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Demonstration against Let Women Speak Oxford

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IwantToRetire · 19/10/2025 03:04

A demonstration organised by the campaign group Let Women Speak (LWS) took place today at Bonn Square. Around 100 counterprotestors also assembled, including members from the Oxford Green Party, Stand Up to Racism, and Oxford for Trans Rights (O4TR).
https://www.cherwell.org/2025/10/18/oxford-trans-counterprotest-women/

Event was https://www.letwomenspeak.org/event-details/let-women-speak-oxford-2

Counterprotesters turn out for trans-exclusionary feminism event - Cherwell

A demonstration organised by the campaign group Let Women Speak (LWS) is taking place at Bonn Square.

https://www.cherwell.org/2025/10/18/oxford-trans-counterprotest-women/

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MouldyPeppers · 19/10/2025 08:34

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Because Muslim countries, like Afghanistan or Iran, are famous for their good treatment of women - not!

Anyone who is serious about women’s rights would be against Islam.

NoWordForFluffy · 19/10/2025 08:31

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That doesn't answer the questions of whether they were invited or whether they were supporting (i.e. were there to positively support women demonstrating free speech, carrying relevant flags and placards) or advancing their own cause, with their own flags and placards.

Do you have an unbiased source to allow us to decide?

Theresrainonmywindow · 19/10/2025 08:27

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NoWordForFluffy · 19/10/2025 08:18

Do we know exactly what they were saying / doing to know what 'face value' is?

I'd say that if they turned up with flags and placards promoting their own cause, they were using the opportunity rather than 'supporting'.

PoshCoffee · 19/10/2025 08:14

Who knows? Do we take people at face value or do we assign motives to them?

NoWordForFluffy · 19/10/2025 07:58

PoshCoffee · 19/10/2025 07:51

I thought the Raise the Colours movement have been very clever and taken a leaf out of KJK’s playbook. Them putting up the national flag is the same tactic as her woman billboard. Im
not surprised some of them have come to support her.

Are they supporting her or just taking the opportunity to show up for their own purposes?

I'm not sure the article was entirely accurate in its reporting of events, to be honest.

PoshCoffee · 19/10/2025 07:51

I thought the Raise the Colours movement have been very clever and taken a leaf out of KJK’s playbook. Them putting up the national flag is the same tactic as her woman billboard. Im
not surprised some of them have come to support her.

Easytoconfuse · 19/10/2025 07:47

MyBundles · 19/10/2025 07:21

support for her LWS by right wing "keep Britain white" types.

Having these men turning up to support her and waving Union Jack with 'Terf Island' written on them isn't a good look.

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Does that mean that women shouldn't speak? Or she shouldn't have her views? I don't have to like them, but I will fight for a woman's right to speak because otherwise feminism is just the same as the male patriarch. Or the transgender whatever-you-want-to-call-it -archy.'

Besides, I don't think Oxford Uni has anything to be proud of at the moment, does it? Would you prefer that student's chant?

MouldyPeppers · 19/10/2025 07:42

MyBundles · 19/10/2025 07:21

support for her LWS by right wing "keep Britain white" types.

Having these men turning up to support her and waving Union Jack with 'Terf Island' written on them isn't a good look.

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Blaming women for men’s actions again?

MyBundles · 19/10/2025 07:21

deadpan · 19/10/2025 03:49

It seems kjk's attendance at Yaxley Lennon's event has sparked support for her LWS by right wing "keep Britain white" types.
Each to their own I guess, she seems to court this kind of attention. But it doesn't help the rest of us when we're trying to lay facts bare to calmly explain our point of view.

support for her LWS by right wing "keep Britain white" types.

Having these men turning up to support her and waving Union Jack with 'Terf Island' written on them isn't a good look.

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 19/10/2025 06:44

The fact that the baying mob turned out to shout down the event shows just why 'Let women speak' events are necessary.

I see the student rag the article comes from is maintaining the much vaunted impartiality ethic of journalism. Not.

deadpan · 19/10/2025 03:49

It seems kjk's attendance at Yaxley Lennon's event has sparked support for her LWS by right wing "keep Britain white" types.
Each to their own I guess, she seems to court this kind of attention. But it doesn't help the rest of us when we're trying to lay facts bare to calmly explain our point of view.

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