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Men in dresses smashed all the windows of the Brighton centre last night because women arranged to meet and discuss their rights

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SingleSexSpacesInSchools · 10/10/2025 10:27

https://x.com/bindelj/status/1976558089991311400

No arrests so far...

Julie Bindel (@bindelj) on X

Look at them - police don't seem to arrest these men - too busy locking people up for misgendering:

https://x.com/bindelj/status/1976558089991311400

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RayneBowTrout · 11/10/2025 12:02

@abitnervousohbugger Yes well laid out by @fromorbit and I too will be using these points to write to Peter Kyle.

abitnervousohbugger · 11/10/2025 11:13

@fromorbit thanks for this list. I am local (although Peter Kyle my MP) and will follow your list. I drove past the Brighton Centre this morning on my way somewhere and saw all the police and activists. How is it possible so many police are needed at a feminist conference? It’s madness.

StrongLikeMamma · 11/10/2025 11:03

And yet they arrest glinner for a tweet?! Wtaf.

lcakethereforeIam · 11/10/2025 10:59

Unlike sex, acts of terror are on a spectrum. Isn't that why Prevent was devised? To try to nip in the bud, stop radicalisation and escalation?

JamieCannister · 11/10/2025 10:55

akkakk · 10/10/2025 11:14

I would disagree.
Anything that uses violence as a physical and or psychological threat to make someone do / not do things at the behest of the perpetrator and is movement organised, is terrorism

The minute it is redefined it becomes too easy to then see it as okay - just a valid form of expression. Nope - it is terrorism.

I have to disagree.

Most people will recognize that the IRA in the 80s were despicable extremely violent terrorists. I think most will also perceive smashing windows at a feminist even is more akin to peaceful protest than it is to planting bombs with the intention of wiping out the entire government and many others.

I think it is vital to be clear that those "protestors" are a type of terrorist (they use violence to create terror and try to acheive political aims) but that they are not (yet) at the level planting bombs and trying to wipe out governments or innocent people.

borntobequiet · 11/10/2025 10:30

I’ve emailed my MP asking her to publicly condemn SB’s tweet.

Will put in a complaint to the Green Party too.

fromorbit · 11/10/2025 09:58

Remember to take ACTION. Its great to vent about this on Mumsnet. The next step is to fight back using our voices.

This trans terror has been going on for too long and the Police and authorities do nothing. Too many women have been attacked.
FIRST
Write your MP to ask them to condemn the attempt to close down a women's conference of 2000 feminists discussing women's issues. It has caused an estimated 50k in property damage to council property when budgets are in crisis. Also call out Sian Berry's endorsement of violence and attack on the freedom of speech and ask for action against this group. The Secretary of State of Health Wes Streeting has the correct approach see his response to the attack.

Wes Streeting
This kind of violent direct action is disgraceful. It is designed to intimidate people - in this case women - into silence and it must not be allowed to happen with impunity.
Remember Bash Back vandalised his office;
Wes Streeting’s east London office vandalised by trans protest group
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/wes-streeting-office-vandalism-trans-activists-b1241166.html

Sex Matters has a list of over fifty incidents of Trans activists threatening attacking, and silencing women in the UK. Make sure to link to this
https://sex-matters.org/about-us/what-we-are-up-against/intimidation-threats-and-violence-by-trans-rights-activists/
With the Supreme Court ruling it is time to stop the violence and censorship once and for all. The law is clear women are real. Violence is not going to change that.

Second
Also report Sian Berry to the Green Party for breaking their Code of Conduct;
Complaints Procedure
What to do if you feel that something in the Green Party has gone wrong
https://greenparty.org.uk/members/complaints-procedure/
Code of Conduct
https://greenparty.org.uk/members/code-of-conduct/
The Green Party’s approach to ethical conduct is guided by its philosophical basis and core values, which include a commitment to freedom of self -expression and the non-violent resolution of conflict.
Philosophical Basis para 401
‘The Green Party affirms the importance of individual freedom and self-expression. We believe people should be free to make their own decisions on matters which do not adversely affect others. Its importance lies in valuing the opportunity people have to make their own decisions, accept responsibility for them and develop in their own way.’
Green Party Core Value 8.
‘We look for non-violent solutions to conflict situations, which take into account the interests of minorities and future generations in order to achieve lasting settlements.’ These perspectives inform the following standards for conduct.

Almost certainly the Green Party will let her off, but we need to show up their hypocrisy when they are expelling members for saying biology is a thing.

Third
Write to the media and press ask for more coverage of this and other incidents. The TAs were trying to block entrance to conference police had to act to move them on. Flood the airwaves and press. When Polanski is on the TV lets get him asked about this. He has condemned the banning of Palestine Action what about the attempt to ban Filia?

Four
If you are in the area ask Brighton Council to condemn the attack which has caused an estimated 50k in property damage to council property and to stand up for freedom of speech against violent bigots.

