Calling all London Spartaci!!!!

[CuntAmongstThePigeons]

For anyone interested there is a debate about the new legislation and gender this Wednesday evening in South London

Miranda Yardley and the Julia Long are speakers. I will definitely be attending so hope to see a few of you there.

www.list.co.uk/event/20974934-what-is-the-meaning-of-gender-the-gender-recognition-act-and-beyond/

I've been wondering this for months now, what is Spartacus?

I've heard there was a public chat thrown tonight (by a TA). I hope the Spartaci are safe. Wish I could have made it.

Oh gosh, I hope everyone is okay.

Oh, my typo! A public chat was thrown Should read punch:
mobile.twitter.com/Mum3Sun/status/908048768481808384

Oh my, it looks like someone was strangled and hit

Maybe you were right the first time Althea. We must remember that (the wrong type of ) public chat is 'literal violence'.

Comments on FB seem to indicate a 60yr old woman was punched. That's just from FB though so can't say how accurate it is / isn't.

No! Where have you seen that, Ferrets?

This has actually scared me

I knew this stuff went on but it feels a bit more real when it's something I've been following in the moment iyswim.

Why would are they so threatened by a group of women simply wanting a non-violent peaceful discussion?

Somebody just posted it on that trans health FB page.

It might not be true of course...it's only on FB so far but if it is then and I hope she is okay.

mobile.twitter.com/isacsohn/status/908052457749708800

Hope everyone else is safe. Cannot believe a TA punched a woman
Hope that FB page gets some heat for inciting violence

This has actually upset me

Why are we thought of as the violent ones?

Oh my! I hope this isn't true!

You can guarantee that this will somehow be our fault

Just seen it on twitter with photos of the woman's bruises. Meeting coming to an end but attendees scared to leave as tas waiting outside. This is terrifying.

I've just seen about the violence on Twitter, and hoped there had been a thread on here

I knew things were crazy in the US, but I never thought you'd have TAs bearing and strangling a woman in the UK - I had hoped they were all mouth.

I really hope the the police take this seriously and charge the fuckers, as well as protect those still in the venue which has apparently been surrounded by TAs

I had a horrible feeling there'd be trouble at this event
Poor woman

On a side note, the tweeter has in their profile that they are anti-humanist which is new to me.

Oh god this is awful. I was just looking at that facebook page and am horrified at how they've been egging each other on all day and giving advice on what to do if arrested.
What kind of people need to know that before they go out? Like they're covering their arses before they get violent.

Oh the poor woman. Fucking hell im cross

Seriously, fuck this! On Twitter, people are saying that the police weren't even bothered!

The press better fucking cover this story. I believe Janice Turner mentioned the event earlier?

So according to fb and Twitter (of people at the event, in the main), the woman was punched, kicked and strangled by 4 people nr speakers corner. The trans protest fb page has deleted the "Let's fuck up terfs" post and has revised the wording about "violent terfs" (and the libelly bit) too bad there are screenshots and added disclaimer that (am quoting because it'll probably be deleted)

there was an incident this evening which will be hatefully and wrongly depicted by TERFs as male violence. Do not be deceived by violent attempts to discredit and erase our struggle.

our fight for Trans liberation is and always will be a feminist battle, and will be fought alongside the struggles of sisters and siblings across the world for an end to the violence against women that is perpetuated by cisheteropatriarchy. Let no one be deceived that they are fighting for all women if they are not fighting on these terms.

We're proud that today many self-organising activists, allies and supporters stood united against hatred, misogyny and intimidation. NO TO MALE VIOLENCE, NO TO CARCERAL FEMINISM. WHEN THE TERFS ATTACK, WE FIGHT BACK.

What a mess, poor poor woman, and what the fuck does CARCERAL feminism mean

I hope someone is screen shorting the FB discussions wth the TAs egging each other on to violence, could come in very useful if the woman punched presses charges. Also good as proof of the violence that we're all told never happens from transwomen...

Cross post wth anlaf, glad you got screen shots!

That poor woman! What a bunch of absolute bastards, and they call themselves women!!
This will probably get nowhere near the media too, imagine the outcry if it had been the other way around!!!!
😡😡😡😡😡😡

no to male violence.... oh the irony

"We do not collaborate with police and those who do are implicated in blah blah blah..."
Or as one woman interpretted it on Twitter "snitches get stitches"