Trans activists hound Nadhim Zahawi off university campus

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"Trans activists have hounded Nadhim Zahawi off a Russell Group campus, accusing him of “inciting hatred” by defining women as “adult human females”, The Telegraph can reveal.

The Education Secretary was met with dozens of student protesters chanting “Zahawi is a transphobe” and “Tory scum” while visiting the University of Warwick on Friday.

The Cabinet minister had to be ushered away from campus by security guards in dramatic scenes, as he was pursued by activists brandishing trans flags and placards."

Read more and see video on Telegraph's website

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/05/30/watch-trans-activists-hound-nadhim-zahawi-university-campus/

and on twitter

twitter.com/ewansomerville/status/1531339153958440961

If politicians see first hand what loons these activists are then there is more likely to be change.

The public are going to grow very tired of these people very quickly. They are doing a great job for women!

They seem to be mostly women too. What appalling behaviour.

Suffrage colours....I dont get it.....thats literally violence in itself

kick out the ringleaders. Simple as that. Either Warwick want to be bullied by kiddies or they don’t.

The sooner this intimidation is stopped the better. It wasn't fair when it happened to Kathleen Stock at Sussex University (it was her place of work for goodness sake); and it is not really appropriate for a University to allow this kind of threatening protest even for a visiting Government Minister.

It may peak more people though which would be a good thing.

That's really going to make him sympathetic to their cause isn't it?

Its good that the Education Secretary has seen this insanity for himself. Though I'm sure it was an unpleasant experience first hand experience will help when women want to discuss these issues with him.

Yep. We will continue to invite dialogue and fight fair and in the open through the courts. They don masks and hide behind #nodebate. This will backfire wonderfully i predict.

Do these transactivists genuinely think this helps their cause?

More evidence (as if it were needed) just how fucking demented these nutters are. They remind me of the BNP in using the same thuggish tactics until some of the smarter leadership cottoned onto the fact that that made them look like, er, thugs. Fortunately this lot really are fucking stupid.

Lovely stuff. Keep it up, mates.

This week's MVPs for the GC cause.

They're really losing all control of themselves, aren't they?

Here's hoping that something actually happens after this - some kind of sanction for Warwick for failing the free speech remit unless some students are disciplined. Until there are sanctions universities will do very little. Places like Reading seem to be the rare exception.

Good, that ought to make for an interesting cabinet meeting. Some first hand experience of the intolerant batshittery ought to get them thinking.

It was Warwick that had the rape chat scandal a couple of years back www.bbc.com/news/uk-48366835 , I bet they are in full damage control mode right now.

They certainly know how to make friends and influence people...!

I thought they were shouting Forest gump! But after a second listen it was Tory Scum!
To be fair it doesn’t look that intimidating but it’s rude and ungracious to a visiting minister and that’s enough

I just read that and thought excellent job! Are they really that thick they think that sort of behaviour towards a government minister is going to help their cause? Unbelievable

The batshittery is so much easier to see irl than on twitter. I'm grateful that they've had the opportunity to bring their cause to a wider audience.

Witchhunting, but showing the ugly side of TRA campaigning beautifully to the public. This is what #nodebate is all about, shutdowns and bullying.

Also, not exactly a great advertisement for University and futher education these days if it's incubating this.

Tory minister in trouble for speaking the truth. Well that's a shock!

One good thing is that this will show even people who are confused just how ludicrous things have become.

Statement prior to the visit:

www.facebook.com/warwickpride

'STATEMENT REGARDING EXTERNAL SPEAKER NADHIM ZAHAWI 🏳️‍⚧️
TW: Transphobia, SA, abuse, homelessness
It has been brought to our attention over the past few weeks that the Warwick Conservative Association is running an external speaker event, inviting Nadhim Zahawi, the Conservative Secretary of State for Education, to campus on Friday the 27th of May.
Towards the beginning of this academic year Nadhim Zahawi said the following regarding former Sussex University Professor Kathleen Stock, a notorious transphobe that is a signatory to the WDI (Women's Declaration International formerly known as the WHRC) "Declaration on Women's Sex-Based Rights", that published the transphobic book "Material Girls", that is a trustee of the LGB Alliance:
“It was unacceptable that a scholar of her calibre should be hounded out of university. For me that was just a terrible stain on the history of that great university.”
The WDI declaration argues for the legal elimination of transgender people. Quite frankly, Kathleen Stock's behaviour as well as the university's reaction is the only real "stain" on Sussex University concerning this incident.
Zahawi plays a significant role in institutional transphobia as education secretary for the UK, working alongside the EHRC (Equality and Human Rights Commission) to produce guidelines for schools and teachers on how they should treat trans students.
Concerning Zahawi's view on trans students, he said the following:
"Parents have to be front and centre of this. And that is my message to the front line is to say: you have to involve parents in this. You have a duty to safeguard those children and parents are very much part of that."
Zahawi trivialises the detrimental impact of outing LGBTQUIA+ youth to their parents; he is putting them at risk of abuse and homelessness.
According to the Albert Kennedy Trust (AKT) LGBTQ+ Youth Homelessness Report (2021):
-One in 6 (16%) who were happy to answer were forced to do sexual acts against their will by family members before becoming homeless
-Almost two thirds (61%) who were happy to answer felt frightened or threatened by their family members before they became homeless
-Half (50%) who were happy to answer said they feared expressing their LGBTQ+ identity to family members would lead to them being evicted
Zahawi has also made very concerning comments regarding corporal punishment and has made other transphobic remarks such as using the common transphobic dog-whistle "adult human female".
This external speaker event clearly violates SU by-laws on Equality and Diversity, however, we cannot fault the SU for its inaction regarding our complaint about this event. Nadhim Zahawi being a government minister clearly puts them in a complex position if they were to cancel the external speaker event. However the notion that Zahawi does not incite hatred is ludicrous at best.
On Friday some Warwick Pride Exec plan to attend this external speaker event, attending with trans flags and the intention to ask Zahawi questions concerning the rights of trans people in the UK. Despite it being exam season, we would greatly appreciate it if you could join us. The tickets are free to all university students and can be easily accessed from the SU website.

“There is strong evidence that minorities experience greater levels of stress when their rights are being debated” - Dr Adam Jowett, the chair of the British Psychological Society’s Sexualities Section.
Given that transphobia is omnipresent in society, it is imperative for the mental well-being of trans students that the university make itself clear that it is indeed supportive of transgender individuals, and that reactionary harmful transphobic rhetoric will not go unopposed.
Trans rights are simply not up for debate, they are non-negotiable.
Warwick Pride, the LGBTQUIA+ Association
Warwick Pride does not condone any violent behaviour, especially relating to this event, and any acts of violence at this event are discouraged and not to be affiliated with us.'

I can't get that excited, demonstrating at government ministers is just what students do. I wish they were doing it in a better cause though.

There's no comparison with Kathleen Stock. Ministers have security, they expect to be demonstrated at. Academics don't, we expect to be allowed to investigate freely and freely present what we find.