Bristol "Unsavouries" stand proud!

The new name for Terfs, courtesy of Transactivists and Bristol Anarchists!

Yours truly, Radical Cartoons (wearing my “Deep State Operative” t-shirt), with coppers on College Green, Bristol, at Let Women Speak yesterday.

Women's Rights Activists in Terf Island have a new nickname - “The Unsavouries"!

Courtesy of Transactivists (TRAs) and Bristol Anarchists, who posted on their Facebook page: “Posy Parker attracts unsavoury people"!

Well, compared to; “TerfWitchCuntNaziHomophobeRightWingBitchTransphobe”, “Unsavouries” is quite sweet!

In my short speech at Bristol yesterday, I said : “ A new insult, let's own it! “The Unsavouries", it's a great new t-shirt slogan!

It worked out well for “The Deplorables” in America”!

Here's the full event, the sound is quite poor. Kellie-Jay is the clearest, but she was a singer at school (still is) and knows how to project her voice with a microphone - a skill most of us have never had the chance to develop.

Also in my speech, I said: “Bristol police are making a statement today”.

They certainly did. In our organising talks with them over the preceding 3 weeks, they made it clear that they were going to throw everything including the kitchen sink at this one.

Some of us are veterans of Bristol 2022 (still called “Standing for Women" back then), which can politely be described as “chaos". The Police were determined those mistakes would not be repeated.

Here's Alf Up A Tree's excellent film of that event:

The police held more than one on-site pre-event meeting, and started their main operation at around 9am on Sunday 13 April. Vans, cars, horses and drones, plus numerous police of all ranks.

Here's a good idea of the policing, from TyrantFinder. (Wesley Winter was there too, and other youtubers and indie reporters). Notice how most male youtubers make it all about them!

To those of us who live in Bristol, this was the biggest police operation near the centre since the “Kill the Bill" riots outside the cop shop in 2021; a deliberate pun by the Anarchists - a direct call to attack the police, “the old bill", in English slang.

Here's the BBC's story of those riots: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-56477887

We were opposed yesterday by the “usual suspects” - overwhelmingly white and privileged: students, anarchists and transactivists; being organised by Bristol Anarchists Federation and Bristol Antifa (except we call them INFANTifa here in Terf Island).

Masks and Keffiyehs over faces were in evidence: these deluded children are ok with cultural appropriation when it's THEM doing it!

But interestingly, we didn't see Palestinian or trade union flags. That lot had held their protest the day before, outside the BBC, so maybe they’d all gone off for their Easter hols!

Here's their poster for their event:

As a marshal yesterday, (and co-organiser of Bristol Region Let Women Speak), I had been involved for 3 weeks previously, planning the location.

I saw my main job as keeping women who wanted to attend safe, especially disabled women, who often attend LWS. I argued in favour of the location because of the circle of benches, so attendees could sit down.

I met up with local women around 10.30 Sunday morning. At College Green we met the two Policewomen who had been assigned to us all day. They liaised with us throughout, and were extremely helpful.

Amusingly, it was Palm Sunday - the service at the Cathedral was just finishing, and a real Donkey was being led out of the Cathedral, back to it's trailer! “Is that one of yours”? we asked them, knowing we were getting police horses for the event!

From Bristol Cathedral’s Facebook:

As you can see from my photo at the top, police surrounded us, and formed a cordon in front of the opposition.

Everything went smoothly. Our attendees felt completely safe, which can't be said for previous LWS rallies in other cities in the last few years.

(And I'm told the after-party at the pub was a great success)!

If I have one criticism, it's that the overwhelming police presence made the public scared to walk through the site (which they were allowed to do), but we still managed to hand out some leaflets to them at the two entrances. The most receptive were foreign tourists, which I've also noticed at the monthly LWS at Reformers Tree.

When I explained that the reason for the huge police operation was to keep women safe, who were meeting to talk about defending their rights, they were amazed and impressed!

I personally know women who are afraid to attend LWS rallies, for fear of cancel-culture. They genuinely fear (and they good reason, there are plenty of examples) losing their livelihoods if they are seen or filmed at a “gender-critical” event.

The women who got up and spoke, knowing they were being live-streamed, with their faces uncovered, are the bravest of us. (It's often said, “Terf is the new Punk" - except going to a Sex Pistols gig probably wouldn't have got you fired from your job).

So every one of our approx 100 attendees represented countless others who cannot turn up and stand with us.

Thanks to our American cousins, and President Trump, sanity is returning. They now have the political will to push back the anti-women policies of the Biden administration.

But the lunacy of trans-ideology is deeply entrenched and will take years to root out, to say nothing of compensation for its victims.

We've come a long way, thanks in large part to Kellie-Jay Keen, who realised early on that we should copy the Suffragettes, with their slogan,“Deeds Not Words". Here's our Bristol Region LWS banner:

Just remember that even 2 years ago, there is no way local news media in Bristol - which I call “The Armpit of Woke" - could have published our campaigning slogan, their editorial stance was entirely pro-trans-ideology.

Thanks to all our attendees yesterday, and Avon & Somerset police, particularly Simon, Kat, and Katie, for giving us Bristol “Unsavouries ” “A Grand Day Out”!

PS - join Party of Women, Let Women Speak, and the Free Speech Union!

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