Fuck. Lal used the word 'terf' and made a gesture towards Susan Levy from Speak up for women.
And again, no one picked Lal up.
And Lal says "there was no violence against Posie Parker. I think there was unwanted use of force, yes, and I think that was not right. However, the most violence suffered, in terms of Posie Parker was her Marilyn Munroe dollar store weekend suit."
And the presenter laughed. Fuckwittery writ large!
The Dean of Law at AUT, Khylee Quince then came through and said:
"she has called for the elimination and extinguishment of trans people. She has called for the forceable sterilisation of trans people. Undoubtedly, that is speech that crosses the line'.
Wowsers. This is a dean of law??? Repeating falsehoods? Fuck.
And that dean of law was at the protest and did not seem to denounce the violence there. That dean just kept repeating, there are consequences, there are consequences.
The hypocrisy is that that Khylee Quince quoted someone about 'one's assertion of free speech should never make another feel less free'.
Well I guess when you are so far entrenched that you have lost perspective on this and have not actually done your research, that you might say that without cringing.
Lal and the presenter then just talked over Susanne Levy. And made out that the views that would have been discussed on the day were 'unpopular' and that if you have 50 people turn up against 5000, you have to accept that the views are unpopular. With no awareness at all that there were women who couldn't make it into the park and that is not including the women who felt they were unsafe even turning up.
Lal then makes that ridiculous claim.
"What the likes of Posie Parker do is they lie, for the purposes of inciting violence against transgender people. Posie Parker has told her followers that due to the transgender agenda, cisgender women are being kidnapped, blended and put into meat for human consumption. Now that is a ridiculous claim, but when you have a fanbase of nothing but fools, they believe you and they act on their hatred against transgender people."
"Posie Parker has called for cisgender men to go into women's toilets with guns to protect cisgender women from transgender women. Posie Parker's funders have called for the complete elimination of transgender people. Posie Parker absolutely incites violence against trans people."
"It has become clear to me that the state will not step in and protect transgender people from hate speech that incites violence. However, it has also become apparent to me that if the state does not act, New Zealander's will. And the likes of Susanne learned that very clearly last week when thousands of people across Aotearoa come together and say 'We will not stand for transphobia in our country'. That just makes me very happy"
And the presenter just agreed with it all.
There really is going to be a long road ahead, and I think that New Zealand women are so very very brave.