Thousands of crickets unleashed on ‘anti-trans’ event addressed by JK Rowling

It was similar the plagues of Egypt had descended connected the LGB Alliance league erstwhile ‘thousands’ of crickets were released successful London today.

Harry Potter writer JK Rowling had earlier addressed the gender-critical radical via video connection during the gathering astatine the Queen Elizabeth II Centre connected Friday.

Attendees cheered erstwhile she declared: ‘Lesbians don’t person penises.’

Then came the crickets. Pictures and videos shared connected societal media amusement the insects crawling implicit chairs and being scooped from the level aboriginal successful the day.

‘Just termination the bugger’, a talker could beryllium heard telling the assemblage arsenic radical laughed. The charity’s brag aboriginal called the incidental ‘distressing’.

Pro-trans activists had released the crickets from bags, according to Trans Kids Deserve Better, which claimed responsibility.

The run radical said the astir 6,000 insects, which ‘do not infest and airs nary information to humans’, were intended to extremity the league early.

Described by trans rights activists arsenic transphobic, LGB Alliance says it supports the rights of lesbian, cheery and bisexual people, which it claims are threatened by ‘gender ideology’.

It opposes aesculapian transition, including hormone therapy and puberty blockers, for young people, on with self-identification, which it says threatens the information of women-only spaces.

A spokesperson for Trans Kids Deserve Better said: ‘It makes maine truly aggravated to spot trans kids being talked astir similar a clump of brainless children who can’t marque decisions for oregon talk for themselves.

‘I’m sick of having our voices taken distant by bigoted radical similar the LGBA who talk implicit america alternatively of listening.

‘Whilst we, the trans community, cobble unneurotic what small enactment we tin to support each different safe, this radical claiming to basal for societal advancement spends hundreds of thousands of pounds annually to support america down. We are trans kids, we are loved, and we merit dignity.

‘They whitethorn effort to ‘sound the alarm’ connected trans younker accessing life-saving healthcare but we cannot and volition not fto them. Trans younker are almighty and we volition fto them f***ing cognize it.’

Kate Barker, main enforcement of the LGB Alliance, formed successful 2019, said: ‘It was distressing to spot thousands of insects killed for the sole intent of trying to disrupt the UK’s lone league for same-sex attracted people

‘This attempted sabotage speaks volumes astir our opponents.

‘For years, sex individuality ideologists person infested the LGB movement, bullying and silencing anyone who disagrees with them.

‘It’s particularly bittersweet that the perpetrators don’t look to realise that the men and women gathered present contiguous fought for their close to beryllium gay, lesbian and bisexual.

‘This has lone brought america unneurotic and made america much determined to combat against the renewed emergence of homophobia, which is each the much unsafe for coming wrapped successful the rainbow flag.’

Some of the six pro-trans activists fled portion information detained the others and escorted them from the premises.

No arrests person been made, according to police, who are investigating the incident.

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