Durham Miners Gala - Women's Rights are Human Rights

[POWNewcastleEastWallsend]

There was an even bigger turn out at the Durham Miners' Gala this year for women's sex-based rights campaigning groups! Thirty women and twenty banners. Every year there are more women and more banners but this year they outdid themselves and it really feels like a "tipping point".

What did the local and national mainstream media cover: the first "Pride Parade" at the Gala, consisting of one (yes, just one) organisation.

Did they cover the women's rights campaigners? The banners celebrating the Darlington Nurses? Jeremy Corbyn turning his back on the women when they shouted up to him on the balcony of the County Hotel, "‘Do you support women’s right to single-sex spaces?’

Of course they didn't.

I suppose we will just have to go to and read what wonderful Jo Bartosh wrote in Spiked:

The Durham Miners’ Gala has become a woke farce
The sight of feminists being abused by trans activists confirmed that the left has abandoned women’s rights.
14 July 2025 Spiked - Jo Bartosch

You shouldn’t need physical courage to remind the comrades of today’s Labour movement that women have rights. But in 2025, it seems that stating the obvious can get you assaulted, heckled and even left in need of police protection. This was the experience of over 30 women from grassroots feminist groups at the Durham Miners’ Gala on Saturday. And all because they joined the 200,000-strong crowd with a message the modern left would rather not hear. That message was, as one banner put it: ‘Women are born, not worn.’

To the beard-stroking union bosses and their student activist hangers-on, this message and the women who shared it were about as welcome as a Pride parade in Gaza. Just how unwelcome was soon made clear: one woman was allegedly headbutted by a trans activist, while others were shoved and jeered until police were forced to intervene. Solidarity, it seems, only applies to those who toe the ideological line.

Rose Reeve, from the Northern RadFem Network, explained why she showed up despite the risks:

‘Women should be as much a part of [the labour movement] as everyone else. But the unions have let women down big time. They’ve failed to support their female members who’ve been victimised, harassed and disciplined – in some cases, even losing their jobs – simply for stating that men can’t change sex.’

Full article:

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/07/14/the-durham-miners-gala-has-become-a-woke-farce/

Yes, as usual, women campaigning for women's rights were subjected to verbal abuse and were physically attacked. This time by a "Folk Against Fascism" female foaming at the mouth and by another woman who was with the Unison delegation.

Women doing the dirty work for men's rights activists.

Durham police bizarrely let the Unison perp go after having a "quiet chat" with her. So the victim had to go the police station to report the assault. With video evidence of the unprovoked head butting. Is the Unison mascot a Nanny Goat?

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WOMEN'S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS

The link in the article above is to the 30 women with 20 Banners singing "Women's Rights are Human Rights" as they reach and then stop outside the County Hotel, as is traditional to receive the "blessing" of the big wigs on the Balcony.

Who was up there this year? The currency luvvy of the UK Left, Grandpappy Corbyn.

As Ellie notes in her post on X:

"For women's rights are human rights 🎶🎵🎶"

Women march at Durham Miners Gala 2025

@jeremycorbyn refused to applaud women and then ran away

https://x.com/eille_sselt/status/1944158296468074897

Screenshots of Ellie's post are attached.

The lady in white is an 87 year old woman who was not intending to march in the procession. However, she got talking to some of the women and asked if she could march with "the Modern Suffragettes". 💚🤍💜

DARLINGTON NURSING UNION

One of the highlights of the women's rights procession at the Gala this year was a group of women from Let Women Speak North East carrying the banners they had made celebrating the Darlington Nurses.

As well as a Darlington Nursing Union banner there was a named banner for each of the nurses who lodged a Grievance against Co Durham and Darlington NHS Trust.

Their Grievance was about being forced to share a changing room with "Rose", an intact male nurse.

"Rose" allegedly sexually harassed one of the nurses, loitering only in underpants that exposed his genitals while demanding to know when she was going to get undressed in front of him. A survivor of childhood sexual abuse, she was severely traumatised.

‘We were forced to change in front of a man’
Darlington nurse Bethany Hutchison on the NHS’s capitulation to trans ideology.
15 June 2025 Spiked - Bethany Hutchison interviewed by Georgina Mumford.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/06/15/we-were-forced-to-change-in-front-of-a-man/

If you thought that was bad, it gets worse.

EXCLUSIVEI begged my bosses not to let the trans nurse who invaded our changing room take part in my intimate operation. They refused - as they didn't want to hurt HIS feelings
11 May 2025 - Mail on Sunday
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14698557/I-begged-bosses-not-let-trans-nurse-invaded-changing-room-intimate-operation-refused-didnt-want-hurt-feelings.html

I will post photos of the Darlington Nurses banners and other banners in separate posts below later on.

You can find them on X by searching for the hashtag #DurhamMinersGala
https://x.com/hashtag/DurhamMinersGala

Yeah but the thing is, these women have jobs and families. Not saying most of the TRA are jobless singletons who have the time to go and wee in public but…..

PS men can still never be women.

Glad to see it went well. With Labour officially starting to enforce the idea that women are real things are changing. Women already fought for their rights long ago and won.

The first Women’s Gala was held at Wharton Park in Durham City in 1923, preceded by a demonstration in which 5000 women and seventy green and white banners, accompanied by bands, paraded through the city.

I’ve put it in my diary. I’m not local, but could plan a holiday. Why not?!

