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Glasgow University refused service at the student union bar to women activists 'over their opinions and beliefs' and signs 'that make staff feel unsafe'

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IwantToRetire · 11/08/2025 18:15

A group of women's rights activists were refused service and kicked out of a student union bar they had booked 'over their opinions and beliefs'.

Let Women Speak (LWS) had booked a private room at Glasgow University Union (GUU) where they planned to hold a social after their rally on Sunday.

LWS had gathered outside Glasgow University holding banners with slogans such as 'Terf Island' and 'we are all Sandie Peggie' - a reference to the NHS Fife nurse who was suspended after objecting to a transgender doctor using the women's changing rooms.

Continues at https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14989247/Activists-womens-rights-rally-Glasgow-University-refused-service-student-union-bar-opinions-beliefs-signs-make-staff-feel-unsafe.html

Women's rights rally refused service at student union bar

Let Women Speak (LWS) had booked a private room at Glasgow University Union (GUU) where they planned to hold a social after their rally on Sunday.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14989247/Activists-womens-rights-rally-Glasgow-University-refused-service-student-union-bar-opinions-beliefs-signs-make-staff-feel-unsafe.html

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Igmum · 15/08/2025 12:49

There have been a few cases when venues try to exclude/throw out Terfs for their political views. It seldom ends well for them. Conspicuously Law Abiding Women don’t wheesht. I’m waiting for the apology and refund from GUU 🍿

Grammarnut · 14/08/2025 21:46

So Glasgow students' union bar staff think standing up for women's rights is hateful and makes them feel unsafe? What twerps. I hope they end up in court over this.

FrippEnos · 13/08/2025 18:10

singthing · 13/08/2025 18:02

I am so embarrassed for them, but not so much I wouldn't pay good money for them to be made to rewatch this when they are actual adults in the actual real world.

I suspect that most will go into the "charities"/"activist" areas of work where they will just live in their own echo chamber.

The "charities" end will continue to put on shows and marches, the "activists" will just cause problems for those people that want to work or employ people.

Edit
What is scary is that a lot of these people will remain in University areas and continue to undermine free speech in a system that is already suffering.

SinnerBoy · 13/08/2025 18:06

Hmm, I wonder how few of them will look back cringing? I mean, Nicola Sturgeon doesn't seem to have been affected, for example.

singthing · 13/08/2025 18:02

I am so embarrassed for them, but not so much I wouldn't pay good money for them to be made to rewatch this when they are actual adults in the actual real world.

Plasticwaste · 13/08/2025 17:33

Lol, every word a projection.

RedToothBrush · 13/08/2025 17:11

SinnerBoy · 13/08/2025 17:08

Oh dear, KJK and Team TERF being compared to the Jehovah's Witlesses!

this is the sort of thing that radicalises ppl further. there was a study on jehovah's witnesses that found the experience of having ppl telling them to get lost on the doorstep every day embittered them to everyone outside the cult and formed tighter bonds between ppl inside it. getting their victim complex fed like this sustains them. they've blocked gra reform, got puberty blockers banned, got trans ppl removed from the equality act and toxified the entire government and press over to their way of thinking, so they really do need stuff like this to convince them they're still oppressed.

regardless, they're dirt and should be treated as dirt. well done glasgow uni for telling them where to go, the most important thing is that any staff who are trans or allies shouldn't be forced to serve bigots

one day tho, they really will have lost and really will be completely socially unacceptable. I hope all of us and all of them live to get a good long look at it

Okay then...

SinnerBoy · 13/08/2025 17:08

Oh dear, KJK and Team TERF being compared to the Jehovah's Witlesses!

RedToothBrush · 13/08/2025 16:55

There are numerous videos showing this, and I would not recommend watching as the posters on the walls are horrible and you will land on terf media, but they are so stupid they have put up one called "Women and Kellie-Jay Keen Told to Leave Glasgow University Union (GUU) 2025 08 09" which shows all the above. And the speech hate evidence (which the bar didnt have from CCTV) is now available to Glasgow Uni to stop the refund.

