By way of context, actual aggressions and intimidatory acts towards women by 'trans-rights' activists':
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"Sunday Times research shows that at least 15 public meetings held by feminist groups opposed to the proposals have been invaded, threatened, picketed, closed down or forced to move venue by transgender activists.
There have been at least six incidents of violence or intimidation against opponents of the reforms, with one trans activist convicted of assault. At least 11 opponents of the change have been targeted through their jobs.
Trans campaigners are bringing private criminal prosecutions against three opponents after the authorities refused to prosecute them.
Feminists say the reforms would allow any man who identified as a woman into protected female spaces such as changing rooms. Trans activists say anyone who identifies as a woman must be treated as such.
Among the meetings attacked was one in Bristol by the group We Need To Talk, where a group of masked men and male-bodied people entered the premises and blocked women from getting into the meeting room. “I was frightened, extremely frightened,” said Heather Brunskell-Evans, one of the speakers, who said she was trapped on a narrow staircase. “They were shouting I was a Nazi — there was a man looming above me, pushing his chest into my face. I looked back and saw I had a number of steps to fall down — and I thought, God, I could really seriously damage myself.”
Hadie Abido, co-founder of the Jam Jar arts space where the meeting was held, said there was a “campaign of hatred” against the venue with “hundreds of messages” demanding the event be cancelled. He said Jam Jar had asked for evidence that the group was hateful.
A feminist meeting in Leeds was cancelled at three hours’ notice by the local council last month, which said the organisation holding it, Woman’s Place UK, breached its “values on gender and equality”. The council declined to say how the group breached its values.
Incidents of violence and intimidation include an assault at Speakers’ Corner last year, and an attack by trans activists on a trade union official, Paula Lamont, on a picket line in March. “They suddenly started screaming, they all came around me,” Lamont said. “They were all trying to push me, shouting ‘get her out of here’. Thank God the police were there.”
One opponent of the reforms who works for a multinational said: “I was sent screenshots of trans activists discussing [on a private Facebook group] a public campaign against my employer to get me sacked. Months later, I can still feel my voice going funny when I talk about it.”
Transgender activists have tried to organise an advertising boycott of the Mumsnet website for allowing criticism of the reforms, and of newspapers for reporting the case of Martin Ponting, now Jessica Winfield, a double rapist moved to a women’s jail after having a sex-change operation.
Politicians and trade union officials have been subjected to what a former Green member of the London assembly, Darren Johnson, called “ridiculous trumped-up complaints from transgender ideologues”. At least 11 have been targeted, though he is not among them." (continues)
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