They’re all having a great time by the looks of it. Listen to their polite, middle-class voices - I’m sure some parents are parked up round the corner keeping a watchful eye from a distance. They’re well on board the social-activism train now, heading off to youth parliaments (if they’re not already members of such things) meeting up with Just Oil and Greta Thunberg acolytes - travelling to far-flung climes to protest at conferences etc… I’m sure some of them might be more timid/ND types who won’t tread that path because of social anxiety and ill-health - but there’s your usual core of middle-class girls that seem to be leading the charge. But obviously they might be men - SO hard to tell with the masks.
And the adults behind it? Jude Guaitamacchi was prominently visible at the other roof-top protest. Another adult TRA who seems to be wanting to make a name for themselves and was at the roof-top protest, is transwoman Olivia Campbell Cavendish. An interesting character who apparently is, or is going to be, the 1st UK Black Transwoman barrister. They were everywhere a few weeks ago, showing off their new ‘boobs’ on Insta and saying how they were proud of them, and not going to hold back from showing them off. Images on their Insta of them topless cupping their breasts. Nancy ‘Stonewall’ laughing about how Olivia had flashed their tits at them at Pride.
I haven’t seen Olivia at this protest yet but maybe that’s because there’s a lot of controversy surrounding them. Olivia has accused a well-known transman Kenny Ethan Jones of SA and DV. Another transwoman, Charlie Craggs, has steadfastly defended Kenny calling into question Olivia’s version of events. It’s all very unpleasant and confusing with accusations of ‘toxic masculinity’ being levelled at transman Kenny. I think someone can see that the optics of having Olivia at this protest may be a distraction. I see Munroe B has gone along and had photographs with the kids and posted up that statement on their Insta - probably hoping that their bigger profile will garner more attention.
I have sympathy with these children. They’ve been told that these drugs are the answer. Some of their parents have probably gone to great lengths (and expense) to get them on the puberty-blocker pathway. In their eyes, society simply has it in for them, and are denying them their rightful medications out of plain spite.
It doesn’t look like the mainstream media are at all interested either. I just hope this doesn’t encourage them to take more self-endangering action. I hope the adults behind-the-scenes are truly looking to protect them.