Posie Parker

The Briton is a women's rights campaigner to some and an anti-trans activist to others. She has speaking engagements in Auckland and Wellington this weekend as ...

[Immigration Minister Michael Wood labelled her views “](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/131572087/immigration-minister-prefers-antitrans-activist-kelliejay-keenminshull-never-set-foot-in-nz) [repugnant”](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/131572087/immigration-minister-prefers-antitrans-activist-kelliejay-keenminshull-never-set-foot-in-nz)and the groups she was linked to as “vile”. [filed for a judicial review in the High Court](https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/131584121/human-rights-groups-seek-interim-order-to-stop-posie-parker-coming-to-nz). However, on Friday [a judge ruled that the visit could go ahead](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/131588510/antitrans-activist-kelliejay-keens-visit-can-go-ahead-judge-rules). [far-right hosts who have promoted conspiracy theories](https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/21-03-2023/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-anti-trans-campaigner-heading-to-new-zealand). - The National Party is for letting Keen-Minshull into the country as we have a free and liberal democracy. “As a country we need to keep our trans community close, and support them through this time.” - Her activism in the UK has seen her become a key figure in the movement against the UK’s Gender Recognition Act. Standing for Women fosters “a community in which all women feel empowered to speak. They were also seeking an interim order to stop Keen-Minshull from entering the country until the judicial review could take place. She has speaking engagements in Auckland and Wellington this weekend as part of her Let Women Speak tour. We hope that providing a specific platform for a finite period of time will allow for important debate and different points of view, without the open slather of social media and the risk of discussions being hijacked by extreme views. Stuff’s Difficult Conversations is a safe space for Aotearoa to constructively discuss topics which can be polarising but still deserve reasoned debate and dialogue.

Controversial anti-transgender activist Posie Parker claims her group faces a $10,000 bill for hiring security in New Zealand after bad publicity of her ...

A legal expert says the immigration standards being applied to controversial activist Posie Parker (Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull) are different from those that ...

“It would be very helpful for Immigration New Zealand to actually release their reasons [in the Keen-Minshull case] and any advice to the Minister, because the short quotes in the press release don’t explain the difference in treatment [from Odd Future]. [The Front Page](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1049-the-front-page-30038501/) podcast for a discussion on these issues and more. Clarke says this all points to the level of discretion afforded to immigration officials who are required to make these decisions. And should we allow activists like Keen-Minshull to occupy our public spaces? So, are there any legal steps available to those opposed to Keen-Minshull entering New Zealand? That was enough for Immigration NZ to ban them.”

Yesterday afternoon, InsideOUT, Auckland Pride, and Gender Minorities Aotearoa took Immigration Minister Michael Wood to court over Immigration NZ's decision to ...

"Please note that rallies and protests at public spaces do not require event permits. "This is unsafe for our community." "Things changed very drastically in Melbourne when the neo-Nazis showed up and started pulling Nazi salutes. But I think there's a potential for violence from her side," he said. "We are moving quickly," he said. Otherwise, we will be out there peacefully protesting."

The Free Speech Union will be an intervener this morning as the High Court considers whether Immigration New Zealand's decision to allow Posie Parker ...

This morning, we will fight to protect Kiwis' free speech (including the right to hear others' speech)." "Crown Law has indicated that they will argue that there is no evidence that Posie Parker poses a harm to New Zealand. We must ensure that the strongest arguments are made in favour of free speech.

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said he is seeking urgent advice from the commissioner of the Australian Federal Police after independent senator Lidia Thorpe ...

Thorpe was tackled by a security guard and a police officer as she strode towards Keen-Minshull. “I was very concerned to see videos of Senator Thorpe being pulled to the ground by the police and this should absolutely be investigated by the AFP,” she said. “I have sought urgent advice from the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police. Comment has been sought via Keen-Minshull’s website. They prompted fierce condemnation in federal parliament this week, and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton Greens senators Janet Rice and David Shoebridge were seen at a counter-protest alongside trans rights demonstrators.

The conservative organisation that paid for controversial British anti-transgender activist Posie Parker, also known as Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, ...

Australian Greens senator and parent of a trans son Nick McKim has told anti-trans pundit Posie Parker to 'get in the bin'

“Another pathetic excuse for a human being, who goes by the name of Kimberley Allen, deadnamed my stepson Jasper Lees on Twitter,” McKim said. They’re not TERFs, they are TERDs.” “There are plenty of transphobes like her who are not feminists and we need to call Posie and Kimberley and their ilk what they actually are. [rally in Hobart](https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/21/posie-parker-australia-hobart/) on Tuesday (21 March). [attended the rally.](https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/19/dan-andrews-neo-nazis-posie-parker-event-australia/) An Australian politician has said anti-trans pundit Posie Parker has a “dark and warped soul”, and called for her to “get in the bin”, following political backlash to her visit to Australia.

High Court Justice David Gendall regretfully allows anti-trans activist to enter NZ, but warns the expression of her views may be harmful to NZ's vulnerable ...

In my view, the language of immigration laws and funding policies and public health advice can never be entirely prescriptive – it must allow a degree of flexibility to respond to differing circumstances. So it's very difficult for the Parliamentary Counsel Office to anticipate changing cultural morés and scientific understanding of how people live and inter-relate. Threats to the "public order" or "public interest" aren't defined by the Immigration Act 2009, but my perfunctory entry-level law studies would suggest that the terms would have to be interpreted narrowly before the courts would intervene in a person's freedom of movement. Every year, we debate the entry of some controversial public speaker or rapper or idealogue, and most people's position seems to have more to do with their adjacency to the visitor's views, than about public order. Because she is entitled to her own identity, and to expect the basic civility from others of recognising that identity. Reader donations are critical to what we do. Or the somewhat spurious reports of public funding being scrapped for the popular Sheilah Winn Shakespeare festival? She characterises mums and dads who support their loved trans children as "groomers". But she's irritated that she should even have to engage on such polarising anecdotes. On the most part, the definition of a threat to "security" seems to be about defence, spying and organised crime – so Parker probably doesn't cross that threshold. Posie Parker with her financial links to rightwing groups like the Trump-affiliated Conservative Political Action Conference. And that's what I'm going to call her.