Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, also known as Posie Parker, is the leader of political party Party of Women and also leader campaigner of her own movement Let Women Speak. Keen-Minshull is an anti-transgender and gender-critical activist, using Let Women Speak to lead an international tour spreading her vitriol through public rallies.
Keen-Minshull does not only have a political background in women’s rights, she has been tied to white supremist groups as well. Although she has denied all ties to Neo-Nazi groups, Keen-Minshull has previously used a Barbie wearing a Nazi uniform as her profile picture on social media. At a rally in Australia, footage shows Nazi supporters, members of the National Socialist Movement, marching and saluting in support- to which Keen-Minshull has claimed, without due evidence, that these individuals were disguised trans activists. These far-right supporters chanted ‘white power’.
Despite casting herself as a defender of freedom of speech, Keen-Minsull’s political party calls to ‘ban the use of terms like “assigned at birth,” “cisgender”’. The contradiction is humourlessly ironic as freedom of speech seems to apply only to her political party’s opinions.
Choosing the label ‘women’s rights activist’ over feminist, Keen-Minshull rejects feminist efforts to deconstruct the patriarchy
Let Women Speak’s rallies have been branded ‘aggressive’, as a transgender woman was injured at a counter-protest in Nottingham in February. The woman reported that there were groups of men pushing and shoving the women in the crowd, chanting ‘pedophile’ repeatedly. This kind of hostility and aggression towards the transgender community is unbelievably dangerous.
Choosing the label ‘women’s rights activist’ over feminist, Keen-Minshull rejects feminist efforts to deconstruct the patriarchy and instead targets the smallest, most vulnerable and persecuted group in society; as if the 0.1% of British society, transgender women, are the individuals responsible for the systemic inequality between men and women. Through Keen-Minshull’s public opinions on transgender people, we are seeing a concerning resurgence of the kind of hatred that branded gay men pedophiles during the Thatcher years.
Between her anti-LGBTQ+ rallies and her Neo-Nazi roots, Keen-Minshull has garnered terrifying support from the far-right.
While her supporters remain in small numbers, winning just 196 votes in the 2024 general election, the beliefs that she campaigns for, and the methods with which she campaigns, are unequivocally dangerous to the LGBTQ+ community, and society as a whole.
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