Our friend latsot went to a protest in Leeds yesterday…

I politely asked three different police officers from @WestYorksPolice if they wouldn’t mind just politely asking the misogynists to turn down their music just a little bit so that anyone could hear both sides.

All three absolutely refused, two laughed in my face. They were, of course, under no obligation to do so, but when I spoke to them earlier they claimed to be committed to fairness, and to a frank exchange of ideas, rather than an attempted drowning-out.

I spoke to a couple of the PCSOs but they were standing so close to the misogynist PA system that they either couldn’t hear my complaint or were content to pretend they couldn’t.

I think it would have been reasonable for the police to ask the TRAs to dial down the volume just a little bit. Just to ask, they didn’t have to enforce it.

It would have been, but to do so would be to violate the iron rule that trans people and their enforcers get to do whatever they want all the time.