WOMEN SPEAKING - Let Women Speak - Australia & NZ tour

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Despite many pleas, the original thread was hijacked by people (mostly from the UK) who displayed ZERO interest in watching, appreciating and discussing the ACTUAL SPEECHES:

Let Women SPeak - Australia & NZ tour

IMHO This was profoundly disrespectful to the OP, @ZombieMumEB, who said she hoped to attend some of the events, to Mumsnetters (particularly Australians and New Zealanders) who wanted to discuss the speeches and to the brave, articulate and impassioned women who gave the speeches.

This thread is to discuss the WOMEN SPEAKING.

Please direct complaints about KJK to one of the perennial "We hate Posie" threads.

If you are a UK socfem with a genuine interest in discussing the socfem approach to re-educating the Labour Party, ie. rather than complaining about KJK, start a new thread. This one is about and for the women in Australia and New Zealand who spoke at the #LetWomenSpeak events

Rather than engage with derailments, can we please agree to report them or ignore them?

Australian live streams

Sydney - Sat 11th

Brisbane - Sun 12th

Perth - Tues 14th (see video for Chapters)
Intro (KJK)
Women in Australia (KJK)
Women Speak (KJK)
Sophia Mormont
The Truth
Grandmother
Trans Activist (KJK)
Trans Rights (KJK)
Change Rooms
Im Australia (KJK + Speaker)
Kelly Jane
Maggie (several Speakers)

Adelaide - Thurs 16th

Melbourne - Sat 18th

Melbourne Post Event Chat
(Moira Deering MP, KJK, Katherine Deves, Angie Jones)

Happy Mothers Day! - Sun 19th (KJK)

New Zealand Mon 20th (KJK update)
(Zip-fiddling misrepresented as "White Supremacy" signal)

Hobart - Tues 21st

Canberra Tomorrow - Wed 22nd (KJK update)

Canberra - Thurs 23rd

New Zealand Here I Come (KJK update)

NZ TBC

Auckland - Sat 25th
Wellington Sun 26th

NZ Free Speech Union - 23 March
Justice Gendall has rejected the application to overrule the decision by Immigration New Zealand to allow entry for @/ThePosieParker into the country.
This is the only right result for a nation that values tolerance, the ability to debate, and free speech.
https://twitter.com/NZFreeSpeech/status/1639045241360781312

ThePosieParker - 24 March
Free speech is not an easy principle to uphold, but it is worth protecting. Without it democracy dies.
https://twitter.com/ThePosieParker/status/1639078293990252547

@DameMaud Thanks so much for an excellent beginning in summarising what the women at the NZ & AUS events have been speaking about 👏

If we can keep this thread on topic as per the OP, I think it will be a great resource (and very interesting).

You're welcome Sulis.
It's good to have one thread just focussing on the women speaking isn't it? * *

Please read OP and keep this thread focused on the events.

DameMaud · Today 15:43

Canberra 23/3/23

That is fantastic! I am going to watch Canberra again with that list to hand.

It makes so much difference when there are so many women speaking to have something to help you to focus on each one in turn ❤

Thank you for joining in! I hope that if the NZ speakers refer to local issues or politicians that you can help the rest of us with some context?

Rex is fab! ❤

I’ll try to!

I watched the feminist one yesterday and thought it was very good so will have a look at the others too.

Thank you for this thread.

I note with interest that one derailleur movement has already been attempted and ignored, well done wims.

Onwards.

Let Women Speak NZ 2023

We're here to welcome Kellie-Jay Keen to New Zealand for her Let Women Speak tour. We will speak, we will be heard, and we won't back down!

https://twitter.com/l_o_u_t

(I think mentioned on other thread but thought worth posting again)

A poll on a New Zealand web site shows 56% in favour of allowing the LWS events to take place. (at about mid day 24 March 2023)

Also interesting comments - not sure if they are being monitored.

I have followed KJKs #LetWomenSpeak youtube speakers corner events for a long, long time. They are incredibly special events, I never know what the women who attend and speak are going to say but I am always left awed by the depth of feelings and breadth of experience; I can be laughing one minute, tearful the next. IF you haven't already, have a browse of some of the past yt videos.

Women of all cultures, all colours, all religions or none, all ages. The only 'rule' is they have to be female and they can speak about any subject. It is a public space, we cannot stop anyone from being there, even those who we oppose. Free speech means just that, sometimes people say things we don't like. They have no right to STOP us speaking, though.

KJKs Terf Talk Tuesday is an opportunity to phone in and talk, this means women (and men) from around the world can talk, I've heard some incredible chats.

I attended the Glasgow #LetWomenSpeak event with friends. We travelled together and stuck together because we were scared after reading that TRAs, antifa and furries (convention same weekend) would be there to scream, rant, spit, drown out speakers, intimidate, push, grab and do anything to shut women up. We had watched previous #LetWomenSpeak events in Brighton, Manchester, Newcastle, Bristol where this had happened so yes, we were anxious but this issue is SO important to us for different, personal reasons.

Some of us have school age girls who don't want to be gaslit to accept boys in their toilets and changing rooms, some have aged mums who deserve intimate care from females not larping males. We recognise that women prisoners are already punished by prison and do not deserve further punishment to be housed with males, nor so the female officers deserve to be made to intimately search a male larping as a woman. We are concerned that our children are being groomed to think that they can be born in the wrong body when it is more likely they may be gender non conforming or grow up to be gay/lesbian. We accept that adults can make whatever choices they want, but leave the children be.

We were horrified and baffled by the Scottish Government's tireless pursuit of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill. Nicola Sturgeon and her SNP and even members of Liberal Democrats, Labour, Greens were all supporting a Bill which would have devastating ramifications to women of Scotland. It passed, on 22 December, but ultimately led to the demise of Nicola Sturgeon and she resigned soon after. Incredibly, many SNP supporters (who did not agree with the GRR Bill) were very thankful when the Westminster Parliament stopped the Bill becoming law in Scotland. Never thought I'd see that day . We are living in interesting times.

Live link
https://www.youtube.com/live/eDuy2Kx2HlI?feature=share

This looks awful.

I’m so glad I don’t live there anymore, after watching that live feed I’m shaking

Jesus. They’re completely swamping her and the police have abandoned them: I hope she makes it out

Oh god, I don't know how she hasn't run away screaming!
This is shameful!

This is appalling.

They really don't want to let women speak.

This is obviously the strategy - no police just let them get mobbed.

Let the mob do their dirty work.

Jesus Christ, Aukland is insane
#LetWomenSpeak

Security man has had red liquid thrown all over him. I think it'sgot KJ too

NZ police deserted me when I rang them for help from an abusive man when I was 11, and nothing has changed now. I’m truly ashamed. What a disgusting place New Zealand is. Thank you UK for taking us in, I’ll never regret leaving that shithole

JFC what the hell is going on in Auckland.

What’s going on is people in NZ hate women.

It just goes to prove how frightened they are of her though... All those big hairy men and that's just the girls, having to surround her in that fashion to make themselves seem like big hard cases.
I wonder if they'd be so brave 1 -1 with a proper man?

Oh god is that what that is in her hair?

Just a reminder that New Zealand has the worst domestic violence rates of any OPEC country.