arrested at Pride for wearing a sign saying Trans=mental illness

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Montgomery Toms has been arrested for wearing a sign showing the pink & blue stripes of trans=mental illness.

Arrested. What has happened to free speech in this country?

https://x.com/ESpeaksFreely/status/1941518454466748461

@Waitwhat23 - interesting pics you posted there…

Tbh it’s purposefully inciting a breach of peace to turn up to a pride walk with that. So I am not surprised he was removed. Hopefully the arrest is just a removal and a warning and everyone can move on.

A stupid stunt with only mean-spirited motivation behind it.

Shouldn’t be arrested though. IF you arrest everyone who acts like an entitled
self-absorbed arsehole there won’t be much room in the holding cells.

They were arrested for being members of a banned terrorist group., banned after some members caused millions worth of damage to military equipment.
Who knows what the next stunt would have been.

Terrorist acts against aircraft probably.....but only at an RAF base and not the USAF ones - they'll shoot to kill

Is it possible that the arrest wasnt because of HIM but to prevent a public disorder offence for this winding someone else up and causing an issue? Not that I agree that this is right - I think he was bang on and very brave for doing it.

You're seriously going to claim using a single word 'TERF' is "abusive and bullying" when you all bang on about the derisive terms you use for trans women not being nasty at all just being factual?

The ones I see here regularly - TIMs, men LARPing as women, men in frocks, sex mimics. The list goes on and TRA is wheeled out as a slur around here constantly. None of this is abusive or bullying though, these are just factual words with no emotion assigned to them, like chair, obviously!

The hypocrisy is astounding.

It’s a misogynistic slur used against feminists protecting their sex based rights. Hope that helps.

Most trans people deny they have dysphoria.

Trans people are people identifying as trans. They say it themselves "I identify as a woman". So if it's a male who is identifying as trans, then what the hell is wrong with TIM? Considering that is what they say themselves.

If a male is in a frock then it's a male (or man) in a frock. Just as a woman in a bikini is a woman in a bikini. Or a woman in a frock or gown is a woman in a frock or gown. So what's your point?

So is Pride political or not?

If it is, then protests are the point.

Your post says people shouldn't upset other people at Pride unless it's about upsetting them in the right way about certain political points.

Confusing.

How is TRA a slur?

'Terf' is used to call for violence and death to women. Thats the context.

men LARPing as women

they are 🤷🏻‍♀️ they are live action role playing as women. They aren’t women, they are role playing what they think a woman is

“Fuck terfs” “decapitate terfs” “terfs can suck my big trans cock” - all real quotes. It’s an abusive slur. Not all women who don’t support all trans activist demands (the majority position) are radical feminists, and feminism isn’t required to include men or men’s wants.

He’s great!

I'm sorry but vile people do say vile things that imply this and I can only assume they are from terfs

so just feminists?

no one that isnt a feminist? (we keep getting told that only 7% of women identify as feminists….those 7% must be very busy)

no males at all?

Quite. “Pride is a protest”. I remember when Get the L Out took it over completely for about half an hour in 2018, that was a magnificent protest. The howls of outrage later from TRAs at Pride in London for not stopping it were quite something. Live streamed on the day by the hapless fool reporting for Pink News and well worth a watch, it was still on their website last time I looked! Fantastic.

https://www.gettheloutuk.com/blog/lesbian-visibility-at-london-pride-2018.html

That's what you call yourselves on here all the time

be really helpful if you stopped youing all over the thread

i know you don’t want to believe this but there is not a hive mind….lots of posters on here vary in their views

indeed! Im happy to be called a TERF (tired of explaining reality to fuckwits) but I csnt consent on behalf of other women

as always though I find the TRA whining and whingeing about pol being meeeeean very amusing. Happy to dish it out to the extent of literally screaming in women’s faces but even the tiniest comeback the othef way tjey take to their fainting couches

Some women who've had the slur aimed at them have reclaimed it.

Some women who've had the slur aimed at them have reclaimed it

i know, and some women have reclaimed bitch and slut as well

doesn't mean any of those should be bandied about with wild abandon and used for anyone on a particular forum

unless of course a thread is started about being a terf in which case i wouldnt have a leg to stand on 😀

Exactly @RufustheFactualReindeer

Of course. Reclaiming a slur doesn't mean it's okay to use it AT someone.