Anti-trans protester Posie Parker will not be denied entry to New Zealand so is set to hold her controversial rallies in Auckland and Wellington this weekend.
Counter-protests are being planned and the Immigration Minister’s made his disapproval of Parker crystal clear.
A self-identified TERF- aka a radical transphobe – is coming to Aotearoa.
“No woman has a penis… no man has a vagina,” she said.
In a statement, Immigration Minister Michael Wood said Parker’s case was a decision for officials.
He condemned her for world views he called “inflammatory, vile and incorrect”.
“I find many of her views repugnant, and am concerned by the way in which she courts some of the most vile people and groups around including white supremacists,” Wood said.
The Minister has done the right thing here.
Make no mistake, Posie Parker is a radioactive Trans Troll anger grifter who is in it for the attention and clickbait donations, she has the right to Free Speech and because we are a liberal progressive democracy, we stand up for free speech, not censorship.
Her popularity has been driven by militant woke activists who lash out at anyone who doesn’t accept their woke identity politics ideology, Posie Parker is what happens when you refuse to have a debate about the issue.
This entire issue has caused immense damage on the Left and rather than debating the material well being of citizens, we are lost in middle class identity politics virtue signalling that censors rather than answers and in that cultural space, anger grifters like Posie Parker flourish.
This is a liberal progressive democracy and while I certainly think Posie Parker is a bad faith actor, she has the right to speak, equally however, we all have the right to protest her and challenge her.
The danger is now how that protest occurs.
She has dangerously decided to hold her speech in Albert Park, I say dangerously because it allows for a free for all to occur, which is precisely what she wants.
The issue right now is one of immediacy, how to protest her toxic rhetoric without making it a propaganda win is what matters this weekend.
Right after her speech though, the entire community need to actually step back and consider how the militant Trans woke activists have alienated everyone else and created the environment where anger grifters like Posie Parker can thrive.
I have many self declaring feminist women who privately tell me they have real misgivings with some of the Trans woke dogma but are terrified of saying anything because the Fourth Wave Feminists, non-binary activists and trans ally vegan mommy bloggers rip them to pieces on social media.
For me the true tragedy here for the Trans community is how quickly their alienating and over the top attacks along with their fourth wave feminist allies have eroded and burnt so much of the good will the rainbow community had built in the 80s, 90s and 00s.
The rainbow community pre Trans activism had worked to make love and family inclusive, the new woke Trans activists built pure temple cliques that created diversity by cancelling everyone who didn’t agree with them.
Because the woke activists rely on echo bunkers and cancel culture, they have lost the ability to persuade and because the Left is overrun by the woke that inability to win over people is rife throughout the movement.
I don’t think this protest can occur without something awful happening and a large part of that is because we’ve generated that environment by refusing to actually engage and win people over.
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Once again Martyn, I think you are mischaracterising Posey.
But keep going with that (not) ….all it does is marginalize women with gender critical views more
Anker Agree 100% re the mischaracterising.
Get the dad’s. Have a civil discussion. And don’t push it.
A classic situation where a nuanced, dialectical approach is needed rather than ugg!!–me right you wrong–ugghhha!!
–A class left approach is to support the rights of all exploited, alienated, marginalised and oppressed people which includes transgender, non binary AND biological women and lesbian women. Women with uteruses are just over 50% of the population, the patriarchy is still a thing, and immensely powerful.
–Divisions within the exploited, alienated, marginalised and oppressed need to be dealt with rather than cowering in fear or ignoring them because that just aids the capitalist class and bourgeoisie who thrive on division amongst the the working and middle classes.
@TM. Don’t even bother responding to He She It Her Him. You’ll regret it and only embolden He She It Her Him’s sense of victimhood.
It’s a real shame Georgina Beyer couldn’t have been the moderator of this site. Christ Almighty there’d be a few she’d have done battle with.
Fuck your patriarchy bullshit.
Men didn’t build society for other men. They built it to make life easier to form a family. To protect and provide for them.
100%
More to protect their territory.
The Greens have shown their attitude to free speech and thinking .I hope people remember this when casting their vote. I do not hold with most of what this person says but when you listen to what she says their are points that are valid .and are of concern.
