This blog post is devoted to the beyond appalling treatment Kellie-Jay Keen experienced down under, especially in New Zealand.
This is the full text of Kellie-Jay’s tweet above:
I have travelled a fair few places and witnessed the bravery of women. I am inspired by them. Unlike me they don’t all like public speaking, it’s takes every ounce of courage they can summon. With nervous voices they hold their speeches in their shaking hands and tell their stories. Some break your heart, some will make you angry, some will resonate like no other. Some are gifts of articulate righteousness that pull you right into a powerful place. Each woman brings something both unique to her and yet a shared experience we can all understand.
All will inspire you to fight for what you believe in.
Since the beginning of time women have had to fight to be heard, we are afraid but our rage is more powerful than our fears. After the rainbows we are bringing a fucking storm.
Please watch Rukshan’s video:
Posie Parker Assaulted in New Zealand by Trans Rights Activists during Women's Rights Rally
Will NZ Police, Government and Media condemn this atrocious behaviour? Or are they going to stand by and watch the result of the mob they’ve helped riled up to surround and antagonise women trying to speak?
In some backwards countries tribal leaders and men publicly pour acid on women who speak to silence them. In New Zealand right now Trans rights activists are celebrating their attempt at the ritualistic humiliation of a women's rights activist by throwing a substance at them in public and taking over the platform on which she was about to speak as a win for decency.
The only thing different in the examples provided is the substance used, the intent is the same. #LetWomenSpeak
The livestream video below is how Kellie-Jay experienced the sinister Auckland mob.
Please note this comment this comment on the video:
I was there Kellie-Jay with my 17 year old son. We assisted your security team, along with another guy (both of us ex cops) to get you and your team out of the grounds when it turned to custard. I spoke to the police earlier just prior (who were completely understaffed for this event) and mentioned the vibe was not good and to get over to the rotunda and form a presence, and to get you out if required. They stated they were putting together a plan and then simply walked away from me in the other direction (contingency plans tend to be done prior to, not during). It then blew up at which time we made our way over to the rotunda and helped out. Two older folk had been pushed to the ground when we arrived at which time we assisted them to their feet and focused on getting you all to the nearest exit where the police magically appeared. As we assisted we were spat at, had what I think was water thrown on us, pushed and one unsuccessful attempt from a male in his twenties to try and punch me. The vile hatred & agitation coming from these people was palpable. I spent 10 years in law enforcement in NZ and can tell you what I witnessed and experienced was a disgrace at many different levels. Principally driven, by a highly compromised, complicit and very biased mainstream media.
I'm sorry you didn't get to speak, I'm sorry my son and I didn't get to hear you speak and I'm sorry you feel like this might be the end of the tour. Nevertheless, I thank you as a dad to a beautiful daughter (who also has been partly poisoned by this ideology) for what you are doing, and as a man who has seen our country deteriorate into some sort of toxic leftist nightmare from the twilight zone. Stay safe always and safe travels, hopefully we get to hear your voice if you ever make it back down here. But I wouldn't blame you if you never do. As you can see from the comments, there are still a few kiwis left that support and stand by what you do.
Kellie-Jay wrote:
This is what happens when lies are spread about women talking about women's rights. The feral mob physically attacked women, an older woman got punched in the face, she had a black eye. Soup was poured on Kellie-Jay and security. The police were nowhere to be seen. Hang your heads in shame NZ police.
Please watch:
The following article written by Brendan O’Neill published by The Spectator, is spot on.
The shameful persecution of Posie Parker in New Zealand
By Brendan O’Neill • 25 March 2023, 1:29pm
This is what it must have been like when women were marched to the stake. Yesterday in Auckland the British women’s rights campaigner Posie Parker found herself surrounded by a deranged, heaving mob. She had tomato soup and placards thrown in her face. She was doused with water. Huge men screamed insults and expletives in her face. The shoving of the crowd became so intense that Parker feared for her life. ‘I genuinely thought that if I fell to the floor I would never get up again’, she said. ‘My children would lose their mother and my husband would lose his wife.’
It was a truly chilling spectacle. The mobs’ faces were twisted into masks of feral hatred. They ranted in frenzy as the diminutive Parker, her bottle-blonde hair stained orange from the soup that had been dumped on her, desperately tried to make her way to the safety of a police car. It was a ritualistic shaming of a witch, a violent purging of a heretic.
Next time you’re reading a history book and find yourself wondering how Salem came to be consumed by such swirling hysteria, watch the clips of Posie’s persecution in New Zealand. This is how it happens. This is how the fear of witches can overrule reason and unleash the darkest, most punitive passions of the mob.
