Trans activists gatecrashed a women’s rights rally held in the hometown of suffragette Emily Davison today.
Around 70 women gathered in Carlisle Park, Morpeth, Northumberland, this afternoon for a Let Women Speak (LWS) event, spearheaded by women’s rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen, aka Posie Parker.
But they were met by counter demonstrators shouting through megaphones, who wore masks, waved flags and held placards which read: ‘Transwomen are women’.
The organised Let Women Speak events, which take place across the country, see women take to the stage to talk about a variety of issues that affects them.
Speakers are known for their gender-critical views and the group campaigns against biological males using female-only spaces.
The two groups were separated by a line of more than 20 police officers this afternoon.
Organiser of LWS, Posie Parker, took the microphone and said: ‘Some women are coming to speak using some words, and some spoiled brats are trying to stop us.
‘We…