Bristol Green councillors wield pro-trans placards as war of words with women's rights activists reignites

Just imagine the uproar if someone started talking about disabled provision and a bunch of people walked out in protest!

“Everyone else just gets on with their lives, and then proceed to moan incessantly about government decisions.”

No vote is a vote for these fruitcakes.

Unfortunately the turn out for local elections is typically very low, only those who are politically inclined even bother to vote, which is why these fruitcakes get voted in because only the fruitcakes supporters are bothering to turn out to vote. 😠

Everyone else just gets on with their lives, and then proceed to moan incessantly about government decisions. I've been telling everybody for years, if you didn't bother to vote I can't be bother to listen to your whinging. It's made no difference, they still don't bother to vote.

This stops as soon as people stop voting these individuals in.

However, whilst gender critical beliefs are protected under the Equality Act 2010 as a philosophical belief, this does not mean that other people must remain in a space where they feel offended or distressed by those views.
“Whether to remain in such a space is a matter of personal, individual choice for councillors or anyone else to make for themselves.”
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-green-councillors-wield-pro-10628503

These are elected officials walking out of a meeting with constituents just because they don’t like what they hear and take offense at the truth? I am flabbergasted that elected officials are allowed to behave in this way. It’s insane.

Ffs! Ombudsman it is then!

Multiple women have complained about the councillors walking out of the July and September meetings.

This is what they get.

Well for what it's worth, based on that one snapshot, there are some green councillors also staring intently at their laptops looking awkward as hell.

I wonder if it makes for some awkward green party meetings.

Interesting photo alright. Three people of colour. None waving a flag or holding a placard. Two staring fixedly at laptop. As pp noted , another chap looking mortified. If only Zack could mesmerise them into forgetting this nonsense. Except he believes it .....or says he does

I think his brain needs checking. How ludicrous that an elected representative is so puerile.

I live in Bristol they are definitely an embarrassment. One of them is my councillor. They certainly have not heard of the Nolan principles of public life

If they think they have the right to walk out when women ask questions they don't like, what precedent does it set?

Can they just walk out when they are questioned about their expenses?

‘Councillor Alsayed Al-Maghrabi, who is Palestinian, has joined the Green Group on Bristol City Council. The Green Group now has 35 members, exactly half of the 70 seats on the council. Labour now have 19, Lib Dems 8, Conservatives 7, and 1 Independent.
Greens will now also have half the seats on the eight governing Policy Committees and are one councillor away from a majority.’

Seems a pleasant enough guy but surely he must have an opinion on the signs held up. Being gay or trans in Palestine doesn’t seem to be something that would be tolerated. Am I wrong?

I wonder what language/ terminology they would find acceptable to discuss the issue at hand.

I doubt they deny that transwomen are male - failing to do so would deny that transwomen are transwomen.

Perhaps they’d find the term ‘male’ more acceptable than ‘a man’.

If I lived in Bristol I would ask these councillors what language they prefer to be used to communicate the issues arising. If they failed to engage or responded that there is no acceptable language that enabled the Supreme Court ruling to be discussed in an accessible way, I would raise a formal complaint with the council and with their political party/ parties. If that failed, I would take it to the LGSCO.

It is ridiculous that women have to go to these lengths, but this is where we are.

implacable hostility and deep, deep stupidity

Sums it up beautifully. I would bet any amount of money that none have given the issues any further thought than ‘I’m a good person. Good people support the marginalised. I’ve heard that trans people are the most marginalised ever. So I support trans people. End of.’

Cue hostility when told to reflect further.

discriminatory not discretionary

Seems a rather unpleasant person to have as a Green councillor. Imagine thinking that only the feminine men who may pass as women need protecting and no one else. Just goes to show how discretionary these people are.

Some look very uneasy, the dark-haired bearded guy on the right looks like he wishes he was a million miles away!

Makes you wonder how many other ‘uncomfortable’ hard truths they’re not prepared to listen to?

You can tell that one person has written all the placards, same handwriting.

I wonder if there is a legal complaint to be had.

The council is there to serve the entire community. it councillors are walking out then we are back to #nodebate.

and they are not doing their job.

Why is it acceptable to walk out when a subject is uncomfortable? It’s not dissecting a frog in 2nd yr biology.
Also, is it me or are there less opportunities for below the line commenting in local papers of late?