'Go home c*nt!'

My working title for the anthology of firsthand accounts I am compiling from women who, like me, were violently silenced at the largest (and loudest) anti-women protest the world has ever seen.

Auckland’s Albert Park, March 25, 2023. Image (from video) credit Simon Anderson

The face (and 6ft 4 figure) of ‘trans love’ (circled in the crowd shot above). Photo with zoom taken by the woman who was stood next to me. He was sneering at us.

Three of the dozens of violent anti-woman placards the ‘kindness’ brigade brought along to the Auckland protest against Posie and her mostly female supporters

The working subtitle is: ‘The day 2,000 people came out to silence women campaigning for the right to pee in peace.’

Or: ‘When calling a woman a “cunt” and telling her to “suck my dick” is seen as “kind” and “inclusive”’. 🙄

If anyone wants to suggest another subtitle I’m all ears. And if anyone out there attended the Albert Park LWS rally in Auckland that fateful day in March 2023 and wants to tell their story, feel free to private message me about it.

My T-shirt that day read simply LET WOMEN SPEAK in letters far smaller than these. Posie’s top read simply ‘WOMAN’ in a pale silver. Yet we and the 60-100 other, mostly older women attending the rally in support of Posie that day were the ones deemed by media, politicians and the mob to be a threat to NZ values of tolerance and inclusivity, freedom and equality, while the 2,000 protesters of all ages and both sexes (though they had more males than females), calling us c*unts and loudly shouting and shoving us down, were the good guys representing a fair-minded and progressive country. 🙄

And we were deemed to be so intolerant, ignorant and homophobic by all these alphabet activists and allies that it justified this threatening, almost lethal mass protest being waged against us in a public park, with a sizeable police presence, to stop us from simply speaking about women’s rights and child safeguarding. Our words saying things like men can’t be women, transitioning kids is abuse, women need safe spaces without men, etc., were deemed so very harmful that they justified our public silencing with their sexist and aggressive words and noise makers, including a truck with speakers parked nearby, various portable ghetto blasters playing at full volume, hundreds of whistles, even bull horns, and all with a discordant symphony of screaming us into all but silent submission and fear while the police turned their backs. The police commander of operations that day, possibly a trans man larping as a woman, was even found sitting under a tree after the mob went feral, and told our police liaison marshal who begged him to help the women trapped in the middle of the mob that had by that time broken down the barriers and trapped Kellie-Jay and supporters in the rotunda: ‘We are not here to protect you.’

Perhaps that might make a good subtitle:

GO HOME C*NT!

‘We’re not here to protect you’

Two years later the NZ ‘Independent Police Authority’ (IPA) has finally released a report on this protest in response to hundreds of complaints to Police made (one by me) about the lack of uniformed protection for women that day, women who simply wanted to speak up for ourselves and for all of our children. This lack of policing meant one grandmother of 71 was punched repeatedly in the face by a 20-year-old male, in broad daylight with lots of people around, leaving her with a massive black eye and fractured eye-socket, as well as dizziness and anxiety.

Her abuser who fired his punches two feet in front of me, close enough for me to see the hate in his eyes for that older woman who dared to stand up for herself, was charged with assault but escaped a conviction later in court. The judge suggested he had learnt his lesson and had shown remorse. But why is it that violent men are so often let off being punished for their crimes against women, where their female victims who just want to speak up for ourselves in public or have some other peaceful agenda must be punished and silenced?

The response from the NZ Women’s Rights Party that was formed in the wake of this violent protest and police inaction to the IPA report.

One of the main lies the Women’s Rights Party claims is made in the IPA report is that the Police helped Posie and the marshals get out of the mob scrum that day. But as this shot and the the video in total clearly shows, Police did not help Posie and supporters escape the scrum that day. As the full video of this nightmare escape clearly shows, Police stood or even sat back in their van on the street (where the white house is in the top picture, so a long way back) till Posie, her marshals and guards had emerged from the full force of that violent mob intent upon hurting and maybe killing her, as she feared, with her appearance as the first Police emerged to defend her, in visible shock and literally drenched in the mob’s hateful projectiles, being evidence of this shameful dereliction of duty.

And as tough as guts as the 5ft-nothing powerhouse that is Kellie-Jay Keen Minshull aka Posie Parker is, as you can see here at the point of surviving — just — her brush with death, she admitted she thought she would not survive it, with her female, especially her mother’s instincts for male danger no doubt informing this fear.

For, she pretty surely, without her older female marshals, hired security and these men who came to her aid from the crowd, she would have lost her life that day, being pushed to the ground and trampled on, kicked in the head, etc. That is what around 2,000 people there that day wanted to do to her. And but for her three, very small but mighty female marshals (in orange vests) who kept her on her feet, as did her sturdier right-hand woman Tania who had helped organized bringing her out from the UK on behalf of the local Let Women Speak group, who was instead pushed to the ground and kicked till she feared for life. Fortunately her paid security guards (in picture) and one retired police officer physically stood between her, her marshals and supporters, and the big blokes baying for hers, and all the other women’s blood who DARED to speak against the men.

