This is a routine occurrence for city centre police officers, and it's plain wrong to suggest that they were motivated by lesphobia.
I don't know how many times I've frogmarched drunks, preachers, football supporters. stag dos and protest groups out of the way of a moving parade.
Me: "The parade is having to slow down, keep moving or you'll have to move to the side. You're causing an obstruction."
Them (not listening and shouting slogans)
Me: "Walk away with me now, and I won't have to arrest you".
End of story, unless they sit down - in which case, they'll be pulled up and pulled out of the way, by force. I don't care who they are or what their cause is. My job is to ensure that the parade goes through the city, without being held up, and if necessary to use my powers to eliminate obstructions.
It's routine, it's straightforward, it's clear-cut, no exceptions.
We know that the police have been well and truly stitched up by regulatory capture at the highest levels. We know that they have lost public confidence by policing so-called transphobia (wrong-think). They have 'previous' for ejecting women from meetings (I doubt whether they knew nor cared about their sexual orientation).
But don't carried away because its suits the feminist agenda. This was a protest that was designed to provoke a response and the police responded lawfully. Don't criticise us for doing our job - especially since the public value and support the policing of parades.