TERFS outraged over anti-woman sticker that it turns out they made themselves

A writer and anti-trans activist was eviscerated on social media after trying to claim that LGBTQ+ activists were openly declaring a war on women.

Charlie Bentley-Astor posted a photo of a sticker on a pole depicting a shoe in the colors of the Pride flag stomping on the word “woman.”

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“Found placed over a suffragette women’s rights sticker in an English town,” Bentley-Astor wrote. “A rainbow boot crushing the word ‘woman’ under foot…”

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Found placed over a suffragette women's rights sticker in an English town.

A rainbow boot crushing the word "woman" under foot… pic.twitter.com/Fow368ryaL

— Charlie Bentley-Astor (@astor_charlie) September 9, 2023

It didn’t take long for users on X, formerly known as Twitter, to notice that the bottom right corner of the sticker showed it was created by the anti-trans organization Standing For Women, founded by notorious Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) Posie Parker. The organization is primarily concerned with excluding transgender women from women’s spaces.

Terfpedo caught out yet again pic.twitter.com/oS5dADp7W7

— ©️Miss Gripper ™️ (@djmissgripper) September 11, 2023

Ahhhhhahahaha, getting pissed off about your own stickers.

Fitting pic.twitter.com/oIogYd0Phs

— 🍬❤️‍🔥Feisty Snacks ❤️‍🔥🍬 (@Feisty_Snacks) September 10, 2023

"Found"

— Charley Hasted (@CharleyHasted) September 10, 2023

I love how this is a Standing For Women sticker and it's been stuck over what is quite clearly a pansexual pride flag sticker, so the direction of the aggression here is actually the exact opposite of what you're lying that it is

— moby dickgirl (severalproblems.press/contact/) (@severalproblems) September 10, 2023

*I put this sticker here to drive rage and engagement, because my journalistic ethics and standards are as shallow as my gene pool

— 🏔️ The Man-Moose of Eryri 🏔️ (@CallOfTheCoven) September 10, 2023

Why do I have a feeling your the one who put it there.

— Ell🏳️‍⚧️ (@EllForeboding) September 10, 2023

the call is coming from inside the house

— yamo porrits 2.0 (@2yamo2porrits) September 10, 2023

"look at this sticker I found made by my side to claim that the gays are doing a misogyny"

— 🎀 Sarah 🎀 is on BlueSky (@legndofphoenix) September 10, 2023

After X users had a field day pointing out that Bentley-Astor had misled followers about the origins of the sticker, an X community note was added to the post explaining that “Readers added context” and that “this sticker is manufactured by ‘standing for women’….Not trans rights activists.”

Bentley-Astor claimed this was not a “self-own” and that “I never attributed the sticker to trans rights activists,” but many said she heavily implied it and did not correct anyone who joined in her anger over the sticker. Others criticized her for liking the replies in which people assumed the sticker was placed by trans activists, rather than correcting them.

When I look through the comments, I don't see you correcting anyone who attributed the sticker to trans people. But I do see that you Liked those tweets.

Your intent is clear.

— Yves' Pinned Tweet (@AdamantxYves) September 11, 2023

Ooft pic.twitter.com/1weDGFaJcW

— Patrick Lenton (@PatrickLenton) September 11, 2023

But you corrected the people in your replies who assumed it was based on how you presented it, right?

Right???

— Trans Revolutionary Anarchist 🔥🏛🏴 (@TRAExecutive) September 11, 2023

A lot of people replying to your post seem to think you were… pic.twitter.com/Xzn8lqoMu9

— Sarah Clarke 🚂🚬 (@DamselDystopia) September 11, 2023

this could be a half decent defence if you weren’t liking the tweets about the sticker being a hate-crime against women and saying they hope you ripped it down pic.twitter.com/vwu8voZbwF

— Roma Lane (@romalanee) September 11, 2023

Bentley-Astor has made a name for herself in the anti-trans movement by speaking out about her experience thinking she was trans due to what she claimed was social pressure and then realizing she wasn’t.