A huge and inspiring Trans Liberation demonstration in London yesterday, with more than 20,000 people coming together at short notice following the Supreme Court ruling this week that trans women could not be treated as women in law or, more specifically, that “A person with a Gender Recognition Certificate in the female gender does not come within the definition of a ‘woman’ under the Equality Act 2010'. This opens the way to the exclusion of trans women from 'single sex' spaces such as women's toilets (actually it would also apply the other way round to trans men)
The demonstration started in Parliament Square but soon overspilled it as there wasn't room for the growing crowd.
It finished with speeches in a crowded St James Park (the first time I've been in a demo in this Royal Park).
Along the way there was a river of creative signs and chants, plus a little mobile sound system pumping out gabber and drum & bass. Anyone who thinks that the Supreme Court represents any kind of final settlement of this issue can forget it. Things are just getting started...
see previously: In defence of Billy Bragg and trans rights
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