Crickets invade and disrupt transphobic London meeting led by Rowling

The annual meeting of the LGB Alliance took place on October 11 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Hall in London. This organization excludes transgender individuals from the LGBTQ+ community, denying their right to medical care and self-determination. The meeting was disrupted by activists from the transgender community, who did so in a very unconventional manner.

Earlier, a video message from "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling, known as a prominent figure in the transphobic movement in the UK and worldwide, was shown at the opening of the conference. The crowd cheered as Rowling asserted transphobic claims. According to the organization Trans Kids Deserve Better (TKDB), in a statement on their website, six teenage activists managed to attend the conference.

TKDB described the protest: "6 of us released about 6,000 crickets into hate group LGB Alliance's annual conference. The result of the conference, if it had gone ahead as planned, would have been an acceleration of transphobic hate and misinformation, which drives much of the attack on our healthcare and our dignity."

TKDB activists emphasized that the LGB Alliance claims to defend the rights of lesbians, bisexuals, and gays, but the challenge posed by Mermaids and the Good Law Project against their charity status indicates that they devote most of their activities to vilifying transgender people.

While using living creatures to disrupt a transphobic conference may raise moral concerns, the "biblical plague" brought significant publicity to the activists for transgender rights, which they likely wouldn’t have achieved through more conventional forms of action. Live crickets are commonly available as food for pet spiders and reptiles.