Does anyone else find it strange that a bunch of blokes are trying to stop a some stroppy shela from speaking about shela stuff?
It seems to me that a bloke can put on a frock and he (or she?) has more right to speak for the shelas than the actual shekas.
My mother was an old school WW2 nurse, tough as nails, she took no nonsense from anyone. If any bloke told her what to do there would be hell to pay.
I’m on the side of the stroppy shelas, they fight dirty and blokes need to STFU or they will get eaten alive by the hairy legged feminists wearing sensible shoes.
Best thing to do is head off to the pub have a couple of beers
“Minister Michael Wood did the right thing”
Now there’s a first!
It seems to be mostly men upset about this.
I’ve seen gay men, men wearing a frock, women who were born with a penis, and young people “who are different” TM. But I don’t seem to see women, especially those of us who have been around for years anywhere near this discussion. And I can tell you why, a bloke in a frock can punch just as hard as a bloke in a rugby jersey
most mtf’s eat once a day and carry at least 40% less body weight than had they remained male
they cannot run as fast anymore and without T everything physical is weaker
and they are kinder than before too
Sallyanne. Yep, it’s men having attacks of hysteria about a woman speaking about women, and that’s always been the way of the world. We women are far too busy.
Scrappers looking for a scrap are a colossal waste of everybody’s time. Some feared someone could get killed at the Parliamentary protest when again the politicians didn’t want to hear what people had to say, and hid away, and only the cops copped varying degrees of injury. Hopefully no one will get hurt this time, but media wilfully misrepresenting this speaker’s platform are prostituting their jobs.
Get the fire trucks with water connections out ready to hose the hotheads down. That will tend to break up the central fight and the police can catch the outliers and shut them in a pen with thick chain-link fencing and let them fight it out under controlled conditions. These are people who think through their muscles, not their brains so let them get it out of their system. On the way they will find if they are real men or not!
Self declaring feminist women. Not only women Martyn (where were these newly found right wing male feminists supporting women on other women’s equality issues?)
I can see where she’s coming from but the notoriety has gone to her head with her neo feminist look and all that attention seeking crap. Yes, we all know there are male opportunist douche bags everywhere but surely genuine trans people just want to fit in, somewhere, without a lot of fuss. There are a lot of minefields on this subject and, as a cis (yes it’s catching) male with no foreskin in the game, (yes, abused and mutilated as a baby) I’ll just watch from the edges.
If this woman is really talking up trans people grooming, then she is an idiot. We all know who the groomers are and they ain’t “taking a walk on the wild side”
Jesus what a bunch of crappy comments. She’s a marketed brand for a reason, that reason being reason itself. If you are incarcerated with a thing that identifies as female but has an erect penis and proceeds to repeatedly stick it in you and you have no way to escape you’re not going to be inclined to enjoy the LGBTQ experience are you?
There is the same difference between being pro-woman and being anti-trans as there is between being jewish and being a zionist. A vast, vast difference.
just as a reference:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11891657/Ive-lost-friends-completely-disavowed-Whistleblower-says-BLACKBALLED-LGBTQ-pals.html
Yes, jane post. This speaker is a mother of four, from a big Uk city, who intends running for the UK Parliament. Looks pretty good for a woman who has birthed four children, and this is what’s freaking these males out. If she was an old frump then they probably wouldn’t be quite so incoherent, but Kiwi males are floored by good-looking or talented or articulate women, mores the pity. They had Germaine Greer arrested for using a four letter word, and banned cutie Mandy Rice-Davies as a threat to our morals. Thanks for nothing, boys.
The Main Show
War up
Geopolitic Tension up
Interest up
Bank Crisis up
Food up
Poverty up
Truancy Up
CO2 up
Temperatures up
Flooding up
Times up
Let’s Go To The Side Show.
Roll up to see the Amazing Bearded Lady and The Man Without A Penis vs the Feisty Pommy Git Girl and the NeoNazi. Tickets on sale at Albert Park, Sat.
Also, live this weekend. Winston Peters rising from a political grave.
Isn’t it great, we can judge someone as this, that and the other, and then give them no right of return. Ain’t it just dandy, the ruling class toffs, salutes you – yet again.
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