Posie Parker<\/a>, had been scheduled to speak at a rally in Auckland.<\/p>\nHowever, she was met with thousands of trans rights counter-protesters, and left the event before speaking, after being doused with tomato juice.<\/p>\n
Protester Eli Rubashkyn, who was born intersex and is gender-nonconforming, said she had dropped the litre of juice on the controversial speaker.<\/p>\n
Rubashkyn said she chose to dump tomato juice on Parker as a metaphor for the harm caused by her ideologies of the transgender community.<\/p>\n
“I am so proud I dropped the juice, and I would do it again, and again – if I have to go to prison for one year, I am more than happy.”<\/p>\n
Rubashkyn said Keen-Minshull’s words had caused so much hate and pain within the transgender community.<\/p>\n
“Trans people are under attack.<\/p>\n
“Hate speech become violence against minorities,” she said.<\/p>\n
Rubashkyn, originally from Colombia, said Aotearoa had become a “haven” for her, and she couldn’t allow Keen-Minshull to take that away.<\/p>\n
“Nobody is going to take the safety or me, my family and community away.<\/p>\n
“Ever single second of my existence has been a f…… fight, and I am exhausted.”<\/p>\n
After Rubashkyn threw the juice she was dragged away by security. She said she was then bitten and beaten by Keen-Minshull supporters.<\/p>\n
“It was not assault, it was literally tomato juice.<\/p>\n
“I did not beat anyone, I just dropped juice. She needed some Vitamin C on her skin.”<\/p>\n
Police had not contacted her, however she said she had received three death threats since she threw the juice.<\/p>\n
A police spokesperson said they were making enquiries into all reports of offending during the events.<\/p>\n
“In general, police are unable to respond to enquiries that seek to establish whether a named individual or organisation are, or have been, the subject of police investigation.<\/p>\n
Additionally, people who make a complaint also have a right to privacy, they said.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Keen-Minshull told Stuff she was “frightened” after she had juice doused on her prior to speaking at her Auckland event.<\/p>\n
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” Keen-Minshull said. “What a shameful day for New Zealand.”<\/p>\n
* This story was\u00a0originally published by Stuff<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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