What’s going on

Kellie-Jay Keen at Spiked:

For starters, the media in Australia and New Zealand are lost. They will tell straight-up lies. I became this monster. Before I even got to Australia, the media reported on me as if I were some hugely influential figure. And actually, thanks to how the media behaved, by the time I left I really was having an influence. Hopefully I’ve changed some of the landscape for women in both New Zealand and Australia.

During a livestream, I was fiddling with the zip on my clothing and the New Zealand news channel, Newshub, blurred my hand out. It said I was actually giving a white-power signal.

The prime minister of New Zealand even got involved. There was a High Court hearing to try to stop me going into New Zealand. When I arrived at the airport, I was taken into a room and interrogated for two hours. Someone looked through all my suitcases. I got a note through my hotel door from someone saying that they knew what I was wearing, that they hated me and they could see me. All of that was before I even got to the event.

The Green senator for Tasmania, Nick McKim, said that TERFs should be known as ‘trans-exclusionary right-wing dropkicks’ or ‘TERDs’. Well, ‘dropkick’ is short for ‘dropkick and punt’, which is Australian rhyming slang for the C-word. So that’s what he called me in parliament.

The people who say these vile things about me are treated as heroes. And what was interesting was that very few media outlets even discussed what my issue was. They just said I was ‘anti-trans’. There was nothing about the fact I campaign to protect women-only spaces. I was just monstered.

On the other hand, I’ve had so many letters from women that say they had never heard of me until everyone started saying that I was this terrible person. And they went to my website, and now they love what I do. I expect there will be a lot more of that in the coming weeks.

So what has happened in New Zealand is actually a spectacular win. Part of this activism has always been that I want John the scaffolder down the road to know that his daughter has likely been taught gender-ideology nonsense at school. I want normal, working people to understand what’s going on. Because at the moment, this has been a top-down, manipulative, coercive movement. What we’ve done with that New Zealand flashpoint is we’ve basically said: ‘Hey, everybody, look at this – this is what’s really happening.’...

Those trans activists always do my work better than I ever could. They raise the issue and put a spotlight on exactly what’s going on.

 

Comments

[Graham]

'The Green senator for Tasmania, Nick McKim, said that TERFs should be known as ‘trans-exclusionary right-wing dropkicks’ or ‘TERDs’. Well, ‘dropkick’ is short for ‘dropkick and punt’, which is Australian rhyming slang for the C-word. So that’s what he called me in parliament.'

This is shocking, isn't it? Am I massively old-fashioned? How has society changed so much that anyone - let alone a politician - would say this?

[Mick H]

Well, this is the point: old-fashioned outright misogyny has made a comeback under the guise of "progressive" trans ideology.