UK anti-trans activist vows return to NZ to ‘win the war’ and breaks silence on Melbourne neo-Nazis
A British anti-trans campaigner has called New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins a “cockless coward” and vowed to return to the country where “he will apologize to her.”
Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull fled New Zealand last Sunday after throwing tomato juice and eggs at her at a rally in Auckland as part of her ‘Let Women Speak’ tour.
She addresses her fans in a video to raise money on YouTube on Saturday she said she would return to the country for an apology.
Ms Keen-Minshull also broke her silence about the neo-Nazis who had attended one of her rallies in Australia when she visited Melbourne on 18 March.
British anti-trans campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (pictured) has called New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins a ‘cockless coward’ and vowed to return to the country where ‘he will apologize to her’
“We’re going to win this war, women, and then I’ll be back at the invitation of the prime minister, who wants to apologize to everyone,” she said.
“He will apologise, and if it isn’t him, it will be the next Prime Minister because he’s not going to last. He’s a coward with no guts.’
Ms Keen-Minshull was taken to the airport by police a day after the disastrous meeting in Auckland on March 25.
Before she left, she tweeted that NZ was “the worst country for women I’ve visited in a long time.”
A planned event in the capital Wellington was cancelled.
Mr Hipkins condemned the violence at the Auckland rally, but said most of the protesters – who outnumbered Ms Keen-Minshull’s supporters – were respectful.
“I don’t believe people should throw things at a protest, whether they throw soup or a brick,” he said.
“Ultimately, the right to free speech does not extend to the right to physical violence.”
Ms Keen-Minshull said she had not felt safe in New Zealand and was better protected by police in Australia.
She described arriving at Albert Park, where she was to speak, as “not welcoming.”
“The sound was a mob… an aggressive, masculine mob,” she said.
She claimed that the incident left her in fear for her life before appearing to back down on her comments in her latest YouTube video.
Ms Keen-Minshull said having tomato juice thrown at her made her more determined to stand up for women.
“I was in this crowd and this guy threw tomato juice at me. I guess I should have felt humiliated and didn’t want to go any further… but at the time I honestly thought ‘f*** you’, that won’t stop me from talking,” she said.
“That must make me feel awful and stupid looking. But people haven’t come here to see if my hair is curled or my makeup is on,” she said.
Keen-Minshull (pictured) fled New Zealand last weekend after throwing tomato juice and eggs at her at a rally in Auckland as part of her ‘Let Women Speak’ tour
“At that point I thought, ‘I’m going to show the world what this is.’ So I continued filming. I wanted no one to deny the aggressive misogyny of trans activism.”
Ms Keen-Minshull said she felt she was in danger when protesters broke through barriers.
“They are insane, they are an organism of hatred,” she said. “It’s like beasts of burden, it’s insane,” she said.
At the time, she said she thought, “This is what it’s like to die.” I just thought, “I’m being crushed to death.”‘
She flew from Auckland to London, stopping in Dubai, where she said she “felt safer as a woman than in NZ.”
During her broadcast, Ms Keen-Minshull also spoke out about the neo-Nazis who attended her meeting in Melbourne during her tour of Australia in March.
Anti-trans protesters had crashed the rally and delivered the Nazi salute on the steps of the Victorian Parliament.
“There was something very dodgy and orchestrated about the arrival of men who like to wave their hands in the air,” she said.
“There is something very interesting about the fact that those men could have stood anywhere, given their little salute anywhere, but they chose not to do it around women, who could have shown their disgust and upset.
“No, no, no, they did it near the TRAs (trans rights activists) and they looked like they were on the women’s side.”
She added, “There’s something hilarious about the rabid, specific branch of left-wing socialist feminists that I really enjoyed.
“That amused me, even in my darkest hour.”
Anti-trans protesters had crashed the rally and delivered the Nazi salute on the steps of the Victorian Parliament