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Should the police be arresting people carrying placards that encourage the hanging, burning or mutilating of Terfs ie women ??

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loveyouradvice · 19/04/2025 23:22

I thought that there were limits to what we could advocate... and that people carrying anti-semite placards (for example) in the Pro Palestine marches were arrested?

Surely there must be some protection from the incitement of violence that is happening on these trans rights marches?

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loveyouradvice · 21/04/2025 12:06

Yes...this is such a double standard... While I'm glad they are prosecuting those who defaced statues, surely that is in a different league to trying to incite violence against specific groups of women and women (including JKR)?

So agree with PP...
The police should be arresting anyone who incites hatred and violence against others, no matter who they are.

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EasternStandard · 20/04/2025 21:20

It really is a free for all to see how much abuse can be lobbed at women. It’s incitement surely.

ErrolTheDragon · 20/04/2025 20:12

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 20/04/2025 19:23

You are very much wrong, yes.
Not only does he feel entitled to use women’s toilets, he finds it fucking hilarious that he scared some thirteen year old girls when doing so.

Here’s an annotated account of that incident.

https://manatwork68.medium.com/my-first-day-out-by-eddie-izzard-c8ff9bcae245

There have been photos of him queueing in more recent times. He’s a massive disappointment.

“MY FIRST DAY OUT” by Eddie Izzard

[OR: ANOTHER DAY IN (THE MANBOX)] by Michael Conroy

https://manatwork68.medium.com/my-first-day-out-by-eddie-izzard-c8ff9bcae245

CrazyOldMe · 20/04/2025 19:30

Lucy Connolly got more than two years in prison for sending one tweet, which she later deleted. What she wrote was abhorrent, and she was rightly punished for it. However, many of the signs yesterday were of a very similar vein, surely?

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 20/04/2025 19:23

DriveMeCrazyRoadRage · 20/04/2025 17:50

I quite like Eddie. Am.i right in thinking he's never claimed to be an actual woman though? As far as I can tell he is clear that he's a man that likes to wear drag and call himself Suzie. All.od which is absolutely fine in my book! I don't think he looks like a woman or actually asks to use the women's toilets or expects men who identify as women to compete against women in elite sports. He seems sensible to me. Hope I'm not wrong about him/her.

You are very much wrong, yes.
Not only does he feel entitled to use women’s toilets, he finds it fucking hilarious that he scared some thirteen year old girls when doing so.

BundleBoogie · 20/04/2025 19:19

WinterFoxes · 20/04/2025 08:11

Yes. It was looked into only a couple of years ago and decided it was in no one's best interest, including women's, to include misogyny as a hate crime, as it was so hard to define. I am paraphrasing the statement, but that is its essence.

Partly because the trans activists had already jumped on it and the proposal was to include men who identify as women in women’s protections so there was a realistic scenario for actual women to get prosecuted for telling men who would like to be women that they aren’t actually women.

canthavethatonethen · 20/04/2025 19:19

The police should be arresting anyone who incites hatred and violence against others, no matter who they are.

JHound · 20/04/2025 19:16

I dunno what the law is on this. If the law would prosecute those who have placards calling for the burning etc. of socialists / Tories etc then they should also apply to those calling for violence against “Terfs”.

NotmeMother · 20/04/2025 19:12

There's a post on X from the Met Police asking for witnesses and information as 7 statues were defaced on Saturday 19th April.

TheCatsTongue · 20/04/2025 19:10

Withoutfearorfavour · 20/04/2025 17:29

Isn’t that a transvestite not a transsexual?

They are both trans or transgender.

The term is deliberately ambiguous to include all gender nonconformity.

Keirawr · 20/04/2025 19:06

If you want the police to do something, watch someone misgender someone on X, the police will be around to arrest them for a non crime hate incident faster than you can say pronouns.

This is why the public has started to mistrust these useless morons who go around pretending to uphold the law.

They are too useless and lazy to solve real crimes. That’s why they are too busy pissing about with non issues.

Kindersurprising · 20/04/2025 18:58

Silvertulips · 19/04/2025 23:24

You would think so but it's misogyny innit and women count for nothing it seems

So why do so many men what to be one?

It’s not about becoming us, it’s about taking from us.

ImConfusedDotComHelp · 20/04/2025 18:51

HaveYouActuallyDoneAnyWashingThisWeekMum · 20/04/2025 10:52

They’re just a different face of the Andrew Tate incel mob.

Feels like that seeing some of the placards on the trans march. Very violent to women. Awful

BiologicalRobot · 20/04/2025 18:50

DriveMeCrazyRoadRage · 20/04/2025 17:50

I quite like Eddie. Am.i right in thinking he's never claimed to be an actual woman though? As far as I can tell he is clear that he's a man that likes to wear drag and call himself Suzie. All.od which is absolutely fine in my book! I don't think he looks like a woman or actually asks to use the women's toilets or expects men who identify as women to compete against women in elite sports. He seems sensible to me. Hope I'm not wrong about him/her.

