Feminists Attacked At Portsmouth RTS Protest

Reclaiming These Streets... For Violent Males

On Saturday afternoon Reclaim These Streets organised an event in Portsmouth to protest male violence against women and campaign for female safety.

Two young feminists taking part in this protest were threatened, taunted and even physically attacked by some of those in attendance.

One posted this on her Facebook page after the event:

The two extremely brave young women stood on the Guildhall steps, holding a flag on which was written the dictionary definition of the word ‘woman’. Adult human female.

For this they were vilified and assaulted and the crowd jeered at them.

When the women were eventually forced from the steps, the crowd taunted them, made threatening gestures and shouted “Fuck off, c*nt!” as they walked away.

Adult Human Female @GenderCriticle

This is what happens when you fly a flag with the definition of woman on at a protest for male violence against women.

We spoke to Chinzia, one of the two women involved. She told us:

“We pulled a stunt to show what is being destroyed, our female sex, our meaning. They charged towards us on the guildhall steps, we were pushed, shoved, while we clung for dear life to the meaning of what we are. I shouted ‘The definition of what a woman is is in our curriculum’. They shouted back, ‘White supremacy is in our schools’.

Councillor Claire Udy encouraged the crowd to shout ‘Terf scum out!’. The crowd did not find it chilling to see men aggressive towards women at a protest against male violence. Young feminists applauded this moment".

Incidentally, the Claire Udy to whom Chinzia refers is an independent councillor for Portsmouth’s Charles Dickens ward and a vociferous ‘trans ally’. She describes herself as ‘queer’, used to advertise a link to Pornhub in her Twitter bio and parted company with the Labour Party after being caught out making anti-Semitic comments.

She seems to think that women’s sex-based rights are ‘anti-trans’.

And uses misogynistic slurs on her Facebook profile.

Feminist, lesbian and survivor, Sally Jackson, was also harassed and bullied at the Portsmouth event, seemingly also at the instigation of Claire Udy. The crowed chanted at her and she was called a TERF. After intervention by Udy, she was told by a steward that she may not be able to speak because the organisation she represents (Filia, a group with charitable status which campaigns for women’s rights) is ‘transphobic’.

In this footage posted by Filia, you can hear how many of the aggressive, threatening voices belong to men.

FiLiA @FiLiA_charity

This is where 'inclusivity' gets you...survivor, #Lesbian and volunteer with FiLiA jeered and yelled at 'f*ck off T*RF' at #Portsmouth protest (against Violence against Women) @ReclaimTS we call on you to condemn this abuse of Women as a matter of urgency #RECLAIMTHESESTREETS

Filia has called on the organisers of Reclaim These Streets to condemn the attacks on women at their Portsmouth event. The RTS silence is deafening. But not surprising.

Imagine the cognitive dissonance of attending an event to protest male violence against women and then physically attacking, or cheering the attack of, two young women taking part.

How on earth do these people expect to make society safer for women if they don’t even know what a woman is?

As Chinzia told us:

“They are lost, denial of biology, the understanding of what we are, acceptance of male aggression, the work by past suffragettes/feminists, all gone. We have to fight all over again for our female rights.”