When 'Visibility' Becomes Violence
Although you’d be forgiven for assuming it is year-round, Friday 31st March was the International Trans Day of Visibility. Rallies were held across the US and Canada to mark the occasion, but two such events were more about violence than visibility.
In Los Angeles, gender zealots organised a ‘trans day of vengeance’ and shut down the busy intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland, preventing traffic from using the roads for about an hour.
Protesters chanted “If we don’t get it, shut it down” and held aloft signs threatening ‘violent revolution’ and bearing slogans such as ‘arm trans women’.
They surrounded vehicles.
And menaced their drivers.
They marched along Hollywood Boulevard to the police station with their ‘list of demands’.
Storm Robinson attended the rally, reporting his observations on Twitter. As ever, the protesters, most of whom were masked, were not keen to be captured on camera. At one point trans activists surrounded and tried to intimidate Robinson, getting in his face and dogging his steps wherever he walked.
They prevented him from filming by pushing open umbrellas into his face at certain points.
When Robinson tried to leave the rally, he was surrounded and physically detained in the middle of a crossroads by a gang of aggressive trans activists. One of them barred his path with a bicycle while numerous others hemmed him in for around ten minutes.
Meanwhile, over in Canada, trans activists attacked a man who was protesting the prescribing of puberty blockers to children.
Chris Elston, known as ‘Billboard Chris’, is the father of two daughters and a prominent child protection activist. He campaigns against the prescribing of puberty blockers to minors.
This week he was physically assaulted on two separate occasions by trans activists at an International Transgender Day of Visibility rally in Vancouver.
The first assault was filmed by citizen journalist, Dan Dicks.
Within moments of his arrival, Chris Elston was mobbed and surrounded by a gang of aggressive male trans activists, most of whom were masked. One of them lunged at him, seemingly in an attempt to grab his phone which he was using to film the rally. When Elston took a few steps back from the mob, the same masked activist lunged at him again.
In the footage filmed by Elston himself, the attacker can be seen jabbing his hand in Elston’s face.
Elston then noticed that his nose was scratched and bleeding.
The aggression of the trans activists continued and they can be seen in this video footage surrounding and intimidating Elston, chanting “Go home” at him. One of the activists wearing camouflage then lunged at a man who was there to support Elston, throwing him to the floor. This incident caused the assembled trans activists to laugh and jeer, chanting “You got your ass kicked” at the man.
In footage of the incident taken by Elston, his supporter can be seen trying to engage two Vancouver police officers, asking them to take action over his being assaulted. They both ignored him. In the same video, a large, trans-identified male with long blond hair is demonstrating extreme aggression, waving his trans pride and rainbow flags inches from Elston’s face and shouting “Fuck you! Fuck you!” repeatedly at him.
This ‘enraged and completely unhinged’ male was responsible for the second violent assault on Elston.
While he was being interviewed on camera by Dan Dicks, Elston was surrounded by hostile trans activists who were jeering and yelling insults. The blond trans-identified male in particular crowded Elston, moving extremely close to him and shouting “Fuck you!” repeatedly in his face.
Footage shot by Elston himself demonstrates just how close this aggressive trans-identified male was to him.
The blond male then charged at Elston, punching him, grabbing him by the throat and throwing him to the ground.
When Elston asked Vancouver police officers to take action and locate the perpetrator who had assaulted him, they refused to act, even after seeing the footage of the attack.
When Elston tried to report his first assault to one particular officer, she refused to act and insinuated that he had injured himself.
The same officer appears to have been looking on and grinning during Elston’s second assault.
She later tried to claim that Elston was ‘inciting violence’ by displaying his signs (one of which reads “Dad a human male who protects his kids from gender ideology” and another which reads “Children cannot consent to puberty blockers”).
She also said that this second violent assault was a ‘consensual fight’ and claimed that Elston had been ‘getting in people’s faces’.
However, her claim really doesn’t stand up against the video evidence.
A second police officer also refused to take any action, claiming that Elston was being ‘confrontational’.
In a video clip recorded immediately after the rally, Elston has two obvious injuries: bleeding scratches on his neck and his nose.
Elston told Rebel News, “My neck is scraped, my nose is cut, I have a bit of a bruise and tenderness on my right cheekbone from a punch during that second assault and my back is spasming”.
This is not the first time Elston has been attacked by trans activists. He estimates that he has been assaulted around twenty times while protesting the unnecessary medicalisation of vulnerable children. In March 2021, while campaigning peacefully on a Montreal street, he was attacked by masked thugs who stole his billboard and his camera, punched him in the face and head and broke his arm.
In the footage of the incident, you can hear one of the attackers shout “Transphobes fuck off!” at him.
Right before they did this.
Is this visibility or violence?
Police are not upholding the law around male supremacist violence … whether the men are rapists, domestic abusers or trans activists, there is a visible bias now in the police and judicial response to male violence against womens rights
Those police officers are a disgrace.