Feminist campaigner says she stopped supporting trans rights after being beaten and raped by transgender woman
A speaker at a women’s rights event silenced her listeners after revealing her conversion to the cause came after she was raped and beaten by a transgender woman.
The woman, who gave her name as “Kay,” spoke publicly about her experiences for the first time at a Let Women Speak event in Oklahoma, which was on the front lines of the battle for trans rights.
“Up until that point, I was just like everyone else: live and let live,” she said, her voice shaking.
“Ten is the number of years it has been since I was brutally beaten and raped by a trans-identified man. It took one time for me to change my mind. To open my eyes and see how our rights and protections are being eroded away.”
The woman, who gave her name as “Kay,” captured her audience’s attention when she opened up about her experience of being raped by a trans woman at a Let Women Speak event in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt banned transgender girls and women from competing on female sports teams in his state in 2022, and more than a dozen states have followed suit
Dozens of women lined up to speak at the event in Tulsa on Friday, with many decrying Joe Biden’s overhaul of Title IX protections to promote children’s LGBTQ rights.
The rewrite bans discrimination based on gender identity and makes schools vulnerable to lawsuits if they ban trans students from locker rooms, restrooms or girls’ dorms.
Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters has ordered the state’s schools to “completely ignore” the new rules, denouncing them as “the most devastating attack on women’s rights in the history of our country.”
But Kay, who goes by the X name @FemalesUniteUSA, has destroyed the state’s reputation for women’s rights.
“Forty-nine percent of women in our state have experienced domestic violence,” she said.
“That makes Oklahoma the number one state for male violence against women.”
The state passed a law in May 2022 requiring public school students to use restrooms based on the gender listed on their birth certificate.
16-year-old non-binary teen Nex Benedict died a day after being beaten by girls in an Oklahoma school bathroom in February last year
Hundreds of people attended a candlelight vigil for Nex, but a medical examiner ultimately concluded that the teen committed suicide with a drug overdose.
The case sparked a huge backlash, with Senator Tom Woods (left) calling transgender people “filth” when questioned about the deaths, and state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters (right) blaming “radical leftists” for the backlash.
But Oklahoma mother Theresa Gooden claims the law was still not enforced months later when her 15-year-old daughter was “severely beaten” by a transgender classmate in the girls’ bathroom at Edmond Memorial High School.
Hundreds of trans activists occupied the capital last year in protest against a bill banning gender confirmation surgery for children under 21.
And many returned for vigils in support of nonbinary teen Nex Benedict, whose assault by girls in an Oklahoma school bathroom landed them in the hospital in February, just a day before their deaths.
The state medical examiner ultimately concluded that the 16-year-old intentionally committed suicide with a drug overdose, and investigators concluded no crime had been committed.
Dozens of states have joined the pushback against Title IX reforms intended to “ensure that no one experiences sex discrimination in federally funded education” when they take effect on August 1.
“The bottom line is this is the case,” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis tweeted last month.
‘Injecting men in women’s toilets and changing rooms is not good for women. Involving boys in girls’ sports is not good for girls. This is bad policy, but it is also not constitutional.
“They are twisting the law in an attempt to impose an ideological agenda on the rest of the country.”
The latest Title IX text describes “wrong” trans students as “harassment,” and Walters warned that a school is in danger if it fails to use student pronouns.
“It is time for every state leader to stand up and say enough about this ridiculous charade that is erasing women and endangering their safety,” he said.
The UK-based Let Women Speak organization has organized events across Europe and the US to “foster a community where all women feel empowered to speak.”
But the events have been repeatedly denounced by trans activists, and leader Kellie-Jay Keen has received repeated threats of violence over her activism.
Layla Le Fey, a trans woman from Brighton in southern England, was given a suspended prison sentence last month for threatening to “physically kick the shit out of you, rip out your eyes and break your spine.”
Dozens of women lined up Friday to share their experiences at the event in Tulsa
Campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen – also known as Posie Parker – has organized Let Women Speak events across Europe and the US.
The event in Tulsa passed off without incident and sympathizers praised Kay for her courage in revealing the attack.
“I fear there may be hundreds, thousands of women and girls who have been assaulted or raped by such men and are afraid to talk about it,” one wrote.
“Her courage, strength and words are so inspiring,” added local organizer Allie Snyder.
“She was a vital part of the success of our event and we’re going to get after it locally here, along with the other great Okie women here.”