use single-sex female facilities or compete in women’s sports.
When an MP said that Lady Falkner’s words were “pretty appalling”, Mr Bryant wrote: “Agreeed [sic].”
Last night, with the Government in turmoil, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch wrote to the Cabinet Secretary calling for an investigation into a statement by Equalities Minister Bridget Phillipson, who reacted to the judgment by saying: “We have always supported the protection of single sex spaces based on biological sex.”
In her letter to Sir Chris Wormald, who is also the Head of the Civil Service, Ms Badenoch argued that it could constitute a “false public statement” – because last June, Ms Phillipson declared that trans women with penises should be able to use single-sex spaces.
Writing on the WhatsApp group of LGBT+ Labour MPs, Home Office Minister Dame Angela Eagle said: “The ruling is not as catastrophic as it seems but the EHRC guidance might be and there are already signs that some public bodies are overreacting” – a possible reference to the British Transport Police’s interim announcement that strip searches of trans women would now be done by male officers, not female.
Dame Angela added that “we have to get on with doing the stuff we said we’d do in the manifesto”, which included a pledge to protect “the freedom for people to explore their sexual orientation and gender identity”.
Another MP on the WhatsApp group wrote that it was “sad to see some institutions choose to ignore the Supreme Court’s very strong line that trans people are protected by the Equality Act too”. Dame Angela replied: “They won’t be feeling that way now and we need to remember that and organise.”
MPs agreed with her suggestion that they should seek a meeting “ASAP with [the] relevant Equality Minister” after the Commons returns from Easter recess this week
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A trans-activist temper tantrum
Yesterday’s London demo was a carnival of misogyny and public urination.
JO BARTOSCH
Rejoice! For the They / Thems have risen. After being legally crucified by the Supreme Court last Wednesday, the trans faithful marched from Parliament Square in London yesterday in a display of devotion and defiance. It was a tantrum disguised as a protest over the court’s heresy – that the word ‘woman’ refers to a biological category, not a personal sense of gender.
Chanting ‘Fuck JK Rowling’ and ‘Fuck Wes Streeting’, the mob wailed over the apparent injustice of women having legally defined boundaries. Banners held included ‘The only good TERF is a dead one’; as legal commentator Dennis Kavanagh pointed out, there are currently people in prison for saying less.
Somewhere along the route, the statue of women’s rights campaigner Millicent Fawcett was defaced with ‘Fag Rights’. Ahead of the march, former TV presenter India Willoughby urged people to engage in a synchronised #PeeForMe piss protest – because nothing says dignity and equality quite like public urination.
The faithful finally gathered at St James’s Park to hear the gender gospel delivered by omnicause preachers draped in trans flags and keffiyehs.
One of the first to speak was Avery Greatorex, a greasy-haired lad who identifies as a transwoman and serves as co-chair of Pride in Labour. In a suitably manly voice, Avery railed against the Labour leadership for not introducing gender self-ID and for accepting the recent ruling: ‘When we needed them most they turned their backs.’
Another comrade took the mic to lament that the Supreme Court had not consulted trans-identified people or organisations. As lawyer Peter Daly has noted, anyone could have intervened in the case on gender ideology’s side. It’s just that the only organisation to manage it was Amnesty International.
The faithful finally gathered at St James’s Park to hear the gender gospel delivered by omnicause preachers draped in trans flags and keffiyehs.
One of the first to speak was Avery Greatorex, a greasy-haired lad who identifies as a transwoman and serves as co-chair of Pride in Labour. In a suitably manly voice, Avery railed against the Labour leadership for not introducing gender self-ID and for accepting the recent ruling: ‘When we needed them most they turned their backs.’
Another comrade took the mic to lament that the Supreme Court had not consulted trans-identified people or organisations. As lawyer Peter Daly has noted, anyone could have intervened in the case on gender ideology’s side. It’s just that the only organisation to manage it was Amnesty International.
Next came a dull vagina-owner who said her name was not important. She rallied support for Dr Beth Upton and Rose Henderson – two men demanding access to women-only changing rooms at work. The pair were hailed as civil-rights pioneers. The speaker, who is coordinating a ‘Flowers for Beth’ campaign, urged support for these changing-room Che Guevaras.
She was followed by a bearded union activist called George. He told the crowd the solidarity between the Labour movement and trans activists was just like the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners campaign. The timeline was a bit hazy – ‘30 or 40 years ago?’, he wondered out loud – but the vibe was right. George blamed Christian fascists in the US for funding transphobia. No receipts were provided.
He was followed by Sarah Jane (né Alan) Baker, a violent ex-con turned trans activist who in 2023 called for TERFs to be punched in the face and was reported to have removed his own balls in prison while doing a stretch for kidnap, torture and attempted murder.
It was a carnival of causes: ‘anti-racists’, ‘anti-imperialists’, Palestine campaigners. Despite having spent much of the past decade declaring they simply want to pee, the activists’ chants extended beyond a demand for equal treatment. They included: ‘No assimilation, trans liberation’; ‘No justice, no peace, no gender police’; and ‘One struggle, one fight, Palestine, trans rights’.
The showstopper was a man from the Trans Legal Clinic. After explaining that ‘all cops are bastards’, he raged that despite his ‘double-D titties’, he’d been called ‘Sir’ by a police officer. He then assured the crowd that ‘sex work is work’ and took the opportunity to announce the launch of the Trans Legal Fund to take on the Supreme Court in some unspecified way.
Unlike previous protests, no celebrities or politicians dared take the stage. Childish graffiti, limp placards and discarded leaflets are all that remain to prove anything happened at all. The activists, full of rage but empty of reason, still can’t say what rights they’ve actually lost.
Following the Supreme Court ruling, it’s baffling to recall the grip this muddled mob of dimwits and fetishists once had on public life. How did we get to a point where women were hounded from their jobs for stating biological facts – all to avoid offending these deranged people, some of whom are prepared to piss in protest? How did they hold so much sway that even the prime minister felt he could not definitively say that women don’t have penises?
One day, we might well laugh at the collective lunacy that gripped the early 21st century. But not yet. First, we need to ask the people who indulged it: what the hell were you thinking?
Jo Bartosch is a journalist campaigning for the rights of women and girls.
This article (A trans-activist temper tantrum) was created and published by Spiked Online and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author Jo Bartosch
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