Trans activists disrupted a small child safeguarding event in Brussels, Belgium this past week, throwing cow feces in protest of the speakers holding views critical of gender ideology.
On December 15, child psychiatrist Caroline Eliacheff and professor Céline Masson held a talk at Café Laïque to discuss their latest gender critical publication. The two speakers read from their research, titled “La Fabrique de l’enfant transgenre,” roughly translated as “The Transgender Child Factory,” which expressed concerns over the “psychological conditioning” of youth claiming to be transgender.
But not long after the event had started, trans activists showed up to disrupt the talk.
While the venue was closed to the public and initially had locked doors to prevent disruptions, an individual who exited the space about 30 minutes into the event in order to make a phone call had left the door unlocked, inadvertently allowing the activists a way to enter.
According to Le Figaro, 20 hooded activists then stormed into Café Laïque. Calling themselves the “Ursula Collective,” the group confronted the attendees and began to throw terracotta pots containing garbage and cattle feces throughout the room. The majority of the activists appear to have been male. Some of them were holding signs which suggested that being critical of the medical transitioning of youth was a form of “conversion therapy.”
During their tirade, the disruptors also overturned chairs, jostled people, and tried to attack speakers Masson and Eliacheff while screaming obscenities. Attendees intervened and prevented the group from lunging at the speakers.
Prior to its official start, the event had received threats from anonymous trans activists promising “consequences” if it went ahead.
Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, who had organized Masson and Eliacheff’s talk, told Le Figaro that the threats had been reported to Belgian police in advance, but that officers had been preoccupied providing security for a European Union summit held in the same district.
The speakers decided to end the conference early, fearing for their safety.
One member of the group was arrested once police finally arrived, but the rest of the “Collective” fled.
During the disruption, the window of the building was vandalized, with the name of the venue being obscured by a collage which read “racist,” and “transphobic.”
While Café Laïque has been targeted in the past for its history of platforming controversial speakers, the violent interruption of the talk in this instance appears to have been solely motivated the appearance of Masson and Eliacheff.
The two women are frequently referred to as “transphobic” and called “TERFs” – an acronym for ‘trans exclusionary radical feminist’ often used in a derogatory fashion.
Eliacheff in particular has faced event cancellations in the past due to threats of violence. In November, she was prevented from speaking at a conference in Lille, Belgium. At another event in Paris, she was forced to attend via video conference due to fears for her safety, and yet another event in Lyon was hastily moved due to threats of violence.
“I am no longer at peace anywhere,” Eliacheff has said. The celebrated psychiatrist believes the only way for her to continue speaking at events safely is for her presence to be unannounced and spontaneous.
Bergeaud-Blackler told Le Figaro that she has filed a police complaint regarding the incident, and noted that although journalists were present at the incident, the story has hardly been reported on by Belgian media. She also said that she had attempted to provide the activists a microphone in order to speak freely and civilly, but none had accepted her offer.
The disgusting disruption at Café Laïque this week follows a rising trend of violence against women around the world for their participation at events critical of gender ideology.
Author and women’s right’s advocate Kara Dansky led a peaceful protest earlier this month in Oakland, California which ended in the assault of some female attendees by angry trans activists. Women’s Liberation Front founder Lierre Keith spoke to Reduxx and said the protest had initially been off to a good start — with members of the public expressing support for the women. But the group was ultimately confronted and attacked by black-clad trans activists who had ambushed them.
“One man rammed into Kara with an umbrella. Others attacked us by slamming things into our faces and heads. Kara also got eggs smashed into her head and body. There’s a photo of actual blood behind her ear from the force,” Leith told Reduxx.
The use of waste in protest by trans activists has also been documented in other incidents from this year.
In September, trans activists in London, UK staged a urine-filled protest outside of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to protest proposed plans to exclude some trans-identified males from women’s facilities.
Members of the organization Pissed Off Trannies gathered outside of the EHRC to leave bottles full of human urine around the perimeter. They also poured urine on themselves and onto the public sidewalk, prompting ample disgust from women’s rights advocates on social media.
Even more recently, trans activists suggested that an unidentified liquid they had sprayed at women’s rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen during a Speaker’s Corner event in London was urine.
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