As tensions between the two groups erupted again today in Bristol, feminists claimed that balaclava-clad trans rights activists’silenced’ them.
While women’s rights advocates presented a talk in honor of Father’s Day in College Green, a crowd clad all in black screamed “trans rights are human rights.”
During the altercation, anarchists were seen assaulting cops and women, while another person raised a banner that said TERFs, or gender critical women, should’suck my d***.’
Another individual was observed writing on the ground, ‘TERFs are next after Colston.’
In 2020, anti-racism activists in Bristol threw the statue of slave trader Edward Colston into the river.
Bristol Anarchist Federation celebrated that it disrupted and silenced the Standing for Women gathering by also singing Wonderwall and All Star.
The news comes after a similar balaclava-clad gang of trans activists ‘manhandled’ a feminist next to a statue of a suffragette in Manchester earlier this year.
A man, dressed in black and with his face hidden, is seen shouting at feminists in Bristol today with a megaphone.
While the feminists strain to be heard over the din, he screams at them that they are “the oppressors” who are “taking people’s rights away.”
‘Absolutely horrible intimidation of women in Bristol this afternoon, with [us] requiring a police escort while [trans rights activists] yell abuse and harass peaceful demonstrators,’ the Wales Women’s Rights Network tweeted. We are not going to be silenced.’
They also say that a “angry man with a megaphone attempted to drown out a young, black autistic woman.”
Anarchists are later heard asking feminists to “get out of the city” in another video.
The women who were present, including blogger and feminist organiser Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull from Standing for XX, were blamed by the Bristol Anarchist Federation.
‘Awesome crowd assembled!’ they wrote on Twitter. Wraps, cake, music, flags, and banners are all provided for free.
And he summoned supporters to College Green to “oppose” supposed “transphobes.”
Standing for XX also tweeted videos of their demonstrators waving posters that said “woman” means “mature human female” and demanded that women no longer be “erased.”
They also referred to the trans activists as a “cult” that is attempting to “bully and scare women into silence.”
The women’s rights group claimed that after the protest, they went to a pub in Bristol where police were visible in footage guarding the entry.
Today in Bristol city centre, huge roars erupted as two groups of demonstrators – nude cyclists and activists – met.
At 11.30 a.m., the World Naked Bike Ride left the Full Moon pub near Cabot Circus to protest for a better environment, safer cycling, and to celebrate body freedom.
However, the bike ride passed College Green where 60 people from Standing for Women was gathered.
A larger group of around 100 trans rights activists, also staged a counter-rally in the same place, BristolLive reported.
This year, Aleks Kovacevic, 44, was allegedly’manhandled’ by a gang near Manchester’s Emmeline Pankhurst statue in St Peter’s Square.
The altercation lasted about a minute, according to the feminist, and she was shoved against a wall by a group of males, or trans men, who also grabbed her arms while she waved her purple, white, and green suffragette flag.
Although trans activists accused Aleks of kicking a trans woman and insisted on calling her a male, film of her being attacked in St Ann’s Square, Manchester, in March surfaced in May.
JK Rowling praised Pankhurst after the stand-off, saying on Twitter: ‘I never expected the right side of history to contain so many people in masks threatening and attacking women, did you?’ She, on the other hand, never let go of her flag. ‘Emmeline would be ecstatic.’