Shut it down or else
Attempt to cancel women fails:
TRANS rights activists have lost a battle to cancel a conference they claimed was transphobic after the venue was threatened with legal action.
Glasgow Trans Rally launched an unsuccessful campaign to have [the] Glasgow venue [called] Platform ditch an event planned to go ahead by FiLiA, a gender-critical feminist charity.
FiLiA said Platform, in the former site of The Arches nightclub, had initially caved in to pressure and cancelled until they were threatened with legal action and reinstated the event.
You want pressure? We’ll give you pressure. See this contract?
Organisers hailed the outcome as a victory for “freedom of speech”.
Confirmed speakers at the event include SNP politicians Ruth Maguire and Joanna Cherry, who expressed reservations about the Scottish Government’s blocked transgender law reforms, as well as Scottish poet Jenny Lindsay, who experienced an online pile-on when she raised concerns about an article advocating for violence against trans-exclusionary radical feminists.
Yeah, gee, what a bitch, saying let’s not batter women who have the audacity to organize as women without any help interference from men.
Speakers will include a long list of international feminist campaigners, including anti-violence against women campaigners, female healthcare campaigners and academics.
We can’t have that, now can we.
What “glasgow_trans_rally” said:
This weekend (13th-15th of October) a transphobic ‘women’s rights’ conference will be held at platform_gla.
Prominent transphobes such as J*anna Ch*rry and J*lie B*ndel will be speaking, amongst many many others.
These “transphobes” are so demonic that it’s necessary to bleep out two letters in each of their names, to avoid The Curse Of The Tits-having Dragon.
STAND WITH US in telling platform_gla that Glasgow DOES NOT ACCEPT THIS and that they MUST DROP THE EVENT
Not bossy at all, are they.
Rather populist isn’t it? I, the great random Twitter shit, speak on behalf of all Glasgow, a city well renowned for its tolerance and definitely not its macho hooligans.
I know a guy who works for a liquor store. He said he was really looking forward to sitting in the corner of a Glasgow pub with his book and a single malt. His boss, from Scotland, said ‘are you trying to get beaten up?’
What, they’re trying to cancel Filia? It’s the most ‘serious’ feminist conference on the calendar, and as you say draws a global high-profile set of speakers and attendees. I’ve been a few times, but am not going this year. Last year (?) it had some lackluster TRA ‘protesters’, supported by Amnesty International which provided ready-made signs saying things like ‘believe people when they tell you who they are’; they hung out in front of the venue and drew obscene and threatening words and images on chalk on the sidewalk, which stewards covered up out of respect for the dead during a memorial service for murdered women.
Sometimes, when faced with such ignorant hate, all there is to do is dance:
https://x.com/SarahSurviving/status/1712767239219282195?s=20