Their legs were grabbed
The Times on that Edinburgh “protest”:
Attendees of a book launch about gender politics at Edinburgh University have described being intimidated and “assaulted” by trans rights demonstrators. About 70 people answered calls from the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) to demonstrate against the publication of Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader, claiming that the book is transphobic.
The activists attempted to block access to the launch venue, a lecture theatre at the foot of 40 George Square, the building formerly known as David Hume Tower. Protesters chanted “shame on you” at each person who entered the building, as well as “trans rights are human rights”. They also held rainbow placards.
Marion Calder, a director of the campaign group For Women Scotland, said that some demonstrators, sitting on the ground by a security barrier, had attempted to prevent people entering the building. “Women who came along for a book were crying because their legs were being grabbed by people as they tried to get by the barrier,” Calder said. “It’s incredible to think you can be assaulted at a book launch.”
It’s all too credible in Edinburgh though.
The accusation of transphobia is described as libellous by the book’s editors, Alice Sullivan and Selina Todd, both distinguished academics.
They’re distinguished Karens amirite?
If nothing else, the trans allies movement has provided cover for the misogynists who consider themselves progressive to come out of the closet after
20 years(after trying to figure out a timeframe to enter here, I realized that they were never really in the closet, were they? But now they get cookies for it.)This “support for trans rights” must surely baffle the gay rights campaigners from the recent past who wonder why there was not such raucous support for their causes in the 1990s when they were marching nearly alone for AIDS research funding. Where were the anti-fascists then screaming and calling the NHS directors or the US Department of Health officials “NAZIs” and grabbing their legs?