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.”
Aleks Kovacevic, 44, was allegedly’manhandled’ by a mob near Manchester’s Emmeline Pankhurst statue in St Peter’s Square.
The altercation lasted about a minute, according to the feminist, and she was forced 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.
In May, footage of her getting struck in Manchester’s St Ann’s Square in March surfaced, though trans campaigners accused Aleks of kicking a trans woman and insistent on calling her a man.
JK Rowling praised her after the Pankhurst stand-off, saying on Twitter, ‘I never anticipated the right side of history to include so many people in masks threatening and attacking women, did you?’ But she never took down her flag. Emmeline would be overjoyed.’