Sarah Savage, CEO of Trans Pride Brighton, issues a plea to donate after being arrested for disrupting meeting by “notoriously hateful group” Sister Salon
Sarah Savage, CEO of Trans Pride Brighton, has issued a plea to donate to the annual event, which celebrates trans lives and gender diversity, after being arrested for disrupting a meeting by “notoriously hateful group” Sister Salon in Jubilee Library, Brighton. Speaking on Instagram, Sarah said: “I
Sarah Savage, CEO of Trans Pride Brighton, has issued a plea to donate to the annual event, which celebrates trans lives and gender diversity, after being arrested for disrupting a meeting by “notoriously hateful group” Sister Salon in Jubilee Library, Brighton.
Speaking on Instagram, Sarah said: “I’d just finished a speech of defiance to the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. And I was fired up. I was walking past the library, and something went in my head and I knew I could not let it go.
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“So, I walked into the library and I found the room were having the meeting of exclusion, of transphobia, and I hit the fire alarm and everyone had to leave the meeting. All the TERFS had to file out the door while library security grabbed hold of me and pushed me around. The police were called, and I was immediately arrested. Very soon after they found out I was staging a protest and so I was dearrested and they let me go.
“And I want to send a message to the anti-trans, to the transphobes, to the TERFS. I want to tell them that trans people are strong. Trans people are fierce. If you wish to remove our rights, we won’t let it go without a fight, without a struggle, without defiance. Trans people are fearless. Trans people are strong. And we will not let this go.”
Sister Salon, which runs events for women “registered as female at birth, regardless of current gender identity”, has also commented on the UK government’s ‘Guidance for Schools and Colleges: Gender Questioning Children’, saying: “We think the guidance should state clearly that schools must not support children to ‘socially transition’ without the knowledge of their parents…”
The TERF group also campaigns for one of its members, Sarah Summers, who is bringing a legal case against Survivors Network, the rape crisis centre for Sussex, after they “refused to provide a female-only support group alongside groups that are open to both women and transwomen”.
