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Trans activists occupying MoJ

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OVAgroundWOMBlingfree · 08/03/2019 14:39

mobile.twitter.com/rosiekerrs/status/1103995803511721984

50 activists are reportedly occupying the MoJ as a protest regarding trans women having their own prison wing created for them.

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Anlaf · 08/03/2019 18:46

They came to the Home Office first. Until we pointed out that we hadn't been responsible for prisons since 2005

GLORIOUS

AnneElliott · 08/03/2019 18:42

They came to the Home Office first. Until we pointed out that we hadn't been responsible for prisons since 2005.

Floisme · 08/03/2019 18:41

So it looks like they asked permission, came into the foyer, had their picture taken and left.
Seriously?
Grin
It sounds like an episode of Citizen Smith.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 08/03/2019 18:40

Did Sadiq sell off Boris’ water cannon?

Zooop · 08/03/2019 18:37

Looks like the same group as blocked entrances to the Department of Health last year on IWD until the police arrived in sufficient numbers to move them on - that was also Action for Trans Health. I’m not sure if it’s them or another group currently JRing the NHS about gamete storage.

RedRosa90 · 08/03/2019 18:35

Oh my fucking god. this is their protest? On IWD? this is their beef with MOJ when the rape conviction rate is so low, when the system victim blames women and subjects women victims of s.v. to the kind of character scrutiny we see in no other kinds of crime? when most female prisoners are survivors of d.v. and abuse???? THIS IS THEIR PROTEST ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY?????????????? fuck the fuck off.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 08/03/2019 18:33

I hope there was supposed to be a comma in there 😁

TowelNumber42 · 08/03/2019 18:31

Yes, that's what I think of Fekko

Smartieshavetheanswer · 08/03/2019 18:30

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LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 08/03/2019 18:29

Twats.

MillytantForceit · 08/03/2019 18:28

So it looks like they asked permission, came into the foyer, had their picture taken and left.

Not what we called an occupation in my student days.

(Held the admin block for three days til they cut our rent.)

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 08/03/2019 18:26
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TowelNumber42 · 08/03/2019 18:14

When I think lady beard I don't think of faces. Grin

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 08/03/2019 18:09

I’m on my phone - the screen is teensy! Actual men - are you sure... are you misgendering them? Are you sure they aren’t lady beards?

TowelNumber42 · 08/03/2019 18:08

I can only see men with beards and people with masks in the 3 banner photo.

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OVAgroundWOMBlingfree · 08/03/2019 17:58

That pipe band video is one of the funniest things I have seen in a long time. Grin

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LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 08/03/2019 17:57

Where do they expect male bodied prisoners to go? What about the Karen Whites of the prison community - where do they expect them to go? Or are they the loons who have demanded that all trans prisoners are free?

What a bunch of stupid wee girls (I can only see girls there). Idiots.

WaddIelikeapenguin · 08/03/2019 17:54

theOtherPamAyres Grin I had forgotten about that video Grin only an utter muppet gets in the way of a pipe band

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 08/03/2019 17:53

Do these people really think so little of women that they don't think they should be protected

I really think so.
Misogyny is nothing new, this time round it is simply dressed up slightly differently.

Courday · 08/03/2019 17:38

I really don't get this. For a start sex exemptions are legally still allowed.
Women in prisons have disproportionately been victims of abuse and it is well documented they types of crimes transwomen are in prison for.
Do these people really think so little of women that they don't think they should be protected?
They are away from the men who may attack them for being trans.
If the suggestion is they will attack each other then that only gives more grounds to any arguement for keeping them away from women.
Everyone has rights no one is more special than anyone else.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 08/03/2019 17:32

So you think the weans know why they are there and who the names on the banner are?

God we had ‘Free Nelson Mandela’ in my day. This lot would have ‘Jimmy Saville was misunderstood’ banners (if he was still alive).

Floisme · 08/03/2019 17:31

I can't wait for Titania McGrath to hear about it.

Datun · 08/03/2019 17:23

Interesting to see the crimes committed by those they want to be put in a female prison.

Fortunately, only the most lunatic of people would agree.

I like the sound of Karen White being their 'don't persecute me' poster transwoman.

FermatsTheorem · 08/03/2019 17:21

Early it already has a name - Poe's law. No parody is so ridiculous that it can't be mistaken for the real thing...

I personally would love to see this protest reported on the front page of every newspaper in Britain, together with details of crimes committed by Karen White, Davina Ayrton, Lauren Jeska, Clare Darbyshire, that rapist in Scotland whose name escapes me. Name the whole bloody lot of them.

ClaraMatilda · 08/03/2019 17:19

Is there a name for this phenomenon?

Poe's Corollary?