Many thanks to the over 2000 people who came to gather with us to mark Brianna Ghey's passing and to pay their respects.
Nothing can make up for her loss but this outpouring of feeling shows that we will not let her memory fade quietly.
We will be meeting in Sackville Gardens on Wednesday to come together as a community to mourn Brianna Ghey's death. We hope you will join us in marking her passing and showing respect for her tragically short life.
Manchester protest against conversion therapy
3pm Saturday
16th April
St Peters Square
Join us in protesting the exclusion of trans people from the recently proposed ban on conversion therapy in the UK!
Posie Parker said she wouldn't be intimidated. She didn't come anywhere near our statue and instead sent in a squad of people to put flags up which led to an altercation wherein they attacked our security. No injuries thankfully.
Manchester says no to fascists.
After repeatedly being told he will not be welcome, Alex Bramham is still insisting on attending our protest tomorrow as he has previously harassed people at our protests.
Do not engage with Alex or his boyfriend. Block them from the crowd with signs and flags.
🏳️🌈 Why I’m attending
@manc_up
@LGBTfdn
protest against conversion therapy tomorrow - representing
@LGBTCons
as your Conservative candidate for the
#Piccadilly
ward it takes place in.
Liverpool counterdemo against fascist and anti-trans zealot Posie Parker!
Sunday 8th October at 12:30pm
Old Wall Arch, Albert Dock, L3 4AS
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Thanks to everyone who came out. At such short notice there were far more out than we could have expected, including people from the local LGBT community, women who work in the DV sector ashamed of the divisive policies TERFs push, and many others.
You made this possible.
For days after our protest again WPUK we've been told that there's no proof of their transphobia. Their first talk that they published from it a 15 minute long argument that trans women should be excluded from women's single sex spaces.
Point proven.
Trans people already use, and have used single sex spaces transitioning across legal and social sex categories. You can not pretend that trying to roll back the clock at least 10 years is not an attack on our rights. Deeply disingenuous.
Single-sex spaces, where sex matters, should be organised according to sex. If *additional* spaces, organised on a different basis are also required - let's make them. This is not transphobia. This is women's rights.
OUR STATEMENT ON MANCHESTER TRANS PRIDE
This weekend marks Manchester’s first ever trans pride march and unfortunately, we believe that it may be following in the footsteps of many of its corporate siblings. (1/29)
Think about all the people choosing between food and heat this winter while our state funds a multi million pound funeral and a multi million pound coronation.
Do not take placards from this group. They are the SWP and are attempting to hijack the protest. We are not party affiliated and their group has already been asked to leave.
Google Comrade Delta
British educational safeguarding is allowing social services to "safeguard" young autistic people from knowing about trans people or being trans.
If StopfordianR's name is anything to go by, this is in the Greater Manchester area.
In protest at the continued refusal to heed calls for accountability, we are calling on friends and allies to assemble at Quay House, Media City, 1pm on Sat 27th November.
This is the week after Trans Day of Remembrance.
Get in touch if you have access needs we can plan for.
Really grateful for the support from
@McrDPAC
as well as trade unionists and
@speakoutsister
here today united against hate in our city.
The People's History Museum have closed to the public for the day in order to host a hate group. Shameful and worrying.
If we must stand in silence there is no right to protest. The police courts and sentencing bill threatens to take away our freedom to make a noise when people are coming to take our rights, and WPUK calling all night for the police to get rid of us threaten more of the same.
We support the right to protest. But the right to harass, intimidate, abuse or silence? No. Aggressive protestors attempting to drown out women's voices at
#WPUKManchester
tonight
It's shocking how many Labour party politicians are there for us when we're dead who won't stand up for trans people while we are alive.
It's almost like we're more useful to them dead - and that is extremely dangerous for us.
Today I attended the vigil for Brianna Ghey in Leeds.
It was moving to see so many people coming together to mourn her loss and to celebrate her life.
Brianna deserved to live to see a society where trans people are free from discrimination and danger. We must work to build it.
Thank you to everyone who came and said NO to the GCs and fascists.
Thank you to the random passerbys who expressed support and comradery.
Thank you to our security team for keeping people safe.
And thank you to everyone else behind the scenes.
Nothing about us without us ❤️
If this is your attitude to protests you've got no place near the PHM which documents many more robust civil rights actions than some chants outside a building.
@manc_up
@McrDPAC
@speakoutsister
Your behaviour yesterday was vile. Aggressive, full of hate and without any class. The museum was forced to shut because of your behaviour. Real women wanted to gain access for a meeting on women’s rights and you tried to stop it. You will never stop us. Ever. 😃
We're accused of silencing people, but the
@BBCNWT
cut our statement down to almost nothing, and softpedalled the lying claims by WPUK members that they weren't transphobic.
