2018 Speakers' Corner attack
About
The 2018 Speakers' Corner attack took place on 2017-09-13 in Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park, London, UK. 60-year-old feminist blogger Maria MacLachlan (MM) was attacked by one or more others involved in protest against a meeting that MM was planning to attend. Transgender woman Tara Wolf (TW) was eventually convicted of the attack, though it is unclear whether she was solely responsible.
MM repeatedly insisted that TW was not a trans woman but was in fact a man, misgendering her throughout the trial.
Circumstances
There was a public debate scheduled in London between feminists and transgender activists over the conflict of interest between women's rights and the transgender movement, with emphasis on the impact of proposed changes to the UK Gender Recognition Act. The event was titled ‘What is Gender? The Gender Recognition Act and Beyond’.[1]
Links
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- 2018-04-14 Trans attacker is a thug, says feminist
- 2017-12 My Peak Trans Story: refers to the incident, gives some background
- 2017-10-26 Suspects sought after brawl between transgender activists and radical feminists
- 2017-09-27 When vicious entitled thugs attack, I fight back!
- 2017-09-15 Timeline of Trans Activists Beating a Woman in Hyde Park
- "Transgender activists seek the elimination of women as a legal class on the premise that doing so would improve the mental health of a small minority of males who believe biological sex does not exist." -- this gets it right until after the "because"
- Misgenders Bex Stinson
- 2017-09-14 Trans rights, TERFs, and a bruised 60-year-old: what happened at Speakers’ Corner?