#violent transphobia

I hate this country

I hate people wanting to wipe trans people from existence. I just want to live.

I dont want to live the rest of my life in the closet. I dont want to die

But every single day I see my trans siblings called groomers and pedos. They are getting killed and its only getting worse.

I absolutely cannot STAND TERFS. I hope they all BURN

this is really venty and Im sorry but I just had to say it

I watched it a few days ago on a youtube channel a reddit user hosted, a version copied from the original uploader’s video (which has since been removed) but they took it down when terfs started using it to doxx the trans women in the video. 

I wasn’t mindful enough to take screencaps when I was watching, or to DL the video for my own, but there’s a still-shot here that is iirc a few seconds after the headlock, showing the terf (middle) grabbing and wrestling one of the counter-protesters (leftmost, blurry because she’s trying to get free of her grip)

The progression of events was, last I recall:

1. Trans counter protesters chanting and holding signs arrive on scene

2. TERF approaches with a camera and aggressively tries to photograph their faces.

3. Some counter-protesters use signs to try and block her ability to take their pictures. 

4. In turn, the TERF shoves her way forward and around/over the signs to try and get shots of their faces.

5. One of the counter protesters goes to shove or hit her after it’s clear she’s not leaving them alone, but another counter-protester uses a sign to block the attack and get in the way.

6. One of the counter protesters grabs the TERF’s camera.

7. TERF wrestles her and puts her in a headlock

8. Camera is thrown to the ground and damaged.

9. TERF continues to hold the counter protester in a headlock. When she escapes it, the TERF grabs her from behind and keeps trying to wrestle her.

10. Trans woman who had attempted to shove/hit TERF before arrives and punches the TERF in the head. Then flees once the wrestled counter-protester is free and safe.

Like, sure, whatever, there was some property damage initially. A camera is not a person, though. I doubt anyone involved would deny that they took the woman’s camera and broke it. That’s just a fact. I’m no expert on british law, but I would imagine there would be a distinguishable difference between pushing/shoving another person, and the theft/destruction of property. Past that, I doubt there’d be a difference between wrestling a stranger into a headlock and punching another person. They’re both exertions of violent force upon another person. 

The TERF was the one to initiate blatant physical contact first by putting the counter-protester in a headlock. If you’re going to assault some counter-protesters who you’re clearly opposed to, who you have systemic power over, simply because they’re doing what they can to limit that TERF’s ability to wield systemic power agaisnt them, then chances are decent that they’re going to fight back and defend their own. Which is exactly what happened. Had that TERF remained at a solid distance and took photos, this wouldn’t have happened. It was because she got in their faces when her doxxing attempts were impeded, and pushed and shoved them to try and get what she wanted, and made herself a clear threat to their safety, and then followed that up with a blatant physical assault?

Yeah, there’s no getting around that. She was the one that instigated the violence. There’s no punch without that headlock, without her shoving her way up against the pro-trans protesters who were trying to hide their identities.

I was on Twitter this morning and I find all over my timeline that a young trans girl, Brianna Ghey, had meen murdered. One of the first related images I see had the text "2007-2023". She was just a few months older than me. I see things like that from time-to-time-- trans people dying --but I've never seen it be someone my age.

I haven’t really kept up with all the details since. I was under the impression that the counter protester who grabbed and smashed the camera, the one who got wrestled, was an afab non-binary person, but lots of details were hazy, and it was freshly happened, so that certainly could be the case (or they could both be afab nb folks, too). We know a TERF got punched by someone who is trans/nb, or a pro-trans/nb ally.