SidewaysOtter · 13/08/2025 16:39

I've seen the videos too, and that Reddit poster is talking bollocks. Still, the urge to present things as you wish they were rather than how they are clearly dies hard...

SingleSexSpacesInSchools · 13/08/2025 16:33

To say that this version of events is untrue - is quite an uderstatement

https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/comments/1mp2r2r/kellie_jay_keen_terfs_kicked_out_of_glasgow/

I have seen the videos of what happened and it wasn't this....

RedToothBrush · 13/08/2025 14:02

spannasaurus · 13/08/2025 13:23

At around 26.28 in that video the male police officer says that if they had known in advance it was a women's rights event they would have treated the booking differently. They being GUU.

Oh there's plenty of legal stuff in there isn't there?!

RedToothBrush · 13/08/2025 14:01

It's the nodding whilst rolling his eyes that gets me.

I'm listening but not listening nor interested.

spannasaurus · 13/08/2025 13:23

naomisno1fan · 13/08/2025 10:02

More footage of the appalling treatment of paying guests by GUU management. He says on film his name is Tom Whitchurch. What a weasel.

At around 26.28 in that video the male police officer says that if they had known in advance it was a women's rights event they would have treated the booking differently. They being GUU.

INeedAPensieve · 13/08/2025 13:19

Kibble19 · 11/08/2025 22:51

I don’t know if any of you are from Glasgow, but if you are, you’ll be able to hear that manger’s voice by only looking at the photo.

For those of you from outside Glasgow, there’s such a thing as the Glasgow Uni Accent. Mocked, rightfully, by the normal people of Glasgow, the Accent afflicts many people who study or work at GU. Your literal next door neighbour could speak like you, go to GU and their accent transforms.

For example:

Normal Glaswegian: “hiya pal, ‘no seen you for ages. What you been up to?”

Glasgow Uni Accent cunt: “Oh heeey. Wow, how long has it been-n? I cahnt believe you’re ac-ctually hurrr. What an amay-zing surpryyyse. Is Fiona with you? We’re just going to finish these drinks then go to Dustin’s flaaaht for a gaff, hehe”

Often seen with tote bags, very pale skin and purposefully mismatched clothes. Love all things soya and pretend not to know very mainstream things like who Jay Z is. Work 3 hours per month but magically afford £9 vegan burritos each lunchtime.

I cannot abide them, and that wee manager is definitely one of them.

Ah for the laughing emoji to come back.

Yes, I know exactly what you mean. I lived in the West end for years, it's rife with these types. Kevin Bridges did a piss take of it in one of his shows; when he got more successful he moved from Clydebank to the west end of Glasgow and immediately noticed the silly accents and up themselves students. It's v funny.

JSMill · 13/08/2025 13:14

quantumbutterfly · 13/08/2025 12:32

He's out of his depth isn't he?
Bet he feels like he's been thrown to the terfs by black t-shirt woman & beardy guy. Do you think they drew straws.

Thank you for this, but disappointing to see a university stifling ideas with 'stonewalling'.

Especially a university which played a central role in the Scottish Enlightenment.

quantumbutterfly · 13/08/2025 12:32

naomisno1fan · 13/08/2025 10:02

More footage of the appalling treatment of paying guests by GUU management. He says on film his name is Tom Whitchurch. What a weasel.

He's out of his depth isn't he?
Bet he feels like he's been thrown to the terfs by black t-shirt woman & beardy guy. Do you think they drew straws.

Thank you for this, but disappointing to see a university stifling ideas with 'stonewalling'.

naomisno1fan · 13/08/2025 10:02

More footage of the appalling treatment of paying guests by GUU management. He says on film his name is Tom Whitchurch. What a weasel.

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quantumbutterfly · 11/08/2025 23:24

WearyAuldWumman · 11/08/2025 23:18

I did one year of Drama at the uni. (I needed a third subject for my first year.)

We had a 'Voice Class'. We thought that it would be about projecting our voice. Nope.