It took all of these people to get Kellie-Jay safely through and out of the baying mob that was allowed to stand over her in a blind rage, to spray her and supporters with tomato juice and water — what the women feared with good reason as men who hate women like to use acid — and generally to treat her and her supporters like the worst kinds of humans that don’t deserve even the basics of human respect and decency. When in fact she/we Terf women standing up for women and children are in fact some of the best kinds of humans, fighting as we do for the vulnerable who can’t fight for themselves.

Shaneel Lal

But Shaneel Lal, the main woman-hater behind organizing this protest, who was present with bull-horn at the protest, is the person the media, politicians and mainstream public prefer. Lal, a gay man who uses ‘they/them’ pronouns, has been endlessly lauded in this country (this image from a 2021 article in the NZ Herald ) as ‘a powerful voice of a generation’ for his vanity and misogyny ‘services to the alphabet’ (‘Queer community’).

After the Albert Park protest in 2023 he was awarded the prize of ‘Young New Zealander of the Year’, just a week after he facilitated the violent silencing and intimidation of many older women.

He is the same age (now 30, 28 at the time) as the Green Party co-leader and lesbian Chloe Swarbrick who was another of the ring-leaders behind this violent anti-woman protest. And it strikes me that this woman’s similar prettiness and youth (30 just turned) has also helped her sell all manner of trans/queer propaganda to the NZ public and parliament.

Only one of these three people is fit for politics. She is the older, altogether more disheveled (here) one without the six-figure salaried job in politics (Lal has now been hired by the Labour Party)

The pair of them are enough to make me favour an increase in the minimum age for politicians to 30 rather than 18 that it is currently set at.

Swarbrick is also the same age as my estranged daughter who is a fan of hers and of the ‘be kind to men in dresses and hateful to women who object to these men in our spaces and faces’ brigade. Last week Swarbrick helped organize another protest for the alphabet people at the same Albert Park rotunda, this time against the Destiny Church ‘Man up’ haka (war dance) in protest against drag story-time to children going on at a local library in honour of Pride month. This clip is from Billboard Chris who got over a million views for it, way more than any other of his many TERF protests against transing children have received.

Then last weekend, back at Albert Park, in an attempt to relive what they clearly see as their moment of glory two years prior, Swarbrick joined the ‘drag king’ and queens whose library reading to children was interrupted by this ‘Man Up’ protest, to speak about the need for ‘love and kindness’ to the ‘rainbow community’. Women’s Rights people considered going along to drown them out, but decided against such lowly tactics. And their protest seems to have been a preaching to the converted situation, with her audience mostly seated and non-committal, including my estranged daughter, if I am still able to identify her from these rear-view photos of the event, having not seen her in the flesh for almost three years, divided by all that ‘kindness and love’ as we are. 😥

That bloody flag! Albert Park pro-Pride (TQ) protest Feb 2025

The NZ Herald that published these photos and article in support of the protest against Destiny Church (and against Posie and her supporters by association with Albert Park and ‘Pride’) quoted Swarbrick as saying:

“The Green Party is focused on what parliament can do immediately to legislate and provide funding for ways to build love, understanding, and tolerance in the community… funding grass-roots rainbow organisations, who are currently doing this mahi [work] on the smell of an oily rag, ensuring that there is proper fulsome funding for gender-affirming care and surgeries, and, ultimately also our government taking some responsibility and getting rid of bills that look to inflame the culture wars of people's access to things like bathrooms.” (emphasis added)

Smell of an oily rag???????? More like smell of a oil-rich man’s pocket! Never has a political cause been so well funded.

She added:

"Look at how we've turned up in force and claimed our power!"

They ARE powerful indeed, but they don’t look it here. They look like a bunch of confused, mostly young people reclining in the shade on a hot day to only half listen to speakers who talk about ‘love and kindness’ with more like hate in their hearts for the women like me who dare to stand up for our rights to reject men’s access to ‘things like’ our toilets and refuges and sports, and against children being poisoned by ‘gender-affirming’ ideas and wrong-sex hormones to believe they were ‘born in the wrong body’ and can change their sex when they can’t.

But they no doubt are, in their numbers and naïve loyalty, a powerful frontline (and cover) for the real TQ movers and shakers and money men operating out of the much bigger countries than New Zealand. We have always been used by such actors to sell radical ideas, as changing minds and policies is much easier in small countries, as both NZ and Ireland showed by passing sex self-ID early on before the bigger countries, moving more slowly, were able to build enough opposition and intelligence to reject it.

The fact that I have produced one of these naïve foot-soldiers for the anti-woman (especially older women) men’s rights cause of our times, is somewhat depressing. But at least I get to see her (I think) when I wouldn’t be able to otherwise, if only from the back. She doesn’t do social media.

It sure is a strange bloody world we’re inhabiting today where so many of our young people, especially our daughters, are politically estranged from their parents while fighting for perverted, angry men to be allowed into women’s sports, services and spaces, and for children to take wrong-sex hormones and get body parts chopped off to pretend they are the opposite sex.

How we are ever going to right that wrong I do not know, but I do know I have to continue fighting for women (and children), including my daughter, and only hope that one day she’ll recognise the value of this fight and join me. 👭💜💚🤍