Our voice is in the streets, and we'll not silence ourselves there.
Meanwhile Woman's Place UK get their full throated support of racist bigots like Tommy Robinson while posing as having any credibility as a human rights organisation.
We're not going out being silent about this.
This is a horrific abrogation of the rights of the child, and the rights of this particular child as a disabled person to equal access to education and support as a gender diverse individual.
Schools in the North West are failing trans and gender diverse youth, becoming hostile environments for their education.
This is becoming urgently and immediately clear.
Being nowhere for years of complaints, when trans folks are being attacked, and then clout chasing over a dead girl's body while having done nothing of any value is pretty sick actually.
Today the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Act comes into effect, criminalising the Gypsy, Roma and Traveler communities through making it illegal to stop outside of "authorised" camps, allowing police to seize and destroy their homes and lock them up.
He says he's proud to represent the local community. To this I ask you, why are you standing against us then? Look at our protest against WPUK last time. More of the community supported us rather than the TERFs. It's evident TERFs aren't welcome in Manchester.
Join us with Manchester Anti-Fascist Collective as we oppose fascists attempting to quell free speech at Bolton and Rochdale libraries.
Rochdale: 16/08/2022
Bolton: 17/08/2022
More information in the replies.
For those that aren't aware, Brianna Ghey was a 16 yo trans girl murdered in Warrington over the weekend.
Since then she has been misgendered in multiple news outlets, had her pre-transition name published by the right wing press, had references to her girlhood erased in some.
@McrDPAC
@speakoutsister
Absolutely shameful but this shows that when Transphobes are allowed to dominate our spaces, trans people, disabled activists (who currently have a featured exhibition downstairs) and the general public can not use the space anymore.
In response to Manchester Trans Pride’s depoliticisation of pride, and their pro-police stance, we are urging everyone to bring radical, abolitionist banners to the march, and to make their radical trans voices heard! (3/29)
We ask the SWP not to attend as an organised presence.
We're members of the trans community and allies, we're not here to recruit people for a party and do not need hijacking by a group with a chequered history for sexual violence.
We believe that the way the organisers spoke about Sarah Jane and their willingness to hand her over to the cops is absolutely disgraceful, and shows how completely out of touch some of the organisers are with the realities of the state’s persecution of trans people. (9/29)
Genspect are well documented as a conversion therapy advocacy organisation. THAT is a safeguarding issue that needs to be urgently investigated by anyone who knows about this situation.
The one thing the museum is there to do - to be a resource educating people about the history of civil rights and social movements - today it stopped doing to provide space to TERFs
...unnecessary legal expenses. They say that their position as a CIC means that they have to remain politically unbiased. We believe that trans pride can never be politically unbiased: our lives are inherently political, and our responses have to be inherently radical. (16/29)
As usual we ask that there are no attempts to turn this into a money grabbing or promo exercise for paper sellers or political parties. We are a grass roots community activist group run by and for members of the trans community.
further meetings with the police and were eager to rely on them as security, claiming that they would ‘protect’ the community from terfs (GMP historically does the opposite). When criticism of their policy on policing was brought up, it was met with significant hostility. (5/29)
Many of the organisers of MTP are pro-police, and we believe the police's involvement in ‘protecting’ this march makes the event less safe for the queer community - particularly queer & trans people of colour, working class queers and activists. (6/29)
We are releasing this statement in order to share some of our experiences with - and criticisms of - Manchester Trans Pride CIC, and to encourage as many people to keep the radical, abolitionist spirit of pride alive this weekend. (2/29)
To those asking "why was this attention not given to other murdered young people", that's a really good question. Why are you so comfortable with dead children?
Trans people are 0.5% of the population according to the census.
TERFs are reacting to local press coverage of the protest with homophobic abuse suggesting a journalist can't do his job because because he's not heterosexual.
This conference happened in the heart of the gay village. This is the contempt they bring here. Manchester said no.
None of us will be free until we destroy the systems that imprison, abuse and persecute our siblings; pride has always been about this abolitionist struggle, from Stonewall to Sylvia Rivera. (18/29)
To the people announcing their withdrawal of support for our cause because we mocked the death of the queen, take a look at what anti-trans groups are waffling on about.
These groups are directly intermingled with and dependant upon the state. We are oppressed by the state.
We are deeply sorry to hear of the death of our Queen and profoundly grateful for her long life of service. We add our voices to the millions of those, at home and abroad, giving thanks for her extraordinary contribution to public life.
Full solidarity to our comrades at
@manc_up
who stood up to the transphobes led by Posie Parker in Manchester today.
Transphobia has no place in feminism ✊
Naomi Hersi was let down, misgendered, her murderer weaponised narratives of misogynoir, and about the circumstances she had come into contact with her killer. Her love for tennis and lust for life were erased in a tawdry cannibalisation of her last days in the press.
