Hello and we're delighted to the spike podcast I'm Fraser Myers and joining me on the sofa this week we have

Spikes editor Tom Slater and we're delighted to have joining us down the line

spike columnist and founder of the Equiano Project Inaya Following I, I'm man.

So coming up in today's show, the violent turn in trans activism, the madness of Humsaseusif, and the tyranny of Net Zero.

So I think it's fair to say there's been a few incidents in the past week or so that have

confirmed what we kind of knew about trans activism. Firstly that it's irrational,

secondly that it's misogynistic and thirdly that it has a propensity or a willingness to sort of flirt with violence.

First off, let's talk a little bit about the Kelly J. Keene incident in Auckland, New Zealand.

So Kelly J. Keene, also known as Posey Parker, was hounded by a trans activist mob, was afraid of her life, she was almost crushed, she had liquid porn over her.

I mean, Tom, how the hell do you explain these kinds of scenes in the 21st century

where essentially you have a woman organizing event called

Let Women Speak, just wanted women to talk about their experiences and it's

being attacked. I think it's relatively easy to explain as far as I think it's

misogyny which is driving all of this and I think the thing that makes it

difficult for people to understand that is because this is a misogyny that is

posing as progressive effectively but when you see scenes of men stopping women from speaking in public about their own rights and their own experiences,

men physically are costing women for daring to err those rights, hurling sexualised insults at them and so on.

I don't think you can call this anything other than misogyny. I think what trans activism has done and the extreme

fringes of it is that it seems to have rehabilitated a kind of

Woke misogyny, a kind of acceptable misogyny, which is not subtle at all in the way that it expresses itself.

I'm sure we're going to some of the details

about what happened in New Zealand as well as Australia, but also this, as you suggest,

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