If you have any doubts about how far a small (and unrepresentative) group of “trans rights” advocates and activists will go to further their cause, read this story in the Daily Mail today. Linda Bellos, 67, is a lifelong feminist. She is facing a private legal action for saying, at a public meeting, that if associates of a trans woman who assaulted a 60-year-old feminist approached her with hostile intent, she was ready and willing to fight back. She’s already faced complaints to the police (and been interviewed) over that comment. The police decided there was no case to answer. So Bellos’ pursuer has gone down the private prosecution route. A pensioner of limited means now faces significant legal costs and possible legal sanction for saying, in effect, she was prepared to defend herself from the sort of assault that another women with similar characteristics had suffered.
That would be interesting (and troubling) enough if Linda Bellos was just anyone.
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