Cardiff March for trans liberation, today

[ArabellaScott]

They've shared a new selection of chants:

I can't link, as it's FB, but will attach a screen shot.

Trans Aid Cymru

'Our chants for tomorrow! 📢

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Slide 1:

CARDIFF MARCH FOR TRANS LIBERATION
CHANT SHEET

Butches femmes, bottoms tops, everybody hates the cops

No justice, no peace! No racist police!

Oink oink piggy piggies! You’re not welcome in our city!

Kier Starmer - blood on your hands!
Wes Streeting - blood on your hands!
UK Labour - blood on your hands!
NHS - blood on your hands!
Hillary Cass - blood on your hands!

History will recall, Wes Streeting did nothing at all!

Wes Streeting/Kier Starmer’s a wasteman!

Slide 2:

CARDIFF MARCH FOR TRANS LIBERATION
CHANT SHEET

No borders, No nations- trans liberation!

Say it louder say it clear! Transphobia ain’t welcome here!

The queers united will never be defeated!

UK Government you’re all cowards! We the queers have the power!

We are the revolution! fuck transphobic institutions!

Give us hormones, give us love, rainbow logos are not enough!

not the courts, not the state, we decide our own fate!

HRT, HRT, over the counter and for free!

How many more have to die, before you stand up and fight?

Slide 3:

CARDIFF MARCH FOR TRANS LIBERATION
CHANT SHEET

1 - We are the queers
2 - We won’t be silent
3 - Trans liberation now now now!

We will not be quiet! Stonewall was a riot!

Fck your system, fck your hate, we are not here for debate!

We’re here, we’re queer, shove transphobia up your rear!

When trans women are under attack, what do we do?
Stand up fight back.

When trans kids are under attack, what do we do? Stand up fight back.

Slide 4:

CARDIFF MARCH FOR TRANS LIBERATION
CHANT SHEET

We will honour all our martyrs
All the children, sons and daughters
We will honour all our martyrs
All the parents, mothers fathers

The women of Gaza are revolutionary!

One struggle, one fight - Palestine, trans rights!'

The main London march was uncomfortable where I was. There was a very vocal pro Palestinian group near me. I tried again in Manchester and found similar. It's possible I was looking out for it more after the London March because it hit a nerve with me. But yeah there was definitely people doing it then.

More to the point, the people protesting in this situation are not fighting for equal rights, which they already have. They're protesting because they've just been told they don't have more rights than everyone else.

Thanks. I was trying to remember exactly which group had posted this word salad.

I don't really do protests any more - partly for professional reasons and partly for mobility reasons - but used to do lots of them.

My main takeaway is that even when the organisers were a bit mad (certain people turning up on the platform is an alarm bell for me) there was at least an attempt to make things look reasonable and positive. The organisers understood that alienating the normies was counterproductive to their cause.

Here we've got a cause that seems to be a magnet for every oddball in the country, who believe that alienating the normies is the main point, and the veteran organisers that usually turn up at these things have decided the oddballs are the revolutionary subject and must be deferred to. Well good luck with that.

Why not pay £19.80 for a 12 month HRT prescription prepayment certificate (PPC)?

https://www.gov.uk/get-a-ppc/hrt-ppc

I would wish they’d head over to Gaza, but the people there have enough to worry about without our oppressed, vulnerable minorities to look after as well.

Where is this unnecessary aggression? I was under the impression this was about a Supreme Court judgment they aren’t happy with?

Knock-off keffiyehs bought from Chinese factories via Amazon, not even the (gorgeous) real ones from the one remaining Palestinian keffiyeh factory left.

If some GC people turned up covertly and planted such signs, would they say "hey, this isn't what we want" or would they say "ah, so we're dropping the mask of civility and saying the quiet part out loud now"? It would be an informative experiment.

I struggled through a bit of that.

It reads like Rick from the Young Ones on acid.
Utterly bonkers, even by Rick standards.

Mass protests always attract nutters.

Not necessarily. I went on the Countryside March in 2002 and there was a lot of tweed and hip flasks but no nutters that I remember.

This ⬆️

Sorry not rtwft but why aren’t you getting the hrt pre payment certificate that’s about £44 for the year?

Don't be silly! They're women! Who cares about them when men's feelz have been hurt?🙄

Rights are suddenly pie 😅

TeaAndStrumpets · Yesterday 16:41

The spirit of William McGonagall lives on.

Gazing down, putting his harp aside, he's thinking, "Dear me! That's simply atrocious! "

As for The queers united shall never be divided, I prefer the Sham 69 original. If that marks me as a Philistine, then so be it.

The Palestine stuff is hilarious.
The London demo was 80 90% white.

Muslims are not going to help the TAs. Wait and see.

Sarah Ditum in the Times:
https://www.thetimes.com/article/6edacd7d-4047-4496-85cb-d75cc8297584?shareToken=64594259ca0e9d2489d42b1857f5fe40

As for The queers united shall never be divided, I prefer the Sham 69 original. If that marks me as a Philistine, then so be it.

Ooh, I haven't listened to the Fred Rzewski variations on the song for ages, that will be nice with a cup of tea this morning.

Let’s see how many of them actually turn out shall we?

Igneococcus · Today 06:12

Ooh, I haven't listened to the Fred Rzewski variations on the song for ages, that will be nice with a cup of tea this morning.

I don't know of him...

Ah... I was referring to If The Kids Are United.

As you were...

Fantastic, articulate, article, thank you.

Sarah Ditum saying it as it is, with a matter of factness that does nothing to disguise the horror of the behaviour of these men.

Interestingly, we seem to have gone way beyond questioning the concept of men saying they are women. What does it mean for a man to say he lives as a woman? Why does he say it, what is gender dysphoria?

It appears to be just a gimme that these are men, presenting as men, acting like men, and just demanding that women roll over because we have something they want. Roll over, or else, in fact.

We seem to have shifted from these poor people, oh for fuck's sake just do it, luv.

And the supporters and politicians letting them do it, haven't even noticed all the gloves have come off, and these men are just standing there with their naked misogyny oozing from every pore.

It's almost as though misogyny is so normal to some people, they totally fail to detect it, even when it reeks.

Not as catchy as the song "If a person has a penis he's a man." terfytunes.wordpress.com/2019/11/28/the-transjenner-song-if-youre-happy-and-you-know-it-clap-your-hands/

If a person has a penis, he’s a man
If a person has a penis, he’s a man
If he doesn’t want to lose it
Even though he doesn’t use it
If a person has a penis, he’s a man

If a person has a nutsack, he’s a man
If a person has a nutsack, he’s a man
He can tuck it to conceal it
Let it dangle and reveal it
If a person has a nutsack, he’s a man

If he amputates his bits, he’s still a man
If he grows a pair of tits, he’s still a man
If the chromosome’s a “Y”
HE WILL ALWAYS BE A GUY ……..
If he isn’t born a woman, he’s a man.