The War against Women

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/22/trans-activists-death-threat-placards-reviewed-by-police/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14638683/Police-investigate-trans-activist-death-threat-signs.html

For all that I am not a fan of the Daily Mail or the Telegraph, the photos taken at the Trans protest against the Court decision on biological women and the Equality Law stands for itself.

The Met originally saw the pictures and reviewed them (not very well, it turned out) and said the the images and signs were from 'historic events, and did not take place in London. But the Telegraph was able to supply proof (probably the clear up operation) - clear unambiguous evidence that the signs were present during the protest on Saturday.

Statues were daubed with graffiti. And ironically, astatue of the suffragette Millicent Fawcett was defaced with a banner reading 'F** rights'. Millicent Fawcett was a pioneer for women's rights and led the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) and advocated for women's rights through peaceful, non-violent methods, including lobbying and public speaking. Other defaced statues included those of Jan Christian Smuts, Nelson Mandela, Sir Robert Peel, Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Derby and Viscount Palmerston.

A number of activists were pictured holding signs threatening violence towards 'TERFS' - including disturbing images of people being stabbed and hanged. While most held up placards fighting for trans rights, two large signs spotted at the rally showed an illustration of hangman alongside the words 'The only good TERF is a .... TERF'.

[The term 'TERF' is an abusive acronym used to describe people whose views on gender identity are seen as hostile towards transgender people.]

Meanwhile, another sign showed an image of a man with a bloodied knife stuck in his eye, alongside the caption: 'Are you a... transphobe? Why not try a... D.I.Y. LOBOTOMY.'

This is violent aggressive and abusive behaviour. It is an ugly fanatical war against the biological rights of women. Up to this point, with aggressive, bullying behaviour - mostly online with emails etc, but also some student protests - anyone declaring biological sex is a reality (as Lord Winston did on Question Time) - is branded a transphobic hater, and people have been cancelled, hounded out of jobs, in a manner that I find akin to religious fanaticism of the past, where anyone differing from a fixed orthodoxy was deemed a heretic. 

And this surge of hatred, including death threats, has been condoned by politicians. In Jersey, fear of reprisals and loss of jobs have silenced teachers making any protest on what has been imposed on them to teach. Any discussion of the matter has been attempted to be shut down. And some of our own politicians also to their shame, condone this removal of rational and scientific debate.

J.K. Rowling on the War Against Women

Women have fought (and are still fighting) the single biggest land grab on their rights in my lifetime. Some have sacrificed their livelihoods and safety to combat a pernicious ideology that has infiltrated elite institutions, including government.

 
Women have been persecuted, harassed, smeared, roughed up and forced to take employers to court for discrimination. They've suffered severe detriments purely for believing what the Supreme Court has ruled to be reasonable and correct: that women are a definable biological class that has specific rights under the law to which males, however they identify, are not entitled. 

Do these politicians have any shame? They sided with the persecutors, the issuers of death and rape threats, the violent men demanding access to women's and girls' protected spaces, including domestic abuse shelters, rape crisis centres and prison cells. 

Will any of them issue an apology or admit that they made a serious error in siding with well-funded activist groups lying about what the law actually said, and which had measurable, severe impact on some of society's most vulnerable women? 

As another public wave of death threats is issued against women because of the Supreme Court ruling, their silence has become deafening. I'm just one of millions of women disgusted by the lack of accountability or remorse. We will not forget.