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Advocacy group Trans Justice Project has launched a petition that calls Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (also known as Posie Parker) to be a refused an Australian visa. If successful, this would block her from entering Australia next month.

Keen-Minshull to speak at Australia鈥檚 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Brisbane on the 5-6 of October, alongside Sall Grover (who recently ) and former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss.

The event coincides with the third and final week of the defamation case between Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto and MP Moira Deeming. Deeming after helping to organise and attending Keen-Minshull鈥檚 ‘Let Women Speak’ rally in Melbourne.

In 24 hours the Trans Justice Project have received more than 1700 signatures to calling on the government to deny entry to Keen-Minshull on character grounds.

In posted today (24 September), they state that they have sent the petition and a letter to Immigration Minister Tony Bourke.

Who Is Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull?

Described by CPAC as a 鈥渨oman鈥檚 rights activist鈥�, and 鈥榓 global phenomenon who asks the question 鈥榳hat is a woman鈥欌��, Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull is a Youtuber and anti-trans activist known for her extreme statements against the trans community.听

Going by the pseudonym Posie Parker, she achieved notoriety in Australia when she organised a series of rallies across the country under the banner Let Women Speak.听

Her rally in Melbourne was attended by balaclava-wearing members of a neo-Nazi group, who performed the Nazi salute and held up a banner stating 鈥渄estroy paedo freaks鈥� 鈥� although anti-trans speakers denounced their attendance, and said they are not affilitated with the neo-Nazi group.

In Tasmania, Keen-Minshull called Tasmanian MP Cassy O鈥機onnor a groomer and an abuser for having a trans child. In Canberra, senator Lydia Thorpe was pushed to the ground when she attempted to confront Keen-Minshull, shouting 鈥淵ou鈥檙e not welcome here鈥�.听

The and New Zealand鈥檚 found that anti-trans harassment and hate speech for weeks after her rallies.

Keen-Minshull‘s tour came to an abrupt end after her rallies in were outnumbered by counter-protesters, who heckled and threw tomato juice at her.

Previous attempts to ban Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull from Australia

In 2023, Greens’ MP Stephen Bates on character grounds, but his request was denied.

A Change.org petition by Melbourne-based LGBTQIA+ rights activist Chris Johnson, which called for听骋颈濒别蝉 to revoke her visa, before receiving legal threats and being shut down.

After her 2023 Melbourne rally, Keen-Minshull Liberal leader John Pesutto for defamation. The matter was settled out of court, with Pesutto paying part of Keen-Minshull鈥檚 legal fees and .

She stated she was delighted by Pesutto鈥檚 apology.

“I hope women throughout Australia should feel a little safer speaking about their fears in public,” she told ABC news.

What is CPAC?

, CPAC Australia started in 2019 and boasts that it is the largest conservative gathering in Australia.

Sponsored by the Institute of Public Affairs and Advance, CPAC describes itself as 鈥渁 values based nonprofit organisation that espouses the best of Howard, Reagan and Thatcher while exploring new ideas and themes for the coming generations.鈥�

Previous speakers include Tony Abbott, Nigel Farage, Pauline Hanson, , and Fox 今日吃瓜 and Sky 今日吃瓜 presenters.

The Trans Justice Project’s petition

Trans Justice Project launched their petition to ban Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull from Australia this week.

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