{"id":45627,"date":"2025-04-24T04:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T04:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/45627\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T04:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T04:05:12","slug":"trans-protest-to-be-held-in-birmingham-following-rallies-in-london-and-edinburgh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/45627\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans protest to be held in Birmingham following rallies in London and Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trans rights protesters will descend upon Birmingham on Saturday for a demonstration in response to a Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman.<\/p>\n

It comes after similar rallies were held in London and Edinburgh at the weekend, following the justices\u2019 ruling on April 16 that the terms \u201cwoman\u201d and \u201csex\u201d in the Equality Act 2010 \u201crefer to a biological woman and biological sex\u201d.<\/p>\n

It means that trans women cannot use single-sex female toilets, changing rooms or compete in women\u2019s sports, according to the head of Britain\u2019s equalities watchdog.<\/p>\n

Organisers of the Birmingham rally said the demonstration will aim to show solidarity with those affected by the ruling, which they say has far-reaching implications for transgender people accessing single-sex services and spaces.<\/p>\n

\"2010<\/p>\n

People from trans rights groups and community organisations take part in a rally organised by Resisting Transphobia outside Queen Elizabeth House, the UK Government building in Edinburgh (Lesley Martin\/PA)<\/p>\n

Brendan McPhillips, one of the organisers of the event, said the city would be presenting a \u201cunited front against hatred and discrimination\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThis protest is set against the historic backdrop of the gay panic, the lives lost to the AIDS crisis, and reminiscent of the fights from yesteryear that only yester-queers will fully understand. We have seen this hate before and now we must stand united against it once again.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe stand in a united front, united with a single, common goal; for the BIPOC (black, Indigenous and people of colour), Asian, white, brown, black, Irish traveller and Romani trans, non-binary and intersex voices that have been ignored for too long.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the groups supporting the protest, which will be held at 6pm in front of the Birmingham HIV and Aids Memorial in Hurst Street, are Brum Against Hate, the Birmingham LGBT centre and trade unions including Unison and the National Education Union.<\/p>\n

\"2010<\/p>\n

Graffiti left on a statue of Jan Christian Smuts in Parliament Square, London (Andrew Matthews\/PA)<\/p>\n

Thousands of supporters gathered in central London on Saturday for what was billed as an \u201cemergency demonstration\u201d in response to the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n

The Metropolitan Police said it is examining footage from the event amid claims some demonstrators had placards featuring death threats.<\/p>\n

It is also appealing for witnesses after seven statues were vandalised during the protest.<\/p>\n

\u201cFag rights\u201d and a heart were painted on the banner held on the statue of suffragist Millicent Fawcett, and \u201ctrans rights are human rights\u201d was sprayed on the pedestal bearing a memorial to South African military leader and statesman Jan Christian Smuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trans rights protesters will descend upon Birmingham on Saturday for a demonstration in response to a Supreme Court…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[21723,855,748,25186,1102,393,4884,25184,257,18744,25183,24247,16,25185,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-45627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-biological-sex","9":"tag-birmingham","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-demonstration","12":"tag-edinburgh","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-jan-christian-smuts","16":"tag-london","17":"tag-protest","18":"tag-supreme-court-ruling","19":"tag-trans-rights","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-front","22":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114390966234154707","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}