Green group leader Cllr Emma Edwards, calling a point of order, said: “Calling trans women men is highly transphobic and it should be called out. This is absolutely unacceptable language to use around trans people.”
Phoebe Beedell asked council leader Cllr Tony Dyer (Green, Southville) whether the councillors who walked out of the previous full council meeting would listen with “respect, attention and tolerance to the lawfully expressed views of people they disagree with, including questions and statements from women who have concerns about the erosion and disregard of their hard-won, sex-based rights?”.
In a written reply before the meeting, Cllr Dyer said: “The council listens for all views and concerns raised by citizens.
“However, whilst gender critical beliefs are protected under the Equality Act 2010 as a philosophical belief, this does not mean that other people must remain in a space where they feel offended or distressed by those views.
“Whether to remain in such a space is a matter of personal, individual choice for councillors or anyone else to make for themselves.”
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-green-councillors-wield-pro-10628503
Sounds like women in Bristol and standing up to this trans tyranny.
If it wasn't so serious you would want to laugh that a councillor would say the Supreme Court ruling was about protecting a "phiosophical belief".