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| Violence has no place in transgender debate | Violence has no place in transgender debate |
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| Speakers’ Corner in London was where suffragettes met to debate the laws and rights of the day. This was the intention for women who congregated there on 13 September to be directed to a meeting to discuss the impact of proposed legislation on gender identity. | Speakers’ Corner in London was where suffragettes met to debate the laws and rights of the day. This was the intention for women who congregated there on 13 September to be directed to a meeting to discuss the impact of proposed legislation on gender identity. |
| The venue could not be advertised because the original one, a community meeting space, had been intimidated into cancelling the booking. Transgender activists who opposed the debate taking place instigated a campaign to shut it down, which led to the attack on 60-year-old Maria MacLachlan by multiple assailants. Her camera was smashed, her hand cut, and her face and neck bruised. | The venue could not be advertised because the original one, a community meeting space, had been intimidated into cancelling the booking. Transgender activists who opposed the debate taking place instigated a campaign to shut it down, which led to the attack on 60-year-old Maria MacLachlan by multiple assailants. Her camera was smashed, her hand cut, and her face and neck bruised. |
| Attempts to minimise or justify this violence from those who sympathise with the cause these protestors claimed to support are deeply worrying. Some members of the trans community have expressed their revulsion at the actions of this violent vanguard. Others, perhaps intimidated from speaking out for fear of being ostracised, must find their voice if there is to be reasoned discussion of legislation that affects us all. | Attempts to minimise or justify this violence from those who sympathise with the cause these protestors claimed to support are deeply worrying. Some members of the trans community have expressed their revulsion at the actions of this violent vanguard. Others, perhaps intimidated from speaking out for fear of being ostracised, must find their voice if there is to be reasoned discussion of legislation that affects us all. |
| Women have a right to free association and assembly. Politically motivated violence aimed at silencing women and shutting us out of political discussion will not succeed.Linda BellosLucy Masoud FBU LGBT London secretaryProf Deborah Cameron University of OxfordHelen SteelKaren Ingala Smith Chief executive officer, NIAGemma Aitchison Founder, YES MattersBea CampbellNaomi Fearon Deputy general secretary, Socialist Educational AssociationRahila GuptaEllenor HutsonRebecca LushRachel Moran Founder, SPACE internationalMargaret Prosser Labour, House of LordsYasmin RehmanJudith JonesRuth Serwotka Convenor, Socialist Feminist NetworkSam Smethers Chief executive, Fawcett SocietyDr Mary-Ann Stephenson Co-director, Women’s Budget GroupDr Eva Neitzert Co-director, Women’s Budget GroupKiri Tunks Convenor, Socialist Feminist NetworkDr Jennifer WilkesHarriet Wistrich Founder, Centre for Women’s JusticeVictoria Brittain | Women have a right to free association and assembly. Politically motivated violence aimed at silencing women and shutting us out of political discussion will not succeed.Linda BellosLucy Masoud FBU LGBT London secretaryProf Deborah Cameron University of OxfordHelen SteelKaren Ingala Smith Chief executive officer, NIAGemma Aitchison Founder, YES MattersBea CampbellNaomi Fearon Deputy general secretary, Socialist Educational AssociationRahila GuptaEllenor HutsonRebecca LushRachel Moran Founder, SPACE internationalMargaret Prosser Labour, House of LordsYasmin RehmanJudith JonesRuth Serwotka Convenor, Socialist Feminist NetworkSam Smethers Chief executive, Fawcett SocietyDr Mary-Ann Stephenson Co-director, Women’s Budget GroupDr Eva Neitzert Co-director, Women’s Budget GroupKiri Tunks Convenor, Socialist Feminist NetworkDr Jennifer WilkesHarriet Wistrich Founder, Centre for Women’s JusticeVictoria Brittain |
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