Issues bought juicy.
Embattled creator JK Rowling slammed trans rights activists in New Zealand Saturday after a number of doused anti-trans campaigner Kellie-Jay Eager Minshull in tomato juice, according to local outlet RNZ.
Kellie-Jay Eager Minshull — often known as Posie Parker — was in Australia as part of her controversial “Let ladies communicate” tour when a protester rushed forward and doused the activist with crimson liquid.
Parker, 48, was then rushed by safety forces to a ready police automotive and fled the scene.
The “Harry Potter” creator condemned the assaults as “repellent” in a sequence of tweets.
“There are a number of movies of Kellie-Jay being assaulted. Ladies have grow to be used to lies, threats of violence and outright denial of actuality, however if you happen to think about anybody feels ‘defeated’, assume once more,” tweeted the creator. “Your males’s rights activists confirmed the world precisely who they’re.”
Parker later tweeted that she was sorry for not with the ability to communicate.
“The bravery of the New Zealand men and women who got here to talk the reality shall not be forgotten,” tweeted Parker. “I used to be honored to be amongst you. I’m so sorry.”
Rowling, 57, later retweeted an image from the London-based group “The Lesbian Undertaking” that pro-trans activists had been “chanting” and “shouting” as a result of “lesbians are assembly with out males current.”
“After the repellent scenes from New Zealand, through which a mob assaulted ladies talking up for his or her rights, #TheLesbianProject is being intimidated and threatened within the UK, proper now,” slammed the creator.
Parker responded to the protest in a video that was posted on Youtube after she was spirited away from the commotion.
“I believed they had been going to crush us to demise,” stated the controversial determine in the video. “I genuinely have by no means felt so unsafe in my life.”
Parker’s cease in Wellington was canceled after Parker’s group Converse Up For Ladies cited “credible threats to life” as the rationale.