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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
George Lithgow

Statue of suffragette Millicent Fawcett defaced as trans rights protesters march on London

Police are investigating after seven statues and property were vandalised before tens of thousands of trans rights protesters marched through central London on Saturday.

Trans rights groups, trade unions and community organisations demanded “trans liberation” and “trans rights now” as they came together for a demonstration in Parliament Square in Westminster amid anger over the UK’s highest court ruling the terms “woman” and “sex” in the 2010 Equality Act “refer to a biological woman and biological sex”.

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