More developments.
Baker is really peaking people. Article in the Spectator just posted from someone desperately trying to "be kind", but Baker's threats and the endorsement of his views from Trans Pride is just too much:
"Jane Baker made a speech from the stage through a bullhorn whose climactic line was: ‘If you see a terf, punch them in the fucking face.’ The organisers of trans protests can no more be condemned for ‘kill terfs’ signs in the crowd than the gender-critical speaker Kellie-Jay Keen can be called a Nazi because a cohort of white supremacists joins the crowd for one of her events. But this wasn’t some isolated lunatic in the crowd. This was a speech from a public stage, seemingly endorsed by the organisers of the event: the video of this incitement to violence appears to have been hoisted on Transpride London’s Instagram feed.
Can we say it was just a rhetorical flourish? I don’t think so. Sarah Jane Baker spent three decades in prison for a series of violent crimes including kidnapping and attempted murder. And here ‘she’ is, openly advocating violence and being cheered to the echo doing so. So speaking on behalf of the milquetoast, benefit-of-the-doubt, centre-ground-seeking constituency whom the advocates of self-ID, if they are to make any progress in the court of public opinion, will need to win over: what in the name of God are you clowns playing at?
In the last few months I’ve seen the idea of being ‘peaked’ enter the discourse: someone who might regard themselves as an ally, or undecided, or confused about these issues, someone keen to #bekind, digesting some piece of news and coming to the conclusion that the trans rights movement is now being spearheaded by vicious, entitled misogynists. I’m afraid that seeing Baker thundering that threat of violence from the stage and being cheered and celebrated for it has ‘peaked’ me. I daresay it will have peaked many others like me. If the purpose of trans pride is to celebrate diversity of identity and speak up for human rights, if the purpose of trans-inclusionary activism is to persuade rather than to intimidate, this seems to me a massive own goal. If you’re worried your opponents will ‘weaponise’ outrage at Baker to discredit your cause, how hard is it to make sure that there’s nothing to weaponise? There’s no excuse whatever for platforming a violent criminal offering to punch women ‘in the fucking face’, and even less excuse for celebrating it afterwards."
Sam Leith Trans activists don’t help themselves
Article
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/trans-activists-dont-help-themselves/
2 - The Pink News article on Trans Pride is mainly on Munroe Bergdorf, but specifically mentions Baker as a leading figure at the event, but no mention of the violent threats. More proof of Baker's importance to the Trans community.
"Munroe Bergdorf was among a jam-packed line-up of powerful speakers at London’s Trans+ Pride including artist and community organiser June Lam, radical trans liberation activism group Transgender Action Block, figures from the Trans Workers Solidarity Network and Trans Prisoner Alliance CEO Sarah Jane Baker."
3 - Sex Matters have written a cracking letter to the London Police Commissioner on what happened asking for answers why this is not being taken seriously. This is not going away:
https://twitter.com/SexMattersOrg/status/1678322547962568705
Keep pushing at the media folks. This is a big story, write in. Get your MPs to take a stance one way or another especially if they are in Labour.