Edinburgh Uni under pressure for hosting discussion on women's sex based rights

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Scotsman article here

So far they have been firm re. protecting freedom of speech, but the pressure is escalating and will continue, and they will keep a close eye on the balance of negative/positive correspondence.

The event details are here.

If any of you could write in support of the event the key recipients would be the head of the School of Education Prof. Rowena Arshad ([email protected]) and the Principal Prof. Peter Mathieson ([email protected]).

And now in the pub, apparently! 👍 was

Genuinely appalled to hear that. I thought the protest was all glitter and crafts, not physical violence and intimidation?

Was the attacker the lovely Cathy?

Also the University Pride Committee (I think) has apparently resigned en masse.

So that ‘bravely’ say.

They not that. Why did they resign - because the talk went ahead or because they were told not to talk about it? How many actual transsexuals are there on the campus? 1 or 2?

Am assuming they want to force resignations (the principal, etc).

They should really have stayed on message and not had protesters assaulting speakers in that case tbh.
And organized a trans conference that was actually intersectional

Yes, the irony SuperLoud

TownTattle is disturbingly full of hate and anger, imo.

Poor Julie.

Not just towntattle but others being incredibly ageist & misogynist on twitter.

They shouldn't have shown their hand to women who've had to deal with both for decades who have so much compassion for anyone vulnerable but v little patience for this shite

What. Why would they attack a woman

Ffs violent pigs

Did Brennan attack Julie ?

That photo was nicked from Joan McAlpine's Twitter feed. I don't think Cathy Brennan was in the room - I'm sure we'd have been aware if he was!

Why would they attack a woman

Male-pattern violence.

Gawd they so can’t stand that women are allowed to speak

Allowed to speak

What fucking century do I live in where women are attacked for speaking

I don't think Cathy Brennan was in the room - I'm sure we'd have been aware if he was!

I think they* were outside. They tweeted:

“Lost my shot at Julie Bindel. She filmed me. I’m safe.”

*because I don’t want to get banned.

“Lost my shot at Julie Bindel. She filmed me. I’m safe.“

In fact, the “shOT” appears to have been a typo for “shIt” so they are admitting to having “lost their shIt” at Bindell.

I do hope the police have seen this tweet and Bindell’s footage.

What the fuck will it take for the authorities to start taking notice?

Safe ? From what

"Cathy" Brennan is a very sick man. The rest of the protesters were quiet and well-behaved but he arrived shouting and swearing and clearly unstable. The trans people inside the venue were well-behaved, apart from the stink bombs...

Stink bombs? Seriously?

“Lost my shot at Julie Bindel. She filmed me. I’m safe.”

Presumably wanting to highlight to their followers that JB did not respond violently to being assaulted. more’s the pity

Nice to see a few folk from here were also there this evening. Checked out twitter and clearly TRA types are flooding Twitter with a lot of made up/misrepresented crap using the SexBasedRightsEd hashtag.

Great evening. It was easy to tell who wasn't enjoying it from their constipated, sour expressions. Although to be fair, at least there weren't rape alarms etc.

Horrified to hear Julie got attacked. Where was Security?

Seems he stole his name from a feminist

Gawd does he live in Edinburgh ?

Stink bombs? Oh, I did wonder, but thought perhaps someone had eaten something that disagreed with them...