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Queer womens group wears clown noses while disrupting transphobic lesbian group
Queer women wearing clownish red noses disrupted a transphobic groups event at Englands University College London, chanting to the attendees, Youre not feminists, youre all clowns! and When trans dykes are under attack, what do we do? Fight back!The transphobic group, The Lesbian Project, says that it represent[s] the rights and interests of lesbians in the UK [and] highlights and champions the experiences, insights and sensibilities of lesbians in all their diversity. However, Pink News reports that the group mostly claims that lesbians are being silenced and erased from society by trans people and minor-attracted persons (pedophiles) in the rainbow coalition. To be clear, pedophiles are not a part of the LGBTQ+ community acronym, despite claims to the contrary by social conservatives and anti-LGBTQ+ groups. Related 15 lesbian icons everyone needs to know Check them out below, seek out their work, and make sure you raise a toast to salute them this week. The Dyke Project today took action against a meeting of the Lesbian Project who want to segregate and erase trans people, The Dyke Project wrote on Instagram alongside a video of the June 25 event protest. Insights for the LGBTQ+ community Subscribe to our briefing for insights into how politics impacts the LGBTQ+ community and more. Subscribe to our Newsletter today The video shows a woman wearing a red clown nose, waving a small ribbon on a string, and skipping around a crowded meeting room at the University College London while attendees chase her around the room. Other protestors and attendees scream at each other as security officers enter the room to try and chase out the Dyke Project members.In the videos caption, The Dyke Project wrote, The Dyke Project will never let trans people be banned from using toilets, playing sport or getting changed in our name. A LOAD OF CLOWNS: The EHRC and their supporters are trying to push through guidance that is absurd and unworkable. Its silly they are the real clowns! We say: no womens liberation without trans liberation. No L without the T. View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Dyke Project (@thedykeproject)The group also criticized The Lesbian Project and other transphobic gay women who have celebrated the U.K. Supreme Courts recent ruling that trans women should not be legally considered women under the countrys Equality Act and the U.K.s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) recent interimguidanceon the ruling, stating that trans people should not be permitted to use the facilities that aligns with their gender.We say: LESBIANS AGAINST THE EHRC. Those who cheer on the Supreme Court ruling and the EHRC guidance will be challenged, The Dyke Project wrote in its Instagram post.The group told Pink News, Were here to show that dykes are thriving, they said. Were a joyful and inclusive community and we wont allow our trans siblings to be erased and excluded. Trans lesbians are lesbians, we are one community.Trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) claim that womens spaces and rights are being taken over by trans women who are pretending to be women. Their rhetoric echoes that of transphobic conservative groups who claim that trans women are a threat to girls and women. These groups have largely supported anti-trans policies while ignoring other policies that would actually protect gender-based civil rights and gender equity.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.
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