This is the moment a furious woman launches a tirade at a hot-tempered meeting after a vote to ban transgender bathers from Hampstead Ladies’ Pond failed.
The annual meeting of the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond Association (KLPA) had to be abandoned moments after the vote because outraged women refused to stop shouting.
Trans women have been permitted to bathe at the historic north London pond in Hampstead Heath since 2019.
Venice Allan, who appears to defend Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists (Terf) on social media, stood up a chair and told the meeting to ‘enjoy maintaining the fantasy porn set that you’ve created’.
She also wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that ‘there is talk of a legal challenge’ to the vote and claimed to have ‘shut down’ the meeting with her tirade.
Venice Allan stands on a chair and begins to shout shortly after the vote
The meeting had to be abandoned after a group of women refused to stop shouting
Venice Allan lifts up her skirt to reveal a Union Flag which has the words Terf Island on it
Ms Allan posted this picture on X after the meeting with the caption Pond Squad
In the video, Ms Allan is heard shouting: ‘That when the inevitable happens, as a result of your trans inclusive policy, that the majority of women, and, so I’m told, two men, have voted for today, and one of these men, that you’re so inclusive of, attack or rape a woman or girl, I want you to remember that you voted for that.
‘I hope you wake up in the middle of the night and remember that you made that act of male violence in a sacred woman’s space possible.
‘Until then, enjoy maintaining the fantasy porn set that you’ve created for these perverted men and maintaining their erections.
‘You’ll be glad to hear that you won’t be seeing me there ever again until this single-sex policy is implemented’.
She claimed to have shut down the meeting, saying in the caption: ‘Well I got the meeting shut down after TRAs (Trans Rights Activists) voted against our motion to make the pond women-only.’
Ms Allan appears to use the ‘Terf’ acronym to describe herself on social media and posted a picture of herself pulling up her skirt to reveal a Union Flag with the words ‘Terf Island’, which is a derogatory slang used to describe gender critical countries like the UK, printed on it.
The previously reported that campaigners shouted ‘traitors’ and ‘shame on you’ at the meeting following the vote.
Earlier, the meeting heard pleas from women who said they no longer felt safe using the pond because of the policy of ‘inclusivity’ towards trans swimmers.
Ms Allan captioned this post: ‘Imagine if an NHS doctor joked about a “trans repellent spray”‘
Ms Allan also shared this picture on social media which appears to defend ‘Terfs’
A group of female swimmers lost a bid to bar trans women from using the pond (pictured: a sign outside the pond saying ‘women only’)
Women at the Women’s Bathing Pond on Hampstead Heath, London
Sources inside the meeting said women accused the all-female KLPA management committee of prioritising the rights of trans women over those who had been born female
Sources inside the meeting said women accused the all-female KLPA management committee of prioritising the rights of trans women over those who had been born female.
The Ladies’ Pond opened in 1926 and is billed as a ‘unique women-only space’ that ‘provides a place of refuge and security for women and girls of all ages’.
In 2019, the City of London Corporation, which manages Hampstead Heath, adopted a gender identity policy allowing trans women to use the pond. It said it was needed to be ‘fully compliant with the Equality Act 2010’.
Campaigners called on the KLPA to amend its constitution to include the phrase ‘biological female’ and said single-sex spaces were allowed for changing rooms and swimming pools under human rights legislation.
They accused the KLPA committee of prioritising the rights of trans swimmers over a larger number of women who wanted a female-only space, including those from religious communities whose beliefs mean they can swim only in female-only environments.
The Kenwood Ladies Pond has been open to transgender women since 2019
Members supporting the rights of trans women said a ban would be unfair and unlawful and questioned how it could be enforced.
The bid to change the KLPA constitution failed, with around three-quarters of the 200 votes cast against the resolution.
The two-hour meeting – which had opened with a plea for members to be kind and respectful – was then said to have descended into a shouting match.
In a statement, the KLPA said all women were welcome to join.