"Scotland has allowed itself to become a toddler playpen for these fragile thugs"

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Jenny Lindsay a former BBC Slam Champion with her own book is to be joined by Magi Gibson, recently listed as the third top favourite poet in Scotland by Scotsman readers, and Elaine Miller, the fringe comic and woman behind a merkin protest at Holyrood. The show titled WOMANWORD is due to be hosted by Blackfriars Cellar in Glasgow, but the venue is under public pressure to cancel it.

The show is pegged as "An afternoon of celebration with three of Scotland's best women poets and performers" with topics expected to centre around women and feminism.

The trio are hitting back against allegations of transphobia from Cabaret Against the Hate Speech, the group behind the failed furries protest in Glasgow and the protest of the feminist film at Edinburgh University.

The activists told Twitter followers: "Dear @Blackfriars_Bar there is a show going on next month in your basement that is showcasing 3 performers that are anti trans with some being more extreme than the other. Why is this being allowed in your venue? @StandComedyClub protects the trans community. Do you?".

More info https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/backlash-glasgow-venue-faces-pressure-29870136

Institutions cower at even a whiff of troid rage. If these men are supposedly so oppressed, how is it that they have so much power over others.

I hope they keep using the name “Cabaret against hate speech”. For me, the word cabaret sounds seedy and at the same time frivolous: I associate it with alcohol and sequins and fishnet tights. I know feminists are considered by some to be horrible old harridans, but as soon as transactivism comes out of the Denton’s closet, it seems to court an image that is even more open to criticism.

I find what is so dispiriting is that the number of people who actually think women talking about women, or even being fund about women's sex based rights are very, very few.

And yet so many who would not really lose anything by just not complying, ie who cares about some shouty messages on SM, actually change their own lives to accommodate them.

How did this happen?

Cabaret against hate speech makes me think of 'Legz Akimbo'.😂
And every time I hear or read 'trans rights are human rights ,' I think of Neil from the Young Ones saying 'vegetable rights and peace'.
Must be my age......