Leeds
From what I can tell so far, a few gender critical women put on a small, socially distanced political discussion in Leeds today. Result: they got arrested.
The police, its been reported, have said that women's rights aren't political and so Covid restrictions apply #Posie #StandingForWomen
— Dr EM (@PankhurstEM) September 20, 2020
A few fixed order penalty notices issued, such as @claireOT, as the police have declared any discussion of women's rights nonpolitical and thus illegal #Leeds #standingforwomen
— Dr EM (@PankhurstEM) September 20, 2020
Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (Posie Parker) has been arrested and threatened with a fine for arranging for women to speak about women's rights in Leeds. The police are on camera saying they do not think this is an issue that warrants a 'political protest' pic.twitter.com/RAHnxRTeKf
— ripx4nutmeg (@ripx4nutmeg) September 20, 2020
Yeah, women, eh – what could they have to protest about? Silly bitches.
Sergeant undercover said he wanted to treat @claireOT with dignity, but he didn't want her to practise her right to political protest, full Covid- mitigation measures in place @WeAreFairCop pic.twitter.com/i350uIcDl6
— isabelle tracy (@hullfair) September 20, 2020
Socially distanced women, talking about our political rights (legitimate, under the Coronavirus legislation exemptions) @LeedsReSisters @LeedsSpinners pic.twitter.com/UgVEI0Dw7u
— Claire’s Outrageous Thoughts (@claireOT) September 20, 2020
Not just Posie: here’s @emmajaned0lan getting her £100 fixed penalty notice. Despite the fact we have the right to meet, as a political organisation @LeedsReSisters @LeedsSpinners pic.twitter.com/9OmsuYdwIW
— Claire’s Outrageous Thoughts (@claireOT) September 20, 2020
Seems like old times, when women holding signs outside the White House were arrested for peaceful protest, and are still today referred to as “militant”. For holding signs and standing quietly. All the fuss and bother was created by the police arresting them, or by people jeering and shouting at them.
Are we back to the days when women cannot stage a peaceful demonstration, or argue for their own rights?
And here you have it: a view that is “not worthy of respect in a democratic society” cannot be one side of a political debate. It’s as if the women in Leeds were holding a rally advocating that puppies and kitties be kicked on sight. Not only morally reprehensible, but what bill or law is being addressed?
I do not know, but believe, that the general public is eventually going to go peak trans. Even in the UK. Maybe especially in the UK. It’s getting more and more blatantly ridiculous.
Women’s rights “not political”. Amazing.
It is getting more and more blatantly ridiculous, so we’re at this alarming choice of paths – reject the ridiculous, or embrace the more blatantly ridiculous than ever?
I guess that, if any many who says he feels that way is a woman now, then being a woman is a matter of choice. So there can’t be any political dimension to women’s rights because gender is just a matter of preference: all a woman has to do is say she’s not a woman but a man and then she, excuse me, HE, has full man-rights. QED.
So all those women, excuse me, people who don’t choose to be men, can be shut down all you want because there’s no political issue there. Being shut down is part of what they choose when they choose to be women, isn’t it?
Anyway, that seems to be the reasoning here.
To repurpose the language employed by a Cambridge critical race theorist:
Women’s lives don’t matter.
As women’s lives.
Papito, you are so right. This is what makes me fuming about this crazy cis word. Silly suffragettes, why didn’t they just identify as men, they could have voted, couldn’t they?
I’m with Holms @3. Is anything that is currently being discussed in public apolotical? I’m thinking no.
Some good news out of the UK: they’ve just officially refused to amend the Gender Recognition Act (GRA), thanks in large part to the hard work of gender critical feminists like Keen-Minshull. The GRA would have simplified the process of getting oneself legally declared the sex one isn’t.