Women's Place meeting, Oxford - 25th April

"As we left they were chanting 'bigotry is so annoying' "

Inspired.

Thank you so much to all the wonderful women who organised and went to this. So much positive energy, thoughtfulness, respect and critical thinking in the room.

Just women talking about women's rights and surreptitiously munching on biscuits.

It's shocking that he didn't know about the Iranian football team. And was no doubt rather nonplussed with actual transwomen saying they're men.

I'm sure you're right AskBasil.

They are unpacked terfs. They swallow all the bullshit fed to them by transactivists.

And then when they hear feminists say transwomen are men, it reinforces what they think. Without hearing the argument from the start, they don't get the full picture.

The protesters were chanting 'Transwomen are women'.

Debbie Heyton and Kristina Harrison saying 'no we're not! No we're not!'. But they had their invisibility cloaks on so the protesters couldn't engage with them

The protestors sound so posh southern to me!

They're really mindless aren't they? They don't know what they're protesting. The Iranian women's football team is really well known to anyone interested in this issue so the fact that they guy knew nothing about it, says a lot about the rent-a-gob / bored student up for a protest aspect of it.

They're all terfs. None of them believe a person with a penis is a woman.

Great speakers. Really interesting woman from the Dominican Republic. Abortion not legal there and yet she says they are being pressured by America to introduce gender recognition. Sees it as colonialism.

As we left they were chanting 'bigotry is so annoying '. Isn't it though?

Invited them to the pub but no one came

I did manage to get some takers for my biscuits at the start of the meeting. Interesting (and respectful) chat with a young man who chided me for being on the same side as Jacob Rees-mogg but was baffled when I pointed out that 80% of the Iranian women's football team are trans.

I'll be wearing my WPUK badge with pride
They have badges?! I want one!

I was there too and it was great. Respectful, sensible and sane. I couldn’t hear the protestors at all until we left. The poor woman with the baby and some others had to leave through the back. Awful!

What a brilliant evening! Sorry I didn't get to talk to many people - the teenager wasn't up for the pub afterwards. I thought all four speakers were fantastic, and the sense of camaraderie in the room was amazing. I'll be wearing my WPUK badge with pride.

I'm in! Police had to walk myself and a mother in as they had threatened her and her child

I am utterly shocked. This goes against everything Oxford was about when I was there and I graduated in the noughties, so not that long ago.

Oxford has more than 20,000 students if you include the postgrads, so only a very tiny proportion were protesting.

all but one refused a biscuit.

That one - they'll eat that biscuit and just have a look at this hate-site, before they know it they'll be lurking and then they'll reg because they just can't resist commenting...

and then they'll be a mumsnetter

Glad you are all getting out ok

Refused biscuits?

Police had to walk myself and a mother in as they had threatened her and her child How disgusting. and how frightening for the child. What kind of person does that?

They were still outside when we left chanting "Oxford loves transwomen" and all but one refused a biscuit. Rude.

Urgh that's a scary thought. How many of them are future politicians?!

Some of the most privileged youth in the world. And they couldn't have just bought a ticket and joined in the Q and A? These are tomorrow's journalists and politicians.

Thanks @Invalid I'm going to see if I can go to another meeting. So annoyed how fucking dare they and in MY town....

@Sickoffamilydrama

You’ll probably miss the talk, but you could join the people in the pub for the socialising after!

Catching up on the live tweeting reading it makes me wanna cry - "if the sex of a person becomes merely a matter of self id then we will completely lose the ability to talk about sexism and male violence towards women in any meaningful way.....that's enough to conclude it's a bad idea."
And yet people (politicians) aren't concluding its a bad idea are they?!

Video of bloke with a megaphone leading the chanting against a woman's meeting, in 2018
#brave

twitter.com/_JackHunter/status/989204238176833552?s=20

Arghh live about 40 mins away but Oxford is the town I grow up it's MY town. If i left now would I miss the whole thing???