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Welcome to the Leeds branch of the Women's Rights Network.
We stand for women’s sex-based rights, safeguarding, freedom of speech and women-only spaces. Follow for local action, events and campaigning — and join us in speaking up.
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See you next year and thanks for having us #Nottingham !
#ReclaimTheNight #Nottingham #WomenSupportWomen #EndMVAWG
#EndMaleViolence 11/11
ALT Group of women with banners at the Maid Marion statue in Nottingham for Reclaim the Night female only march 2026
Women's Rights Network Leeds retweeted
Those women who were scared left feeling elated. We supported each other. We may have been small in number but we were mighty in power. Our bravery stood out against the cowardly abusers. We won't be silenced, and we won't stop marching. 10/11
Women's Rights Network Leeds retweeted
We simply want to be left alone, free from the exact intimidation, violence, and harassment that we were met with last night. Yet despite the shaky start, the second half of the march was very uplifting and we ended on an absolute high. 9/11
Women's Rights Network Leeds retweeted
To claim otherwise is a complete rewriting of feminist history. When will these men realise that saying "female-only" is entirely acceptable? It doesn't mean it's about you. Women are allowed to want spaces, events, and moments to ourselves. 8/11
Women's Rights Network Leeds retweeted
The UK movement was founded in 1977 in Leeds by women, for women, as a direct response to the serial murders committed by Peter Sutcliffe and the institutional police response that told women to stay indoors under a de facto curfew. It was created to fight male violence. 7/11
Women's Rights Network Leeds retweeted
RCG claimed on TikTok: “They @RtnNotts have co-opted Nottingham’s Reclaim the Night women’s march and turned a historically trans inclusive event into a hate march.” Lads, get your history right. Reclaim the Night was never historically trans-inclusive. 6/11
Women's Rights Network Leeds retweeted
Violent scuffles broke out in front of the marchers, meaning we were constantly paused as these men actively tried to block women from marching down the street. They hurled a barrage of abuse, screaming "genocidal murderers," "fascist scum," and "you’re not feminists." 5/11
Women's Rights Network Leeds retweeted
Massive fail, lads! For several women in attendance, this was their first time facing such a hostile environment, leaving them physically shaking. Once the march set off, the police literally had to use their physical bodies to keep these aggressive men away from us. 4/11
Women's Rights Network Leeds retweeted
The protest was organised by the Nottingham Revolutionary Communist Party (RCG). The irony would be laughable if it weren't so terrifying. A march dedicated to letting women walk the streets free from male harassment was targeted by a mob of mainly male protesters. 3/11
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Women's Rights Network Leeds retweeted
We marched for a simple, vital reason: to demand an end to male violence, harassment, and intimidation against women and girls. But instead of a safe public space to raise our voices, women, including survivors of domestic abuse, were met with a hostile, abusive protest. 2/11
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#ReclaimTheNightNottingham
Police had to escort us through the city. The streets of Nottingham are not safe for women in 2026
The words "female-only" are met with violence, intimidation and harassment
But we stayed strong and finished our march
Power to the women ♀️💜💚🤍
Women's Rights Network Leeds retweeted
Last night, our members made history. We stood together in #Nottingham for the first female-only #ReclaimTheNight march the city has seen in well over a decade. In fact, this was likely the only explicitly female-only #ReclaimTheNight march in the entire country this year. 1/11
Women's Rights Network Leeds retweeted
One gym at a time… The Bridge, in Southwark, has been forced to apply the law to its women-only gym and facilities which are now female-only 👏🏼
But, it should not have taken the persistence of Dr Pam Spurr + the intervention of the EHRC and Charity Commission to achieve this. Every facility, every sports event, every recreational group, every activity that states it is women-only must, by law, be for those who are female.
🚨 Calling all TERFs: we CAN make a difference tackling a business, org or charity one at a time that's AVOIDING the law!
Excited to say my persistent challenging of The Bridge Women's Charity's women-only gym, in Southwark, means it'll now be MEN-free.
This is their new guidance (left image) & part of the CEO's email to me. (Note her pronouns 🤪)
ps amusing that in previous emails she used my title & spelt my name correctly (far right image). BUT when she had to concede defeat she misspells my name & doesn't use my title 😀)
Women's Rights Network Leeds retweeted
Yet again. An appalling police response to a chilling incident of stalking.
❌ Failure to take ownership
❌ Failure to take police action.
❌ Having to be shamed into it by media exposure.
Only a few days ago, we were commenting on a concerning incident involving the Darlington nurses.
We’re heartily sick of the platitudes about male violence against women and girls. We need action.
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Women's Rights Network Leeds retweeted
Check out this womans profile for more beautiful photographs of #ReclaimTheNightNottingham
Women's Rights Network Leeds retweeted
Violent men react violently to women marching peacefully to protest male violence.
Well done to the brave women who set up @NottsRtN and to all the sheroes who joined them.
👏 💚 🤍 💜 💪
#ReclaimTheNightNottingham
Police had to escort us through the city. The streets of Nottingham are not safe for women in 2026
The words "female-only" are met with violence, intimidation and harassment
But we stayed strong and finished our march
Power to the women ♀️💜💚🤍
Women's Rights Network Leeds retweeted
What does @NadiaWhittomeMP have to say about the treatment of actual women in Nottingham. I assume that's on her patch. If it were trans women marching, I'm sure she'd be quick to comment.
#ReclaimTheNightNottingham
Police had to escort us through the city. The streets of Nottingham are not safe for women in 2026
The words "female-only" are met with violence, intimidation and harassment
But we stayed strong and finished our march
Power to the women ♀️💜💚🤍
Women's Rights Network Leeds retweeted
I went on 'reclaim the night' marches in the 80s & 90s. Women chanted & sang in peaceful solidarity, with just a couple of police around. Now, 'queer' activists attack the protest because they dare to make it women-only. Gender ideology is an aggressive, misogynistic cult
#ReclaimTheNightNottingham
Police had to escort us through the city. The streets of Nottingham are not safe for women in 2026
The words "female-only" are met with violence, intimidation and harassment
But we stayed strong and finished our march
Power to the women ♀️💜💚🤍
Say no a 'transwoman' and the man will appear. Utterly disgusting scenes of violence against women in Nottingham as they peacefully march to reclaim the night.
#ReclaimTheNightNottingham
Police had to escort us through the city. The streets of Nottingham are not safe for women in 2026
The words "female-only" are met with violence, intimidation and harassment
But we stayed strong and finished our march
Power to the women ♀️💜💚🤍
Women's Rights Network Leeds retweeted
How many police @nottspolice does it take to keep women safe in Nottingham city centre?
@NottsRtN #ReclaimTheNightNottingham
#ReclaimTheNight
