Controversial ‘anti-trans’ campaigner to hold protest in Sheffield this weekend

A controversial “anti-trans” campaigner will appear in Sheffield this Saturday at a planned protest called: “Let Women Speak Sheffield.”

Posie Parker, also known as Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, is the leader of the Party of Women, a radical, single issue anti-trans political party.

The campaigner has consistently made controversial and offensive public statements, once saying about trans people: “Disgust is a perfectly good reason to reject something. Don’t believe the intellectual rational that asks you to discount it.”

She is also a proponent of a number of anti-trans conspiracy theories.

Sheffield Students’ Union’s LGBTQ+ society, and a number of other groups, are holding a counter-protest at the same time on this Saturday afternoon (21st September), in a show of support for trans people in Sheffield.

In a statement posted to Instagram, they said: “As many of you will be aware, an anti-trans+ protest is coming to Sheffield on Saturday.”

“We, like other groups around the city, will be there, joining the counter demonstration with some of our committee members and officers.”

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The Sheffield Tab contacted Kellie-Jay about her views. When questioned whether she believed her or her movement were “anti trans”, she said: “Let Women Speak is a women’s right’s rally.”

When further questioned about whether she would call her party, the Party of Women, a “radical, single issue anti-trans political party”, her personal assistant replied: “Mrs Keen founded Party Of Women in order to speak about women’s rights in the political arena.

“This is urgent because women are often relegated beyond any other issue. Women must be able to speak about their concerns in the public and political sphere.”

The Sheffield Tab also questioned whether she spread “anti-trans conspiracy theories”, to which, she said: “Advocating that women don’t have penises is not a conspiracy theory.”

Kellie-Jay’s anti-trans protests have been shut down by counter-protestors before. Earlier this year she was “drowned out” by a trans rights group in Edinburgh.

She attempted to run for election as a candidate for the Party of Women at the recent general election in the Bristol Central constituency, but failed to beat Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer, who won the seat.

Kellie-Jay received only 0.5 per cent of votes, meaning that she did not even get enough votes to get back the £500 deposit that general election candidates have to pay to stand.

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