A wee Welsh wumman tried to get us to speak RP. I was told to read a recipe out loud in my "best accent". My Fife accent obviously failed to impress: "Weah yooou trying to read that propehly?"

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WearyAuldWumman · 11/08/2025 23:18

quantumbutterfly · 11/08/2025 23:06

We used to call it town & gown. Used to happen all over the place tbf.

I did one year of Drama at the uni. (I needed a third subject for my first year.)

We had a 'Voice Class'. We thought that it would be about projecting our voice. Nope.

A wee Welsh wumman tried to get us to speak RP. I was told to read a recipe out loud in my "best accent". My Fife accent obviously failed to impress: "Weah yooou trying to read that propehly?"

quantumbutterfly · 11/08/2025 23:06

Kibble19 · 11/08/2025 23:00

Just seen you went to GU. It’s just a joke that’s ran in the city for donkeys years, don’t get upset.

We used to call it town & gown. Used to happen all over the place tbf.

SionnachRuadh · 11/08/2025 23:00

BeeSourianteAgain · 11/08/2025 22:31

""woman activists""

Gender critical activists are only anti-trans activists and will happily hurt women in their obsession against trans people as they have shown multiple times.

Hell, they're the UK are of the anti-gender movement

the gents is over there mate

Kibble19 · 11/08/2025 23:00

JSMill · 11/08/2025 22:56

This thread is about the discrimination experienced by GC women at a GU venue. What is the point of bringing up people’s accents? What has that got to do with the apparent intolerance at the university?

Just seen you went to GU. It’s just a joke that’s ran in the city for donkeys years, don’t get upset.

JSMill · 11/08/2025 22:56

Kibble19 · 11/08/2025 22:51

I don’t know if any of you are from Glasgow, but if you are, you’ll be able to hear that manger’s voice by only looking at the photo.

For those of you from outside Glasgow, there’s such a thing as the Glasgow Uni Accent. Mocked, rightfully, by the normal people of Glasgow, the Accent afflicts many people who study or work at GU. Your literal next door neighbour could speak like you, go to GU and their accent transforms.

For example:

Normal Glaswegian: “hiya pal, ‘no seen you for ages. What you been up to?”

Glasgow Uni Accent cunt: “Oh heeey. Wow, how long has it been-n? I cahnt believe you’re ac-ctually hurrr. What an amay-zing surpryyyse. Is Fiona with you? We’re just going to finish these drinks then go to Dustin’s flaaaht for a gaff, hehe”

Often seen with tote bags, very pale skin and purposefully mismatched clothes. Love all things soya and pretend not to know very mainstream things like who Jay Z is. Work 3 hours per month but magically afford £9 vegan burritos each lunchtime.

I cannot abide them, and that wee manager is definitely one of them.

This thread is about the discrimination experienced by GC women at a GU venue. What is the point of bringing up people’s accents? What has that got to do with the apparent intolerance at the university?

Kibble19 · 11/08/2025 22:51

I don’t know if any of you are from Glasgow, but if you are, you’ll be able to hear that manger’s voice by only looking at the photo.

For those of you from outside Glasgow, there’s such a thing as the Glasgow Uni Accent. Mocked, rightfully, by the normal people of Glasgow, the Accent afflicts many people who study or work at GU. Your literal next door neighbour could speak like you, go to GU and their accent transforms.

For example:

Normal Glaswegian: “hiya pal, ‘no seen you for ages. What you been up to?”

Glasgow Uni Accent cunt: “Oh heeey. Wow, how long has it been-n? I cahnt believe you’re ac-ctually hurrr. What an amay-zing surpryyyse. Is Fiona with you? We’re just going to finish these drinks then go to Dustin’s flaaaht for a gaff, hehe”

Often seen with tote bags, very pale skin and purposefully mismatched clothes. Love all things soya and pretend not to know very mainstream things like who Jay Z is. Work 3 hours per month but magically afford £9 vegan burritos each lunchtime.

I cannot abide them, and that wee manager is definitely one of them.

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