Rape Crisis NI will be joining trans allies to protest Let Women Speak event in Belfast on Sunday 16 April 2023 1pm

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My Mum co-founded the first Rape Crisis Centre in Northern Ireland. I told her about the below(*), she was shaking with rage and felt physically ill. I got a quote from her for @RapeCrisis_NI,

‘You are not feminists, what you’re doing goes against the ethos of any actual rape crisis in the world, which is about women being there for women and children. There will be true rape crisis counsellors at the #LetWomenSpeak event who have worked in this country for over 30 years supporting survivors of rape and sexual abuse whilst you handmaidens betray women.’

(*) See https://twitter.com/NoraUtd/status/1646874371129069569
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If you read the twitter thread you will see this in one of the responses

The original one that closed due to funding cuts was for women only. The new one that opened years later in 2020 seems to have changed the criteria to all. The previous one lost funding for being too specialist…. Wonder if this was a theme?
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The BBC have written a news story about the LWS Belfast event and planned protests and that The Women's Rights Network was able to show the film Adult Human Female in Belfast.

BBC report here with maybe a bit of a slant?! ie they aren't counter protests as LWS events are protest but freedom of speech for women events https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-65187388

KJK was physically assaulted, as were other women present. Are you forgetting that little fact when gloating over how she left? Fleeing violence is an act of self-protection, not cowardice.

Good God. Professor of Equalities Law at Manchester Metropolitan University - is this person inciting violence against women attending the LWS event in Belfast?

Another university to cross off the list for my DDs.

LET WOMEN SPEAK

Yes N. Ireland I meant.

I understand both ROI and N.Ireland both have the Nordic Model for prostitution? I didn't see any mention that she had been trafficked. The point however is that male violence against women is something many of us would consider talking points in a "let women speak" event?

Professor whittle proving that quislings are alive and well

Are you seriously trying to spin the protestors as ‘not supporting trans rights’? That would make them trans rights activists in every book available.

It seems dishonest to attempt to frame them any other way.

“Give a New Zealand welcome” WTAF is wrong with this prof?

So, you have nothing!

You have resorted to your usual of unsupported accusations and claims.

How dishonest can you get?

You think people cannot see your patterns? Either front up the evidence, else stop being dishonest. Just for once.

I don’t know. Have you lined up a woman to speak about it ?

I have heard many diverse topics discussed at these events. There was a sex worker discussing models at one recently.

This is not the gotcha you think.

It merely shows your own prejudice and lack of any depth of knowledge about what is actually discussed.

Please could someone help Merlin find his marbles? I'm not sure that they are safe out on their own without a responsible adult.

No, your point, indeed direct quote was - "will she be mentioning the recent murder of a sexworker in Limerick?"

So, whilst again noting your distasteful use of a real life murder victim as a handy 'prop' to try and advance a weak argument, you still seem to think KJK should speak about 'womans issues' that you and fellow MRAs/TRAs suggest. And in this case a very specific example that happened weeks ago, in a different country.

How many times do you have to be told that KJK provides the event, a platform, a microphone for other women to speak? The subjects aren't prescribed. Speakers can choose any subject they feel is of importance to them, as women.

Women are speaking. About things that are important to them. Try listening.

@MerlinsLostMarbles Still waiting for your evidence of KJK'S anti-trans position.

Just saying.....

Who is harrassing them?

I think someone is projecting with that accusation of harassment.

Please turn out & give a New Zealand welcome toKellie Jay K M

Professor of Equalities Law at Manchester Metropolitan University - is this person inciting violence against women attending the LWS event in Belfast?

Do the people who say things like this just dont care, or really do believe that it is okay to encourage violence against women.

But lets hope the PSNI do a good job of keeping the TRAs at bay.

Because, despite what RC NI and other women's groups are doing (siding with men who want women to be quiet) there are women who want to speak.

2023 and we have ask police to help us let women speak even though in theory we have freedom of speech

https://twitter.com/hashtag/LetWomenSpeakBelfast

This is appalling but not surprising.

Rape Crisis is completely captured. The CEO of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre is run by a male who identifies as a woman.

Brighton Rape Crisis Centre even put out a statement in 2018 condemning a WPUK event and calling it transphobic.

survivorsnetwork.org.uk/transphobia-in-brighton/

MerlinsLostMarbles
So if KJK is talking about "women's rights" in Ireland soon (tomorrow I think), will she be mentioning the recent murder of a sexworker in Limerick?

KJK simply gives the opportunity for women to speak about women's rights.

So a woman may have prepared a talk. It's not KJK's event to speak at.

She gives platforms to women because they're de platformed elsewhere.

Has anyone at RC England said anything?

Aja has a tweet list of various orgs who claim to support women who will be actually centring men at the event:

twitter.com/aja02537920/status/1646951921184391168?s=46&t=A2fpFNgDRyXF2d6ye97wEA

I clicked on Aja’s thread. I did know what it would list, but fucking hell that list made me sad.
All those women’s orgs proudly coming together to SILENCE women.

Her little video is also just horrendous. I had forgotten that the nutters actually yell witch at the women!

Yes, they should be. That means keeping biological men out of them. Glad we agree on something.

Yes, by their deeds shall you know them, not by what they profess.

"Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things."

(Granny Weatherwax, I Shall Wear Midnight).

So much of this situation could be resolved if the TRA and MRA actually treated us as people, with rights, hopes and dreams of our own.

Looks like a good turn out in Belfast and the Police seem to be keeping the woman haters at bay.

That Big Fish is meant to represent the Bradán Feasa or Salmon of Knowledge. He was the repository of all the wisdom of the world according to legend.

This excellent fish 🐠 will doubtless project an invisible force field to deter those of evil intent. Knowledge is anathema to them.