Patrons douse TERFS in drinks & ketchup for staging an anti-trans protest at bar
A well-known British TERF and two accomplices staged a provocative “silent” protest at two London pubs Friday night, stoking resentment among weekenders simply looking to get a drink.
It did not end well.
“We’re going now,” a police officer told Jean Hatchet, organizer of the anti-trans action, as displeased patrons fled the premises. “You can either make your own way out or I’ll help you out.”
Hatchet’s night on the town began at one bar where she and her two friends set up three small signs reading “TRANSWOMEN ARE MEN,” “NO MEN IN SPORTS – IT’S NOT SAFE + NOT FAIR,” and “A MAN IN A DRESS IS A MAN IN A DRESS.”
And they waited to see what would happen.
‘The idea was to see reactions in a normal bar on truthful statements about the reality of sex versus the nefarious gender,” Hatchet recounted in one of multiple posts about the self-aggrandizing action. “We weren’t saying anything. We weren’t giving our views out loud. We just wondered what people would do if they looked at a quiet truth written on boards.”
Hatchet claimed she had supporters among the unsuspecting Friday night patrons whom she imposed her views on. “A man came up to say he agreed with them,” she recounted.
There were “curious looks, some photos taken from a distance” at the first bar, she said. Then a “middle-aged man at the side of us got up and called us ‘disgusting’ and ‘transphobes.’”
Hatchet took it in stride and moved her protest to another bar, next door.
“Different crowd,” Hatchet said of her second target. “Non-binary feelz on the bar staff.”
The three women set up their signs again, this time in front of a large screen TV showing a football game — a noisy gesture despite not “giving our views out loud.”
That’s when the bar manager approached to say he’d heard complaints; the women needed to take their signs down. They refused.
Minutes later, the three got the Posie Parker treatment and were doused in ketchup the same way the notorious British TERF was while on her hate tour of New Zealand last year.
“I don’t know if it was the same man,” Hatchet reported, “I think it was, came back over as we sat trying to clean clothes a bit and recover ourselves. He threw a drink at us. And ran off again. At this point the police arrived. A group of women behind had been calling us b***hes. It got loud.”
At that point, Hatchet started recording, as police asked them to leave the building over their protests that they’d been “assaulted”.
“Outside we were told that we were the aggressors. That we had thrown tomato ketchup. That we had thrown drinks. We were the ones covered in tomato ketchup and drinks,” Hatchet said of the group’s interaction with police.
A look at Hatchet’s video tells a different story of police trying to diffuse a fraught situation. Cops told Hatchet they didn’t know who the aggressors were, or at least they weren’t saying. Badge numbers were recorded.
“There’re going to be at least two sides of the story,” the lead officer reasoned with Hatchet.
“We didn’t do anything,” Hatchet replied. “There are no two sides.”
Hatchet’s transphobia has made headlines before. As the Taliban was poised to take control in Afghanistan three years ago, she inserted herself into the conversation about women’s rights under the incoming authoritarian regime.
“When the Taliban force women to cover up how many men will want to identify as women?” she wrote on Twitter. “I’m curious. (I’m not really curious – I know).”