Since I am now so thoroughly sick of being called a fascist and nazi, i decided to go for it.Ī few days after the carpark debacle, an email was forwarded to me from Cllr Rosemary Healy in response to a complaint about the cancellation: As I was speaking to this angry and vibrant crowd of women, messages of support began to flood in, including offers from lawyers to represent me if I wanted to sue. I think something is starting to shift though. In recent years, the “holy month of Pride” seems to be focused only on trans issues, with lesbians so far down the pecking order we feel distinctly unwelcome. So the statement was incredibly insulting, if not entirely surprising. I have been an out and proud lesbian since the age of 15, and have campaigned against anti-gay bigotry for decades. They rocked up, making a show of themselves by playing loud music, shouting slogans and, during my talk, one man pushed right up close to me - close enough to touch - in an attempt to distract me. Many brave women were there, as well as the predictable group of trans activists. I don’t need a room to make my point, and so in the spirit of feminist resistance, I made it in the library’s car park. In fact, it was made clear that I and the organisers would be forcibly removed if we entered the library. But while I was on the train up to the event, I was told it had been cancelled. The talk sold out with mainly young, working-class women planning to attend. This summer, I had been asked to speak about male violence towards women at a library in Nottingham, in a working-class area, similar to where I had grown up. This time, the weapon was a case against Nottingham City Council (NCC), who I threatened to sue for de-platforming me from one of its public libraries. Another week, another successful legal challenge - and another dent in the armour of extreme transgender ideology.
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