Well done to all those women who marched and carried banners. Always scary that some of the unhinged trans lobby will get violent yet again.

That’s very encouraging. I was hoping this thread would be about the Gala supporting women’s rights. But as a trade unionist, I’m well aware how the unions have rallied round the male-supremacist transgenderist movement. They’re a disgrace these days. Good to hear that the crowd cheered for women, though.

Wow!! 5000 women! I’ve never seen the Women’s Gala mentioned before! Thank you ❤️

I'm in!

Consolation prize....

Well done. The left has shown its true face - a misogynistic male rights one. Thanks to all the women who marched at Durham!

Because women's history is often sidelined. Women were always at the miner's gala from the start. They decided in the 20s to create their own separate women's gala which was very successful and ran till the 70s and was revived in 2018 for a one off. Article
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/26/durham-brings-back-womens-gala-for-suffrage-centenary

Women can do things. Taking back the Gala is one of the things that needs to happen. I see Bee is panicked by a fairly small number of women with banners. Well guess what this is just the beginning. If you think this is scary just wait.

Women have taken back the Labour party - the unions and the Greens are next.

Thank you for the link to that article. 👍

When I searched for info about the Women's Gala all that came up were references to the 2018 and 2019 events.

I found the website for the revived Gala - very skimpy with the last info posted prior to the 2019 Gala so I do not know if that actually happened:
https://womensgala.wordpress.com/

Then it seems to have died a death:
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11080229

I am sure there must be more info somewhere about the original Women's Gala.

It is very optimistic IMHO to say that women have taken back the Labour Party. I would like to see some genuine evidence of insight and contrition for the disgusting, blatant misogyny it has revelled in for the last few years. Apologies to all the women they have wronged would be the bottom rung of the ladder they have to climb to restore trust and respect. Then they have a long way to go after that.

Explain it to me because I am totally baffled. All the feckers have done is deigned to notice we exist at all. The perverted slobs haven't even strolled in drunk at three o'clock in the morning and thrown a bunch of garage flowers on the table as a peace offering, let alone made us breakfast in bed, remembered our birthday, stopped simping for girl-dick, trashed all their porn accounts and treated all the family to an adventure holiday while they stay at home and finish fixing all those jobs around the house.

In what way have women "taken back the Labour Party"??

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Women against pit closures were a big thing.

Women have taken back the Labour party by forcing them to admit they exist, Labour party rules now say they are real. The Green party and many trade unions currently can't manage this. The rule change is going to have HUGE impact over time and seriously undercut TAs plans. It means no debate is truly over inside Labour and though there is a long way to go in open argument our side is always going to win sooner or later.

See this thread;
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5374205-labour-party-rules-updated-after-supreme-court-win-women-exist

Yes I agree that doesn't mean that Labour isn't messed up. They still haven't apologised for lying and persecuting members for saying biology is a thing. However the Tories never fully owned their failures in this either. There are still huge battles to be fought. However in argument over things like Conversion Therapy the fact the party admits that biology is real is only going to help.

As we both know the left has always been sexist in its own way. While pushing women forward in some ways it undercut them in others. There has always been a struggle and it is complex. The fact is it is easier to win power if you are a women on the British right is pretty telling.

"The fact is it is easier to win power if you are a women on the British right is pretty telling."

You could say that the Right is Pragmatic whilst the Left is Male Chauvinist Pigmatic

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Totally agree. If women have taken over the Labour Party it is the handmaidens of TWAW that have done so along with those who harbour the politics of envy and think that everything can be fixed by removing most of the school curriculum and replacing it with 'skills' and giving school kids the vote. Those are not women I think it would be wise to follow.

What rights have trans people lost? The right of men who ID as women to go into women's sex-segregated spaces etc? They did not have that right, so they have not lost it.
Meanwhile, transmen/female NBs have dodged a bullet. Had 'certified' sex been decided on (impossible but let's play pretend) they stood to lose a slew of rights - to maternity care, maternity leave, protection at work for pregnant women, protection at work for women generally etc - which have now been protected because the law is (and was) that they remain women however they ID.
So, @BeeSouriante please list these 'rights' you think are lost?

The fact that there are women jumping with joy, giggling with glee, THANKING the Labour Party and keen to get back on their knees licking the filthy feet that have been kicking them in the face for the last nine years - and calling it WINNING - blows my mind.

We can get "peaked" about more than one thing and this behaviour has peaked me to the Moon that socialist activism is a cult.

Don't get me wrong. Good things have come from socialism, if with ulterior motives when beneficial innovations in the UK were designed to ensure a healthy fighting force, to boost industrial productivity and reduce the economic burden of sickness, eg. the NHS, slum clearance.

Actually, it is my second peaking on this issue. The first was in April when I saw hundreds of men raising their fists in unison as they roared in call-and-response at a "Resist the Supreme Court Ruling" rally, apparently organised by the SWP.

The SC Ruling has as much to do with Palestine as "Trans Liberation" if the call-and-response chants are anything to go by.

It was like a mini Nuremberg rally. Horrifying!

That is the macho expression of the cult. The female version seems to be a Tittle-Tattle Doormat manifestation favouring Purity Spirals.

Musing on a possible bright side . . . possibly when these women flock gratefully back to the Labour Party they will get dug in trying to actually take back the Labour Party, rather than being diverted into seeking to undermine, or infiltrate and take over, non-partisan initiatives?

Great post @POWNewcastleEastWallsend