Attacks on women in Sheffield by TAs on Saturday

Jesus. So while she was being assaulted by a man pressing his crotch into her and shouting in her face, the police were telling her off for calling him a man.

Our government has to get a fucking grip of this disgusting violence

It has two theatres known for putting on opera, ballet, William Shakespeare (RSC productions come), as well as modern drama/controversial and off-beat drama, musicals and music festivals, a famous international dance competition, an international firework competition that draws people from the whole of Lancashire over a month, a punk festival (very friendly and it was the punk visitors who protected the promenade from rioters last summer), some very expensive property and also some moderately expensive property. It has a new cinema - the old one used to stream plays from The Globe but not sure if the new one does, but definitely avante garde programme included. There are a fair number of local artists and musicians (enough to make a good open art exhibition - one of my friends exhibited and he's very good, also he is gay) as well as writers (poets, novellists, maybe not famous people but creative nonetheless, and locally known). The city is extremely welcoming to gay people with a gay cultural quarter, a big Pride event and a large gay population - many B&B owners and hotel owners are gay couples. It has one university, being an outstation of Lancaster.
Doesn't have a Pavillion but the Winter Gardens is definitely architectural kitsch.
Quite left wing - Labour MPs, and Labour controlled council - voted for Brexit, so sees the EU as a capitalist cartel and invidious to working class people.

The Brighton of the north. Or one could say that Brighton is the Blackpool of the south.

LOL - so Blackpool has two universities, a famous arts festival, expensive property, a large number of artists, musicians, writers and digital media companies, and is known for being left-wing and welcoming to gay people?

I saw this earlier, horrible. I hope Jean and her partner are okay. I'm so done with these people.

Who is the woman?

Blackpool is the Brighton of the North. I am not sure if there has been a demonstration there.

Exactly. It's a clear demonstration of their opposition to women's rights.

I hope that the women are ok!

Poor woman, she took a lot of abuse. Imagine being so angered by a Suffragette flag! It's a flag of liberation, surely?.

It's not in the Midlands, as pp have said. It's in South Yorkshire. Plus, there is absolutely no similarity to Brighton.

Thanks, is there a transcript, or a report available? I don't have the bandwidth, or data allowance to stream it. Thanks in advance.

It is Yorkshire. I think most Sheffield folk would consider themselves northern (just), same latitude as Manchester surely?

Didn’t Eddie Izard try to get voted in as mp for Sheffield and lose?

Sheffield is in the Midlands? I thought it was Yorkshire. I would have declared Leeds to be the Brighton of Yorkshire.

More and more I think that the TRAs are must the modern face of MRAs.

They hate and despise women.

For some of them it wont even be about the legal arguments or even about the legal or non legal statues of trans.

They are just beside themselves with rage that women aren't complient and know their place.

I wonder if anyone had had the time or inclination to compare the number of placards on the various marches, to see how many were actually making statements about trans rights, and how many were just messages of hate towards women.

I suspect trans = 0% and anti woman = 100%

So she just went there with a suffragette flag and was assaulted? Along with the defacing of the Millicent Fawcett statue, it goes to show what these people think of women and women's rights. They are still angry about a woman's right to vote!

Probably will blamed on "egg shell skulls" 😔

Sheffield is like the Brighton of the midlands.

Hopefully Jean and her partner are both fine and recovering

dreadful thing to happen, hopefully the police will pull their finger out and do somethIng!

Campaigner ‘covered in bruises’ after marching through trans rally with Suffragette flag: ’Terrifying’
https://www.gbnews.com/news/trans-protest-sheffield-suffragette-bruises

I hope that as happens with some violent protests there’s video evidence which the police follow up on.

(Rather hilariously silly and inaccurate poster in that link though)

At least he got charged I guess

https://www.barnsleychronicle.com/article/29638/tomato-soup-attack-leads-to-police-charges

Isn’t Sheffield where the soup throwing incident occurred?

And in Nottingham today or yesterday. At least one TRA was assaulting a male bystander who wasn’t even involved on either side, he was just filming the protest.

So many in the police force need to be fired, and the rest need to be retrained in equality. This is INSANE! I don't trust the police at all. The UK is no longer a safe country for women.