And what is Parker’s crime? What did this witch do? She said, ‘A woman is an adult human female’. That’s it. Parker, whose real name is Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, is well known for her criticism of the ideology of transgenderism. She thinks a man never becomes a woman, no matter how many hormones he takes or surgeries he undergoes. She thinks if you were born male, you will die male, and in the time in between you have no right whatsoever to enter any women-only space.
This is heresy. Dissenting from the gospel of gender ideology is to the 21st century what dissenting from the actual gospels was to the 15th. And so Parker must be punished. It was a modern-day stoning, so mercifully they only threw soup and water and planks of cardboard at the blasphemer.
Parker organises public events called ‘Let Women Speak’. She has done it across the UK, in parts of the US, and for the past couple of weeks she’s been doing it in Australia and New Zealand.
It’s a genius initiative. She knows these gatherings of women who merely want to give voice to their profane belief that sex can never be changed will draw out crowds of intolerant trans activists and their allies. She knows the ‘Be Kind’ mob will do everything in its power to stop women from speaking. And she knows it will all brilliantly illustrate her core belief: that trans activism is misogyny in disguise, misogyny in drag, if you like, and that it has devoted itself to silencing women who believe in biology.
Australia and New Zealand played their parts brilliantly in Parker’s clever scheme. From Melbourne to Canberra, Hobart to Auckland, huge crowds of the right-on turned up to drown out the voices of the pesky women who dare to call men ‘men’. ‘Let women speak’, Parker says. ‘No’, says the mob. She incites them to confess their misogyny and intolerance in full public view. And they do.
Auckland was the worst. At Albert park in the centre of the city yesterday, the mob could not hide its vengeful loathing of the uppity women who disagree with its ideologies. Parker is a new kind of witch, one who willingly submits herself to a witch-trial, so that the rest of us might see just how dogmatic and unforgiving the new witch-hunters are. I am full of admiration for her. Her courage is shining a light on the visceral intolerance that advances under the banner of identity politics.
The events in Auckland should be a wake-up call for liberals everywhere. We glimpsed the iron fist of authoritarianism that lurks in the velvet glove of ‘Be Kind’. The misogynistic streak in trans extremism is undeniable now. Watch enraged men kicking down metal barriers so that they might get closer to the witch Posie and tell me this isn’t sexism masquerading as radicalism. Witness the crowing of men who are delighted that the mob made the ‘coward TERF’ run away and tell me this isn’t chauvinism on steroids. Behold the use of megaphones and expletive-laden chants and physical menace to silence a woman and tell me this isn’t a sexist, censorious crusade against women’s freedom of speech.
That mob in Auckland did not emerge out of thin air. No, it was a brutish manifestation of a regressive idea that has been taking hold for some years. Namely, that it should be forbidden to dissent from gender ideology. That it is bigotry to state biological facts. That it ought to be a punishable offence – whether that punishment is being No Platformed or sacked or having objects thrown in your face – to say men are men and women are women.
To see where censorship ends up, just look at those grimacing agitators in Auckland, hatred spreading like a current through their number, as they fight with every fibre of their being to prevent the expression of a critical idea. Censorship begets bigotry. It begets violence itself. For the more we tell people that certain words will hurt them, the more we witlessly incite people to hurt those who dare to utter certain words.
That mob was drunk on sanctimony. This is what happens when we tell people their identity is the most important thing in the world and that anything that so much as grazes their self-esteem is an outrage that must be crushed. We nurture a generation of navel-gazing Torquemadas. Posie has exposed them, yet again, and for that she deserves our thanks. This time round, the witches might just win.
WRITTEN BY
Brendan O’Neill is Spiked's chief politics writer
There is even more support for Kellie-Jay now thanks to the horrific treatment she and her supporters received during her trip, especially in Auckland. At the same time, some of the neanderthals are digging themselves in more deeply.
“Has he officially joined @Womans_Place_UK?” asks Kellie-Jay in her retweet of this.
Although we women have had to look after ourselves for a very long time and continue to do so, I certainly appreciate the sentiment.
Kellie-Jay, I hope that you are on your way back home here to the UK where many more people will hopefully have awakened to the true toxic nature of the cult.
#LetWomenSpeak
Thank you for sharing. Otherwise I would not have known. Those police and everyone that supported the evil were and are wrong.
They have placed themselves with the totalitarianism movements of hate.
Too many focus on Nazism, Fascism , Soviet style Communism, or Chinese Communism, all dictator totalitarian movements that all stem from socialism gone crazy on hate.
The police should be ashamed, the politicians should also. Really anyone who participated in the attack or supported the attack as well.
Hate is the primary thing in this fake gender studies, coupled with plastic people of no morals, you get to the anarchy and then socialist dictators (happens all the time in South America).
There is only man and woman, not 17 made up sexes.
These mentality challenged transgender Believers are lost.
Thanks so much!
"Be kind", very true that this is a totalitarian edict.