He does use womens toilets. Feels entitled to use them and abuses women who point out he should be in the mens, you might find a thread or two here if you do an advanced search.

He is also genderfluid where he goes between boy mode and girl mode depending on what sex he feels that day.

How he used to be is not how he is now and iirc he was very tra when he was campaigning to be a Labour candidate.

OctopusFriend · 20/04/2025 18:43

I had to laugh at the protest in our town centre, though - some of them had Palestinian flags and banners 😂!
Talk about stupid. How long do they think a trans person would survive in Palestine? Absolutely deluded.

MoistVonL · 20/04/2025 18:27

KimberleyClark · 20/04/2025 17:53

I don’t think Grayson Perry has ever actually claimed to be a woman either.

Eddie absolutely does use women’s toilets. And muses about being a lesbian. He can get in the sea with all that.

”Total Clothing rights” and “they’re not women’s clothes, they’re mine” was all a long, long time ago.

Edit - sorry, that was meant to be to @DriveMeCrazyRoadRage, not quoting Kimberley

andtheworldrollson · 20/04/2025 18:14

Police appealing for anyone with photos of whoever vandalised the statues , and I think people with nasty banners who may be yet be arrested ( sorry if I am repeating others )

Sharptonguedwoman · 20/04/2025 18:06

DriveMeCrazyRoadRage · 20/04/2025 17:50

I quite like Eddie. Am.i right in thinking he's never claimed to be an actual woman though? As far as I can tell he is clear that he's a man that likes to wear drag and call himself Suzie. All.od which is absolutely fine in my book! I don't think he looks like a woman or actually asks to use the women's toilets or expects men who identify as women to compete against women in elite sports. He seems sensible to me. Hope I'm not wrong about him/her.

Don't get me wrong, I thought Eddie was great and really funny. Here's the headline 'Eddie Izzard gives an update after revealing she’s changing her name to ‘Suzy’'
Don't know if it's allowed but here's a picture of him queuing in the womens toilets.

Felinnefine · 20/04/2025 18:00

OctopusFriend · 20/04/2025 16:56

Perhaps some of these sweet lovely transwomen / men were there today. Helping with the placard designs.

Or perhaps the sentiments on the placards come naturally to these people. It’s very similar to male pattern violence.

Oh. Oh yes. They are mostly males. God knows how / why any women are there. Turkeys voting for Christmas and all that.

https://terfisaslur.com/

TERF is a slur

Documenting the abuse, harassment and misogyny of transgender identity politics

https://terfisaslur.com

KimberleyClark · 20/04/2025 17:53

DriveMeCrazyRoadRage · 20/04/2025 17:50

I quite like Eddie. Am.i right in thinking he's never claimed to be an actual woman though? As far as I can tell he is clear that he's a man that likes to wear drag and call himself Suzie. All.od which is absolutely fine in my book! I don't think he looks like a woman or actually asks to use the women's toilets or expects men who identify as women to compete against women in elite sports. He seems sensible to me. Hope I'm not wrong about him/her.

I don’t think Grayson Perry has ever actually claimed to be a woman either.

DriveMeCrazyRoadRage · 20/04/2025 17:50

Sharptonguedwoman · 20/04/2025 17:34

Probably but the term seems to have fallen out of use. Eddie Izzard used to describe himself as a transvestite, I don't think he does now.

I quite like Eddie. Am.i right in thinking he's never claimed to be an actual woman though? As far as I can tell he is clear that he's a man that likes to wear drag and call himself Suzie. All.od which is absolutely fine in my book! I don't think he looks like a woman or actually asks to use the women's toilets or expects men who identify as women to compete against women in elite sports. He seems sensible to me. Hope I'm not wrong about him/her.

BeingScouseIsMySuperpower · 20/04/2025 17:47

Oh look, trans protestors bring threatening, destroying property and threatening to kill.

So, basically acting like men who haven’t got what they want from women.

DriveMeCrazyRoadRage · 20/04/2025 17:47

Silvertulips · 19/04/2025 23:24

You would think so but it's misogyny innit and women count for nothing it seems

So why do so many men what to be one?

Because they like wearing skirts, heels and makeup, and think that's what being a woman is. Quite bizarre as I don't know many women that fit this stereotype

Sharptonguedwoman · 20/04/2025 17:34

Withoutfearorfavour · 20/04/2025 17:29

Isn’t that a transvestite not a transsexual?

Probably but the term seems to have fallen out of use. Eddie Izzard used to describe himself as a transvestite, I don't think he does now.

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