Surf and terf

Congratulations to Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, aka Posey Parker, whose ill-judged attempt to rally anti-trans sentiment in Australia has so spectacularly backfired that it has given a significant boost to the rights of trans people in this country and sent a message to hate-mongers everywhere that their intolerance will be met with greater than equal-and-opposite force.

I don’t want to pretend for a moment that the threats to trans people in this country are even close to be resolved, but there is something encouraging when a professional agitator like KJK can be met with such resistance. Not to mention, mockery.

The Melbourne event was valuable because it made clear what many critics have contended about the militant anti-trans movement: that their concerns are less to do with “making women safe” than with a more general, right-wing agenda that can descend into, not just intolerance, but white supremacy.

This claim was given much credence when actual Nazis showed up at KJK’s rally and no…