Trans rights activists The decision of the Supreme Court On the definition of a woman.
Thousands of demonstrators marched in central London on Saturday in an “emergency demonstration”.
Drapes in blue, pink and white, they sang calls for trans liberation, blocked traffic and retained the signs that read “no feminism without trans women” and “biology is not binary”.
At least two statues on the place of Parliament were due to graffiti during the rally, with “F” and a heart painted on the banner held by The suffragistAnd “trans rights are human rights” sprayed on the pedestal with a memorial to the South African military chief and statesman Jan Christian Smuts.
A statue of the Suffragist Millicent Fawcett was degraded during demonstrations of trans rights on Saturday – Andrew Matthews / PA
Joanna Cherry KC, a former SNP deputy who opposed the Party trans policy, said the activists had shown a terrible “misogyny”.
She posted on X: “Anyone who doubts the appalling misogyny of trans activists only need to look at this evidence. The servants should hang their heads.”
Fawcett campaigned tirelessly from a young age to get the women's vote. In 1866, when she was 19 years old, she helped collect signatures for the first suffrage petition.
It was involved in the push of women's votes for more than five decades and led the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, although its commitment to peaceful tactics has led to a split between its moderate movement and the most radical suffrages.
Fawcett has also campaigned for women's rights in many other areas, including access to university. She died in 1929, a year after women have reached full equality in the polls.
The statue was unveiled in 2018 during a ceremony attended by the mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Theresa May, who was then Prime Minister.
Mr. Khan posted at the time on X, then known as Twitter, that “his heritage as a champion of female suffrage 100 years ago is an important recall of work which must still be made to achieve real gender equality”.
Activists of Trans Rights in Parliament Square
Group of feminist campaign for Women Scotland, who raised the Supreme Court affair against the Scottish government, criticized the degradation of the statue of Fawcett.
The group published on X: “Without a doubt, the organization that bears its name will condemn this”.
The position referred to the Fawcett Society, a charitable organization campaigning for gender equality and women's rights, of which Harrient Harman work peer is president.
The Fawcett Society and Baroness Harman were contacted for comments.
Protection of Single Sex Spaces became a very contested question during the debate.
Wednesday's decision said that if a space or service is only designated as women, a person born, but who identifies himself as a woman, has no right to use this space or this service, which has led many public organizations to examine their gender policies.
The demonstrators during the walk argued that it was hardly more than a distraction and had much to do with female security.
Earlier in the afternoon, before the statues were vandalized, Mijke Van Der Drift, tutor at the Royal College of Art, “said:” The spaces are sure if you have good practices against violence.
“CIS women can be very violent, but they can also be our allies, friends and lovers. But if you want safe spaces, you must have anti-violent practices.
“Because honestly, people are violated by their uncles, are violated by family members by their ex. Women are murdered by their ex-partner. They are not murdered by unknown trans women. ”
