It may be emotionally hurtful, skql, but I support anyone's right to peaceful protest.
The women protesters standing outside the library, while some of them were pretty loud, obnoxious and intimidating, didn't actually make me fearful in the way that the chanting, masked, threatening men do. Fearful in the way that a rat nailed to a wall would.
Being emotionally upset isn't pleasant; it's not the same as being physically intimidated.
I disagree with trans-rights activists on many things, but I support their right to protest. I don't support intimidatory, threatening behaviour.
It terrifies me that the boundaries between the two things are blurring, so that people support, for example, milkshakes being thrown at people they disagree with, dehumanising language like 'scum', right through to 'punch a terf', etc. It seems to me that politics as a whole is moving towards a more confrontational, aggressive and violent expression.