Guardian columnist ties cis male murderer to trans women. Now people are protesting their office.

While there were many articles in The Guardian‘s history that spurred the protest, the catalyst was an op-ed by Catherine Bennett in the newspaper’s weekly publication, The Observer, that used the recent murder of 33-year-old Sarah Everard to argue that “those who self-declare their sex and who are perceived as males” should not be allowed in women’s spaces.

Everard, a cisgender woman, was abducted and killed by police officer Wayne Couzens, a cisgender man. In the piece, Bennett says that allowing trans women into places like restrooms will allow “the same sort of opportunist from appearing in women-only changing rooms.”

Natacha Kennedy, who organized Thursday’s protest, told PinkNews she couldn’t believe a mainstream publication would appropriate Everard’s murder to further an anti-trans agenda.

“I thought there would be somebody in the anti-trans community who would do this,” Kennedy said, “one of the really extreme fanatics, but I really did not expect it to be The Guardian using her memory to oppress people. I really never thought The Guardian would sink this low.”