Irrespective of what is or is not appropriate if someone says that wouldn't take the mic because they were aware of their partner being there, then I am afraid it indicates that they are not working without taking into account the reaction from "the other side".
In terms of the SfW event that is maybe personal but if you are one of the women presuming to represent other women to the local council re what women want, specifically in relation to women only services and how to respond to threats from TRAs you should, with any decency and intergrity, not take part.
The public statement from the group saying Brighton Council should ask everyone to behave nicely is just inane, when there has been ample evidence of TRA intimidation. There was no follow up statement condeming the violence at the SfW event. So clearly this "feminist" group does not consider VAW a problem.
Added to which, please stop using Sarah as a virtue signaling strategy. First of all you should never have said she was part of the group, it is a gross invasion of her privacy and secondly, could comprimise her annonymity.
As a long time reader of FWR before recently joining it is clear that in fact it is this forum more than any other that has given her the public profile her case needed without using her is some totemic way.
I am anold school women's liberationist and realise current standards are different, but am truely shocked by this.
But also as an old school Women's liberationist I am not surprised that socialist feminists are manipulative, use private networks, and I am afraid, think anyone who isn't a socialist feminist is some sort of serf who needs to kept in line and instructed what to do and think.
Personally I think we should start a rumour, which may even be true, that WPUK never really cared about the GRA, they just thought it would be a tool to capture politically niave women into to joining the left. We could set up facebook groups and starting posting about how one of them was seen with someone from the Labour Party who doesn't even know what a woman is, for instance!