Cllr Bristow has been suspended (Image: Ian Bristow X)
The Liberal Democrats have suspended a party councillor who posted a threatening pro-trans graphic to social media on the day Graham Linehan was arrested. Councillor Ian Bristow of Berkhamsted council took to X on the day of Mr Linehan’s arrest to share a cartoon graphic of a young girl holding a gun, captioned: “Shut the f*** up TERF”.
TERF is a well-known internet slang word standing for ‘trans-exclusionary radical feminism’. This includes anyone who believes that the definition of ‘woman’ does not include men who identify as female. Mr Bristow’s social media outburst came in response to an internal debate about the party’s federal board elections, and in response to a post by Natalie Bird, a former LibDem parliamentary candidate who was barred from standing due to her gender critical views.
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JK Rowling was among those blasting the councillor's post (Image: Getty)
Responding to the pro-trans post replying to her, Ms Bird said that Mr Bristow “clearly needs urgent training on social media, professionalism and misogyny.”
The Lib Dems have now said that they have suspended their councillor over the post, branding it “unacceptable”.
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The graphic posted by Cllr Bristow (Image: Cllr Bristow X)
Mr Bristow also apologised for the post, adding: “I have since taken [it] down. On reflection I accept that the tone and graphic used were inappropriate.”
His graphic sparked immediate social media backlash, including from Harry Potter author JK Rowling.
Ms Rowling asked if he had deleted the post due to intervention by the Liberal Democrats, “or didn’t you expect to have to face public scrutiny for sending women abusive gun memes?”
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