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And today my guest is Kelly J. Keen, known also as Posey Parker, a British women's rights advocate who many people have tried to shut up, sometimes violently.

Not so long ago, one might have suspected that it would be radicalized social conservatives seeking to muzzle a defender of women's rights.

But in this strange new political age we inhabit, that is not the case.

Rather, it is Orthodox progressives, intersectional feminists, and trans rights activists, known as TRAs, who now mob keen at her events, on the basis that her desire to protect female spaces in sports, prisons, and locker rooms

is objected to by trans-identified biological men who seek unfettered access to such spaces.

As we will hear, Keene has no time for simplistic slow to such as

as Trans Women are Women. She also has no time for simplistic slogans such as Trans Women are Women.

She also has no time for academic feminists,

many of whom she laments have put down stakes with what is effectively a men's rights movement

decked out in rainbow colors. More so than many of the other so-called gender critical activists

we've had on this podcast, Keene has proven herself willing

to engage in brash and even confrontational tactics, and has rubbed elbows with plenty of conservative

figures who turn progressive faces pale with horror.

As a result, she's been the subject of a libel campaign, which has extended to her Wikipedia page,

and lies about her non-existent collaboration with such notorious racists as David Duke

are now repeated casually by prominent politicians.

Keene became front-page news in recent weeks when mobs greeted her in Australia and

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