Complaints Procedure - Green Party

What to do if you feel that something in the Green Party has gone wrong In the first instance it is better for a complaint to be dealt with informally by discussing the issue which you have with the individual concerned and to see whether it may be res...

https://greenparty.org.uk/members/complaints-procedure/

DrBlackbird · 11/10/2025 09:36

spannasaurus · 10/10/2025 18:13

Trans Pride Brighton said it was not involved, but would not denounce the vandalism, adding: “We are deeply concerned about a possible retaliatory attack on the Trans Pride Centre and community safety remains our priority.

Are they worried about retaliation from Bash Back if they denounce the vandalism?

Always the ‘both sides’ bloody comment. If there were any retaliatory violence it would not come from women but from violent males on the far right. Male violence does lead to more male violence. Yet always women’s fault. Odd that.

whatwouldafeministdo · 11/10/2025 09:26

So men are angry that women don't want them in their private spaces, so are violent towards women in public, where women can easily get away, and where there are police who will intervene to protect the women (one would hope).

It's not really making a brilliant argument for allowing these men in spaces where no-one can see what they're doing to women is it?

DrBlackbird · 11/10/2025 09:19

FortheloveofPetethePlumber · 10/10/2025 17:39

Not to mention the absolute capacity issues of any MP living at this point in history and parliament who fails to be clearly condemning of politically motivated violence and destruction.

Farage really needn't bother getting out bed at this point, the left parties are running the campaign for him.

Edited

The left parties are running the campaign for him cannot be said enough. Maybe the penny has dropped for Starmer sidelining the ‘progessives’ in the Labour Party but this absolutely determined refusal to connect the dots by the left and the likes of Sian Berry is handing political power to Farage. To the detriment of everyone.

nutmeg7 · 11/10/2025 09:14

Archive of Julie’s UnHerd article
https://archive.ph/TGTq4

fromorbit · 11/10/2025 08:53

Ruth Lewis
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Brighton police are allowing TRAs to block the entrance to FiLiA2025 and intimidated woman coming to talk about male violence. Kind of proves our point really. Sisterhood Solidarity

MusselTryHarder · 11/10/2025 08:38

maltravers · 10/10/2025 23:44

They want to do it
They feel entitled to
They enjoy it
The media normally looks the other way
They think frightening women will get them their own way.

And it works. Men violently intimidating women has a track record of success.

EasternStandard · 11/10/2025 07:22

lcakethereforeIam · 10/10/2025 18:47

I'm shocked that I'm not shocked. 'Look what you made me do!', that's the language of an abuser.

Yes this

Imnobody4 · 11/10/2025 00:09

Report from Sanchez Manning

A council refused to grant a legal order shielding a feminist organisation from antisocial behaviour hours after trans activists smashed up its conference venue.

www.thetimes.com/article/e683d832-a29a-4473-8dfd-9e944dec8e83?shareToken=968c6fa9dfe1095a5d49f925ca59613b

maltravers · 10/10/2025 23:44

eatfigs · 10/10/2025 12:20

I don't know why they think violence and threats will get them what they want. It makes no sense.

They want to do it
They feel entitled to
They enjoy it
The media normally looks the other way
They think frightening women will get them their own way.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 10/10/2025 21:39

Also from Julie, explains more about Sian Berry’s previous awfulness https://unherd.com/2025/10/the-green-partys-war-on-women/

Pollqueen · 10/10/2025 19:41

Well, keep pandering to the men in frocks and this is what you get. No sympathy for Brighton & Hove CC

notathenabutcassandra · 10/10/2025 19:37

FrankieCranky · 10/10/2025 11:53

I’ve just bought a solidarity ticket to FiLiA. If anyone has any spare cash it is a way of showing that we will not be cowed by this violence. One year maybe I’ll be able to attend.

Great idea, just did the same. Thanks @FrankieCranky

lcakethereforeIam · 10/10/2025 19:11

Is Filia women only? I think some of the events are but anyone can buy a ticket, even TiM. They'd have to sit out the 'women only' stuff, to which TiF could probably go, but if they behave themselves they'd be fine.

I willing to be corrected though. I've never actually attended one of their conferences.

SafeSex · 10/10/2025 19:06

...thus demonstrating perfectly why this women-only meeting was necessary.

LoveBunnies · 10/10/2025 19:05

Helleofabore · 10/10/2025 18:13

That is a shocker of a post. Sian Berry must be truly deep in a hole that she thought that was in any way appropriate.

I am quite enjoying the 35 thousand views and the...erm...16 likes though 🤣.

ChelseaBagger · 10/10/2025 19:02

I think everyone's got the wrong end of the stick here.

What I think really happened is that a group of Beautiful Laydees💅 were caught short in town late in the evening, and whilst knocking gently on the windows, politely calling out "we just want to peeeee!", they accidentally smashed the whole place up.

Coatsoff42 · 10/10/2025 19:00

lcakethereforeIam · 10/10/2025 18:47

I'm shocked that I'm not shocked. 'Look what you made me do!', that's the language of an abuser.

Good old ‘men can’t control themselves, women are responsible for men’s actions’