Transphobic Christmas lights

[Bitchyfrench]

Can't believe more people aren't up in arms about the transphobic Harry Potter Oxford Street lights.

Apparently a mere 10,000 people have sent emails to London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan demanding that he ‘pull the plug on transphobia’ and cancel the themed lights.

The Good Law Project, who are always at the forefront of good sense and well-rounded thinking are quite rightly outraged that trans folk can't possibly feel Christmassy when inanimate twinkly Christmas lights are mocking their right to feel festive.

Down with this sort of thing.

You first 😘

I see you’ve popped back to the thread nice and early 😂 right backatcha

2 more sleeps! 🥳 🎄

What is worrying is that 90% of people responding to the OP post are unable to detect sarcasm and just jump straight to arguing.
I worry for this country. Sarcasm was the only thing we had left.

One more sleep to literal genocide 😭

'Tis the season for the sad times and Big Girl Pants. Courage, mes arcs-en-ciel, courage.

And the Christmas bells that ring there, are the clanging chimes of doom 🎶 🤶

Is the lidderal genosyde happening today? I want me some Christmas light cheer. Are they on?

They are going on this afternoon- try to contain your excitement until after Transphobic Christmas Lights Day lunch 😂

HOOORRRAAAAAYYYY !!

I'll line up with my plate at the Serf 'n Terf. Served up with a biologically sexy gravy. I just don't want to know what the secret ingredient is, but it sure is tasty

I am planning to see the lights next week after I have been to the shop...you know the one 😁

Do we have any reports on the death toll yet.?

I heard it was too many to count - and additionally there are literally hundreds of thousands of people who feel so unsafe that they won't be able to leave the house now until at least 2042 in case they see a bit of HP merch.

So many sad times.

So far I’ve seen one photo on FB of the stage and what looked like a gospel choir singing. Haven’t seen the lights yet. But didn’t see any protests so maybe they stayed at home and cried into their pastel polyester flags instead.

There’s an update on another thread. There were about 5 protestors including that man with pink bunches. They seem to have been corralled in a little playpen surrounded by Harry Potter advertising while the festivities went on regardless of them 😂

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5587347-petition-urges-londonmayor-to-scrap-harry-potter-christmas-lights-over-transphobia?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share

So 11,000 petition signers turned into five protestors with a megaphone. How strange.

Reducio!

🤣

They had those green rampy things to stop truck bombs from driving into crowds of the wantonly ungendered. So no deaths were noted in my walk to the wilds of deepest Mayfair.

I didn't see one protester.

“Wantonly ungendered” has to be a t shirt logo i must have one

I’m starting to feel like Terfs aren’t the minority like TRAs make out, is it all a lie?

I ended up on Oxford Street just by chance last week and I did give a little snort when I saw the Harry Potter themed lights! Ooooh the bare faced cheek!

They were in a little playpen, have a look on Twitter, it’s highly funny. I’m thinking to take a clip, make it into an animated gif of pigtails man, put Christmas card style writing that reads “Shouting at Christmas lights” and make the letters appear sparkly. Then I’m going to post it in response to every TRA or hanger on who mocks women’s events and protests for their size.

Oh please do. It sounds like they were throwing their toys out of the playpen.

Love it! 😂

To be fair, on my way back, I didn't check every inch of Oxford Street, but I did walk the entire stretch.

There used to be buckets of funding for gender campaigning in the UK, much of it American. They would have had someone paid to say 'no' to this kind of thing, purely based on the unfortunate optics.

I think now, the Americans have given up on the British movement.