Leeds WPUK cancelled

[LiverpoolReSisters]

IMPORTANT NOTICE - It is with regret that we have to announce that our meeting in Leeds cannot go ahead due to late and unreasonable cancellation. We will be emailing attendees shortly with more information. We condemn this act of silencing women. More to follow.

Have you seen the TRA lies?

The lie originated with The Banned Sprout. Strangely, the individual who supposedly alerted Jess Lennox is backing it.

Leeds City Council are in breech of the Equality Act, 2010.

Local authorities have a statutory duty to "foster good relations" between those who do and do not share protected characteristics - eg organising and mediating at meetings between transgender people and women.

They also have a statutory duty to advance the interests of people with a protected characteristic (eg facilitating or enabling a meeting to take place).

And of course, they are supposed to eliminate discrimination and unlawful conduct towards the protected characteristic people - rather than actively victimise and discriminate against them.

Here's the law:

149 Public sector equality duty

(1)A public authority must, in the exercise of its functions, have due regard to the need to—

(a)eliminate discrimination, harassment, victimisation and any other conduct that is prohibited by or under this Act;

(b)advance equality of opportunity between persons who share a relevant protected characteristic and persons who do not share it;

(c)foster good relations between persons who share a relevant protected characteristic and persons who do not share it.

I've just seen this - isn't it defamatory against WPUK? They are definitely not a "transphobic hate group"

Do you have a link to that letter, Moanella? I'd like to share it on my social media.

m.facebook.com/TransLeeds/?locale2=en_GB

Also here. Quite openly posted on their FB pages.
m.facebook.com/nonbinaryleeds

Thank you!

Screenshot here of the lies. I'm blocked but FeministRoar is tweeting about this and had the screenshot. My head is starting to hurt.

Mesmac again

Is this the person who got the meeting shut down? They say they are a Green party activist.
Is that it?

An open meeting where women are discussing changes to the GRA in line with a public consultation asking them for their input??

Do these people have any idea how this makes them look?

Do these people have any idea how this makes them look?

You mean, like entitled maled who can't have women impede their access to females of all* ages?

*The fella identifies as pansexual. As 'pan' means all encompassing, surely this goes for the age of people as well?

Thanks for the screenshot Tiger. I find it harder to do them off the phone.

At least the TRA version shows they understand shutting down the meeting did not make them look good. They try to shift the blame onto feminists despite all the Twitter evidence. RJ Firth, who bought a ticket to the event and was instrumental in getting it cancelled, says 'Nothing is ever straightforward with these people. Wouldn't surprise me if they had in fact booked the Victoria Hotel in advance and staged the whole thing.'

Nonesexual more like it.

A delightful new poster called RJFirth popped up earlier on this thread, but failed to get the attention he wanted so buggered off to goad people on the Judith Blake thread instead. Where he was also largely ignored.

Frankly knowing how the AWA lobby will behave, WPUK would be insane not to make at least one if not several back up bookings. FFS, is that supposed to be complaining that WPUK are refusing to be abused nicely and easily?

So RJFirth claims the booking was made under a false name and yet he presumably recognised it was a WPUK event as he bought a ticket?

I assume the room was one that was paid for who was the invoice raised for?. Didn't the form ask what the meeting was for and who was organising it - links to the ticketing so they could promote it... Live the million of rooms I've booked to various events.

Pimmsnlemonade has just posted this on another thread - article in the Times about the room cancellation
www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/leeds-council-bars-women-s-group-a-womans-place-accused-of-transphobia-jxh0rs8mj

@StroppyWoman I think we met and exchanged details I only wish now that I'd been brave enough to join you all on the steps before the meeting. You're all heroes

I'm not sure if the link upthread was a shareable one, this is:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/leeds-council-bars-women-s-group-a-womans-place-accused-of-transphobia-jxh0rs8mj?shareToken=3999404a57d934e0a1ecc45b6489fd9f

(Also in today's times a good letter from one of the co-founders of Transsexual voices matter, and a couple of other articles which feminists may appreciate)

From the article:

"Richard Firth, a Green Party activist who had a role in the cancellation, declined to give evidence of the group’s transphobia"

Nice big picture of the "activist" also.

What a fabulous article.
Thanks Times and Lucy Bannerman.

There was a great comment on there, I thought.

WPUK should rebook the room for a different date.

See what Leeds Council do then.

Actually, given that Leeds Council said that they would host such a meeting, it is just that they need security because of bomb threats, wouldn't it be a good idea to hold lots more WPUK meetings at council offices throughout the country?

No need for secrecy about venues at all.

And the councils would be responsible for the security themselves.

Open, transparent democracy in action.

Which council could resist that?