Police removed lesbians from a pride march in Cardiff with an officer telling gender-critical women to step aside due to ‘confrontation’ with a transgender group and their supporters.
Get The L Out UK, a lesbian activist group that ‘stands against… transgenderism’, shared footage from yesterday’s Cardiff Pride event.
In the clip, a lesbian and a transgender woman can be seen shouting at each other on St Mary Street during the LGBT+ march.
The lesbian activists had ‘interrupted’ the march, and were not registered members of the parade, Pride Cymru confirmed.
The police officer can be heard saying to the women that their group is ‘causing confrontation between different groups of people’.
In the clip, the police officer can be heard saying to the women that their group is ‘causing confrontation between different groups of people’
The group were holding banners that said ‘transactivism erases lesbians’ and ‘lesbians don’t like penises’.
He said in the video: ‘At the moment, your march, this group of people is causing confrontation between different groups of people.’
Women are then heard replying ‘we’re lesbians, it’s Cardiff pride’.
The police officer replies, saying ‘whatever you are… at the moment, is causing confrontation’.
The group were holding banners that said ‘transactivism erases lesbians’ and ‘lesbians don’t like penises’
Get The L Out UK, a lesbian activist group that ‘stands against… transgenderism’, shared footage from yesterday’s Cardiff Pride event
A police officer told one of the women: ‘To make sure you’re safe, we are going to remove you from the road’
He adds: ‘To make sure you’re safe, we are going to remove you from the road’.
A woman replies, stating: ‘I want to make sure that I understand that you’re removing lesbians from an LGBT march.’
The officer confirms that ‘yes, that is what’s happening.. for safety, for your safety… for other people’s safety — that’s why I’m doing it’.
The woman replies, saying: ‘you should be able to protect lesbians in a pride march’.
The officer adds: ‘We can have further conversations about reasons why, at the side of the road, because otherwise you are going to be removed from the road’.
The video has sparked an online row about the decision, as Get The L Out UK was not a registered member of the parade, and had ‘crashed’ the event.
The video has sparked an online row about the decision, with some people suggesting that Get The L Out UK were not registered members of the parade, and had ‘crashed’ the event
Video showed a lesbian and a transgender woman shouting at each other on St Mary Street during the LGBT+ march yesterday
‘At the moment, your march, this group of people is causing confrontation between different groups of people,’ the officer said
‘If they need protection for their own safety, then the police should march with them and protect them,’ one commenter on Twitter said.
‘Lesbians. In danger. At a Pride march. And the police tell *them* to get out, instead of dealing with those who are doing the threatening. What has Pride become? What have the police become? I can hardly believe what I’m seeing,’ another person said.
However another questioned: ‘If you want to ‘get the L out’ why go to an LGBT event?’
‘Most women and lesbians cheered when you were moved on. You don’t represent their majority view. You attended solely as an anti-trans group,’ a third person said.
‘Removing homophobes and transphobes from Pride is good,’ someone else added. ‘Even if they themselves are LGBT Homophobes and transphobes are not welcome at Pride as it is a protest against that very thing’.
Chair of Pride Cymru, Gian Molinu, said: ‘Today’s Pride Cymru parade was all about celebration and LGBTQ+ rights.
‘Despite a small group of people interrupting the march, they were drowned out by shouts of solidarity and the community and spectators. There is no place for hate at Pride.
‘And as our parade said today loudly and clearly, “trans rights are human rights”.’
South Wales Police have been contacted for comment.
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