“Posie Parker” / Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull vs. transgender people

“Posie Parker” is a stage name of Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, a British anti-transgender extremist. Keen-Minshull is one of the most strident campaigners against trans rights in history. Keen-Minshull’s events often turn into tense standoffs due to gender-critical and fascist supporters.

Background

Kellie-Jay Nyishie Keen was born June 13, 1974 and grew up in Somerset with an older sibling. Keen earned a bachelor’s degree in theology from University of Leeds. Keen worked for Posie Parker photography, Cornhill Publishing (joining as a consultant in 1999), and GDS International.

Keen-Minshull married Ryan Miles Minshulll aka “Max Ford” (born 1974) in 2008. Minshulll runs DigiLive Events. They have four children: Roman, Artemus, Mabel, and Carter. They were all delivered as c-sections. The youngest was born in ~2008, three days after their marriage.

Anti-trans activism

Keen-Minshull is listed as a leader of three entities:

Standing for Women Limited (incorporated 2023)
AdultHumanFemale.store Limited (incorporated 2021)
Woman By Definition Ltd (incorporated 2020, dissolved 2021)

Keen-Minshull is also a special advisor to anti-trans organization Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF).

Out-of-home ad campaigns

In 2018 Keen-Minshull paid for a billboard in Liverpool that said “woman, wʊmən, noun, adult human female,” a slogan used by anti-transgender activists. It was taken down following complaints. Keen-Minshull then had the same message placed in Leeds, which was also taken down.

In 2020 Keen-Minshull paid for a poster that said “I ♥ JK Rowling” to run in an Edinburgh railway station before it was taken down. This inspired Chris Elston and Amy Hamm to do the same thing in Vancouver. It also inspired Speak Up For Women in New Zealand to place billboards in 2021 that said “adult human female.”

Social media

Keen-Minshull has been temporarily and permanently restricted on various social media platforms.

In 2018 gender critical organization Woman’s Place UK said they would no longer be working with Keen-Minshull. Others have expressed similar concerns due to Keen-Minshull’s association with right-wing and fascist activists.

In 2019 Keen-Minshull and Julia Long recorded themselves verbally abusing trans HRC press secretary Sarah McBride at the US Capitol. HRC then criticized religious conservative group The Heritage Foundation for their role in bringing the two to their event. Keen-Minshull has also published attacks on Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre director Mridul Wadhwa, who is trans.

Keen-Minshull and allies have held anti-trans rallies in Manchester, Bristol, Brighton, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Glasgow. Following a 2020 WoLF conference in New York, Keen-Minshull went to Atlanta for the NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming Championship to protest trans swimmer Lia Thomas. Keen-Minshull then scheduled appearances in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland (cancelled), Tacoma, Austin, Chicago, New York, and Belfast. Following a Melbourne event that was attended by Nazis, Keen-Minshull’s Wellington event shut down early and required a police escort due to the thousands of counter-protestors, one of whom doused Keen-Minshull with tomato soup.

After returning to the UK, Keen-Minshull announced the creation of the Party of Women in order to run for office.

Media

Keen-Minshull is a favored source among right-wing and anti-transgender activists:

Tucker Carlson
Sebastian Gorka
Megyn Kelly
Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad)
Holly Lawford-Smith
Heather Brunskell-Evans
Louise Perry
Jonathan Kay
Brendan O’Neill
Chrissie Mayr
Winston Marshall
Trish Wood
Rob Moore
Peter Hitchens
Meghan Murphy
Zuby
Libby Emmons
Julia Hartley-Brewer
Mark Steyn
Peter Boghossian
Dominique Samuels
Peter Whittle
Benjamin Boyce
Tim Pool

Keen-Minshull has said about cisgender women who support trans rights:

Each and every one of you women who stand in my way–each and every one of you–let me just tell you, you will be annihilated. Because I genuinely don’t lose.

References

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