Swarmed
The latest stop on anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull’s Let Women Speak tour in Tasmania saw the self-described women’s rights activist swarmed by hundreds of protesters who drowned out the relatively small number of people who turned out in support.
The spirited response left Keen-Minshull, also known as Posie Parker, complaining about a lack of police protection and gave fuel to Kiwis hoping for a similar reaction when the tour arrives in Aotearoa this weekend.
Keen-Minshull has widely criticised policies that support the transgender community and has been labelled as an anti-trans activist.
In the first paragraph the New Zealand Herald calls her “the self-described women’s rights activist” and in the third it says she “has been labelled as an anti-trans activist.” She can’t win, can she. If she says what she is the Herald sneers at her, but the Herald is fully entitled to tell us she’s “been labeled” as a demon.
The Mercury reported that around 40 anti-transgender activists from Let Women Speak attempted to hold their rally yesterday outside Hobart’s State Parliament building, but were outnumbered ten-to-one by counter-protestors, who pushed the smaller group back onto the steps of parliament and chanted over their attempts to speak, leaving them effectively surrounded.
Shorter: counter-protesters outnumbered and bullied the Let Women Speak protesters, thus rendering them unable to speak. The Herald implies this is a good thing.
Isla McGregor from Let Women Speak Tasmania told The Mercury that organisers had contacted Minister for Police, Fire and Emergency Services Felix Ellis to complain of “severe bullying, harrassment, noise abuse, and being spat on.
“Many protesters begged members of Tasmania Police to protect them. They refused,” she said.
In other words no, don’t let women speak; make sure they can’t speak. Women don’t matter.
Stop women speaking.
In short, business as usual. Men do everything possible to ensure women can’t have a say, even in things that concern them. They manage to enlist women to assist in their misogynistic agenda.
And I love the constant number gloating; We had more than you did! This seems to fly in the face of the “oppressed minority” narrative. Not only the numbers, but the noise. “We are being silenced!” – TAs. “We shout loud so you can’t speak!” – TAs.
Honestly, at this point if I could find one, just one, centre or centre-left party that hadn’t swallowed the koolaid and declared feminists the enemy, I’d vote for them. I’d never vote for a far right party and even the centre-right party in New Zealand is looking a bit shaky on this issue.
At least NZ didn’t bow to the demands KJK be denied entry. There may be some hope yet.
I don’t know if NZ has an equivalent to Melbourne’s Black Pampers, but there’s an awful lot of Maori determined to protect their tamariki and mokopuna (children and grandchildren) from the TRA/MRA/Incel Alliance.
What journalism school did that idiot go to? How does this self-described journalist defend against charges that they’re propagandistic hacks who some people think are a disgrace to their profession?
Rev, We didn’t, thanks to the independence of the Immigration Department who presumably looked at the actual facts with a view to could they defend a ban as a matter of law. The Minister of Immigration, Finance, and the Prime Minister were among the politicians who heaped abuse on KJK though. portraying her as a hateful bigot, anti-trans, transphobic, and a friend and ally of the far right. All thoroughly enabled by NZ media from one end of what is now a very shallow pool to the other. not a single article in any NZ media has reported that the organisers of the Let Woman Talk event in Australia did not want the nazis there, asked Police to keep them away and move them out of their zone, and that they had issued statements saying the nazis were unwelcome and nothing to do with them. Not a single article or report. instead every single one trots out the ‘associated with’ or ‘supported by’ shit. It’s just shameful and breaches those organisations own published codes of ethics and behaviour.