Woke up this morning thinking about Naomi Hersi, a black trans woman around my age and from my ends that was murdered. I hold deep in my heart Brianna Ghey.
I pray, in struggle, that our grief and rage turns into justice, and a world where our trans siblings grow old in peace.
It took Liverpool Labour MP
@IanByrneMP
3 days after crocodile tears about a dead trans girl to start promoting transphobia.
This is why we've been speaking up about "left wing labour" politicians being frequently full of shit.
The death of Brianna Ghey is truly heartbreaking.
I am sending my love, prayers and absolute solidarity to Brianna's family and loved ones at this incredibly difficult time for everyone.
May she rest in peace ❤️
MTP debated us fiercely on this, insisting that they could not platform speakers due to their need to remain apolitical as a CIC. We were told that pride isn’t a protest; that it doesn't always have to be radical. (12/29)
Our deepest sympathies go out to those who knew and loved her in her community who must be experiencing a deep shock at this difficult time while muckraking press dig through what remains of her horrifically shortened life.
Every attempt to reach a compromise that might benefit all areas of the community was instantly shot down in favour of a liberal, assimilationist pride that mirrors many of the harmful elements of other corporate prides that our community has come to reject. (13/29)
In the discussion over this, MTP organisers suggested that they might inform police of her whereabouts if she attended, framing her as a dangerous person due to her history of incarceration. (8/29)
We initially reached out to Manchester Trans Pride (MTP) due to concerns over their involvement of police in the march. While MTP are required to inform the police of the march due to their CIC status, we felt uncomfortable with the fact that organisers were having... (4/29)
We are used as political pawns in a culture war waged by politicians and the media. There is no way that we can celebrate pride, resist persecution or achieve liberation without being political, or indeed radical. (17/29
Pride began as a protest, and we cannot afford to depoliticise such a historically important event for our community at such a crucial point in the fight for trans liberation. The involvement of the police in the organisation of this march is highly disrespectful to... (19/29)
A week ago today, we demonstrated against Posey Parker and her fashy friends but that's not all we do.
Our lives as trans people are often challenged, questioned, and used as a fan to the flames of t-shirt sales and crowdfund grifts.
We are more than that. Trans joy is real.
We asked if we could platform some radical speakers from other areas of the community that haven’t been represented by the event, or in the organisational team of majority older, white middle class people (some of whom are cis). (11/29)
The organisers have consistently pushed against radical ideas & discussions around trans liberation from being platformed at their event, dismissing and ridiculing grassroots activists in favour of influencers, and instead focusing on red tape and merch sales. (14/29)
Solidarity with the survivor of the horrific Thomas Knyvett school attack.
We know too well the way the failures of school authorities to protect young people made vulnerable by cultures of prejudice play out.
A GoFundMe has been launched for mental health support for the Black girl who was attacked outside a Surrey school. The organiser working with the family says the girl is barely eating or speaking & the attack would have a ‘detrimental impact on any child’
We are not calling for a boycott of the march, nor are we trying to cancel MTP. Some of us will be present at the march on Saturday, and we are calling for as many people as possible to come to the march with radical/abolitionist signs and banners in order to keep... (23/29)
@manc_up
@MENnewsdesk
Interesting choice of photograph. Giving the message to readers this was a peaceful response to women meeting to talk about women.
Why did you not use images which showed the screaming & organised shouting that went on throughout the meeting?
MTP is a registered CIC (community interest company), and while they’re not interested in making a profit for organisers, much of their efforts have gone into growing their brand name, selling merch, and accessing thousands of pounds in funding to pay for... (15/29)
When we offered to organise speakers (as this was something that MTP did not consider important enough to include in their pride march), we were also met with hostility. (10/29)
the members of the community most persecuted by the state, and puts them at risk. While their website states that donations made to TPM will ‘improve the lives of trans people’, they have instead spent up to thousands of pounds working with the council and police to... (20/29)
shut down roads for this march, which totally defeats the point of taking up space; of marching in resistance to a state that wants to destroy us. Denying the wider trans community the opportunity to speak, and trying to prohibit us from spreading radical messages of... (21/29)
We have been asked to pass on a request from the caretakers of Sackville Gardens, could people leaving flowers for Brianna please remove plastic from them to make managing them in a few days more environmentally manageable, please.
We ask for you to reflect on some of the harm that your stance on policing, and reporting others to the police could potentially cause. We ask to you focus less on making badges and T-shirts, and more on what the wider community wants from a trans pride march. (27/29)
Thanks also to those who helped keep people safe at the vigil, printed materials to help anyone struggling, helped ensure fire safety and crowd management.