Youth activists release thousands of crickets to disrupt anti-trans hate group conference

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Lead conference speaker JK Rowling called the activists homophobic for standing up for trans rights.

On Friday, a group of youth activists released over 6,000 crickets at an anti-trans hate group’s conference in the United Kingdom.

The bugs were released during an event of the LGB Alliance, interrupting a speech by anti-trans advocate Jamie Reed regarding transgender healthcare. The group Trans Kids Deserve Better claims credit for the action.

Journalist Michael Baggs released a video of the crickets, showing them infesting seats as conference hosts rally people to vacate the premises. “Someone released a box of crickets in the LGB Alliance conference hall. Alexa play Despacito,” he said, in reference to a popular meme meant to give mocking sympathy.

Police were called to the event but made no arrests. The protestors were, however, escorted off the premises.

Trans Kids Deserve Better is a youth-led trans advocacy group that has made headlines in recent months for occupying the Department of Education and climbing NHS (National Health Service) England’s headquarters.

The British group LGB Alliance was founded in 2019 to oppose the trans advocacy organization Stonewall. Reed is a former Washington University case worker who has since entered the public eye as a “whistleblower” for gender-affirming care. Many of her claims, however, have been disputed by patients she served.

The conference opened with J.K Rowling railing against the idea that trans women can be lesbians. Rowling said on X of the cricket incident, “Did any of those releasing insects in an attempt to sabotage the @AllianceLGB conference have a split second of sanity in which they thought ‘Am I in fact proving every critic of gender identity ideology right? Is trying to disrupt a meeting of gay people a tad homophobic?’”

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