Smoke bombs and leather bound penises on display

Now there's a headline I thought neither I or anyone else would write to be honest. Yet here we are examing what happned when a meeting of (mostly) women was held over the threats to expel members for defending women's righrs on the grounds these views are somehow "transphobic"

The Morning Star Reported:

Activists accusing the meeting of transphobia gathered outside the Maxilla Social Club to picket the event, which was called in response to the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights’s demand that members of Woman's Place UK and the LGB Alliance, which it referred to as transphobic hate groups, be expelled from the Labour Party.

The organisations both reject accusations of transphobia. Woman’s Place says it organises to protect women’s sex-based rights and women’s right to organise and discuss issues that affect them.

Protest co-organisers London Bi Pandas said their picket was “a much-needed moment of trans+ solidarity in a landscape of rising violence against trans+ and non-binary people.”

But attendees accused protesters of hurling abusive language in a bid to intimidate them – and condemned the release of “smoke bombs” round the corner from Grenfell Tower.

The community hall is immediately surrounded by tributes and murals to the 72 people who died in the 2017 tower block fire.

Trade unionist and former firefighter Lucy Masoud, who addressed the Labour Women's Declaration Meeting, said that the 300 attendees, mainly women, could smell sulphur from inside.

Justice for Grenfell spokeswoman Moira Samuels, who passed by the meeting, got “a whole lot of abuse” when she challenged protesters over the smoke, Ms Masoud said.

Although the group "apologised" for the smoke bombs and their "insensitivity" the use of smoke bombs is both an illegal and violent act against women peacefully meeting to discuss issue that they see as effecting the. If anything the aggressive behaviour of the trans-activists and their allies proves there are issues to discuss but that's not the only problem.

Ruth Serwotka tweeted about one of the protesters manner of dress:

These trans individuals want to be treated as if they are women yet behave in this manner which frankly would be condemned by the vast majority of men. let alone women.

The threat of violence is ever present as this t-shirt illustrates and if you think this is an isolated incident just check out this collection of tweets collated by women's activists: terfisaslur.com

It's no wonder so many women raise concerns about the need for women's sex based rights. Not sure I'd want to be around these individuals either. Their behaviour is unacceptable on so many levels.