ScotiaCon promises a weekend meet-up in an ‘intimate setting’, where furries will have the ‘full opportunity’ to ‘make lots of new friends’. The word is now out that some attendees are planning to take a break from the main convention to do what maladjusted young men have done for millennia: get angry and shout at outspoken women.
The final day of the Glasgow furry conference coincides with an event organised by Kellie-Jay Keen’s Standing for Women (SfW) group. SfW is planning to demonstrate against Nicola Sturgeon’s recently stalled gender-recognition reforms, which would ride roughshod over women’s rights, and furious furverts have planned a counter-demo. A ‘battle of Furlodden’ could be on the cards.
The political wing of the furry fandom, ‘Furries Against Fascism’, released a statement on social media this week, vowing to show gender-critical feminists that ‘their hate is not welcome’. ‘Cabaret Against the Hate Speech’, a Scottish LGBTetc collective, also says it will be staging a counter-protest when Keen’s group appears in Glasgow.
Both groups accuse SfW of being ‘transphobic’ and ‘far right’. In truth, SfW attracts supporters of all political persuasions and none. The group’s overarching aim is to ensure that women are legally and socially recognised as adult human females.
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