Kellie-Jay Nyishie Keen-Minshull ( Keen), also known as Posie Parker, is a British anti-transgender and gender-critical activist. She is the leader of the political party Party of Women. She describes herself as a woman's rights activist, but says that she is "not a feminist". She is known for popularising the anti-trans slogan "adult human female".
Keen-Minshull is the founder of the group Standing for Women and a former special advisor to the Women's Liberation Front (WoLF). She has been described as a key figure opposing the United Kingdom's Gender Recognition Act 2004. She stood for election as MP for the constituency of Bristol Central in the 2024 United Kingdom general election, coming in last place with only 0.5% of the vote.
She has used billboards, posters, stickers and social media to promote anti-transgender rights messages, and has held events in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand that have been protested against by supporters of transgender rights.
Biography and views Keen-Minshull's activism includes opposition to legal protections and policies that allow transgender people to be legally recognised as their gender. She has opposed the UK Gender Recognition Act, the use of public toilets by transgender people according to their gender, and the participation of transgender people in sports that align with their gender. She has also opposed the use of puberty blockers and hormone replacement therapy for transgender children, and drag performances, especially in locations that may be viewed by children. According to PinkNews, Keen-Minshull has referred to the trans community as a "pernicious cult" and "previously compared trans people to sex offenders and serial killers".
Keen-Minshull is also a special advisor to the Women's Liberation Front. In March 2023, the New Zealand Herald described Keen-Minshull as "a key figure in the movement against the UK's Gender Recognition Act".
Hope not Hate has described her as "a leading voice in the anti-trans movement" and linked her to far-right extremism.
Billboards, posters and stickers Keen-Minshull is credited for popularising the term "adult human female" to define a woman, which she began to promote in 2018 on billboards. The term is associated with gender-critical feminism.
In September 2018, under the pseudonym "Posie Parker", Keen-Minshull paid the advertising company Primesight to place a billboard poster in Liverpool with the text "woman, wʊmən, noun, adult human female", telling the BBC it was in response to support expressed by Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson for the trans community. Keen-Minshull said she was concerned the word "woman" was "being appropriated to mean anything" and that the poster was intended to "start a conversation" about women's rights. Primesight removed the poster following a complaint, stating it had been "unaware of the motive" and "misled" and was "fully committed to equality for all". In response to the poster, LGBT charity Stonewall noted in their 2018 Trans Report on violence and hate crimes against trans people that: "These are not just statistics, they represent the lives of trans people, which are only being made worse by increasingly frequent attacks in the media, online and in public spaces."
Standing for Women had a digital version of the poster placed on a billboard in Leeds on 19 October 2018, and Kong Outdoor, which owned the billboard, said the sign initially appeared to comply with Advertising Standards Authority regulations, but then removed it pending further investigation after becoming aware of "the controversy around the message."
In May 2019, a sticker stating "Women only. This is a single sex service under the Equality Act 2010" that was produced by Standing for Women and designed to appear official was removed from a Dundee Railway Station bathroom door after station staff were alerted. Keen-Minshull denied that the group had placed the sticker in the station and said "We are fed up that the protected category of sex in the Equality Act is routinely ignored and are standing up and saying we matter too."
On 27 July 2020, Keen-Minshull paid for a poster reading "I ❤ JK Rowling" to be displayed at Waverley Station in Edinburgh. Rowling had recently elicited controversy for her views on trans people. The poster was taken down by the Scotland wing of Network Rail on 30 July, who stated that the poster was removed for violating its advertising guidelines due to its political nature.
In July 2021, Speak Up for Women in New Zealand used the phrase "adult human female" in billboards, which were removed following complaints about transphobia.
HelloPrint, the company that had produced stickers, t-shirts, and other merchandise for Keen-Minshull over five years announced in February 2023 that it would no longer fill orders for Keen-Minshull, and "If we had been fully aware of her beliefs earlier, we would earlier have refused to print for her."
Social media In 2018, after a complaint from Susie Green, then CEO of transgender charity Mermaids, Keen-Minshull was interviewed by West Yorkshire Police for suspicion of malicious communication in relation to tweets she had made. In 2019, Keen-Minshull said she was interviewed by Wiltshire Police for suspicion of harassment due to two YouTube videos she had produced that directed criticism at Green for supporting her daughter's transition. The 2018 case was closed with no further action.
In May 2018, Woman's Place UK, an organisation that opposes gender self-identification for trans people, announced that it had disinvited Keen-Minshull from a meeting, based on objections to "her stated views on race and religion." In 2022, Woman's Place UK published screenshots they said were from Keen's Twitter account and since deleted, to "clarify our own political ground", stating they had invited Keen-Minshull to discuss the 2018 police investigation related to her tweets, and since then, "many of her subsequent connections, statements and actions have only strengthened our decision not to work with her."
In January 2019, Keen-Minshull praised far-right activist Tommy Robinson in a podcast for Feminist Current.
On 30 January 2019, Sarah McBride, a transgender rights activist and press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), participated in a panel discussion between members of the Parents for Transgender Equality National Council and members of the United States Congress, during a visit to Capitol Hill to advocate for the Equality Act. Afterwards, Keen-Minshull and Julia Long entered the room in the Cannon House Office Building where McBride was working, and recorded themselves on Facebook Live shouting at and misgendering her.
In response to the 30 January incident, an HRC spokesperson stated: "It is disturbing but not at all surprising that anti-transgender extremists brought to the United States at the behest of The Heritage Foundation would stoop to harassing a transgender woman and parents of transgender youth." A spokesperson for The Heritage Foundation denied a connection to the presence of Keen-Minshull and Long in the United States and said in reference to a Heritage Foundation panel discussion attended by Keen-Minshull that the organisation had "no contact with them before or after our Jan. 28 event, and have zero connection to anything they did afterward."
In October 2019, Keen-Minshull appeared in a video interview with Jean-François Gariépy, a far-right YouTuber who advocates for a "white ethno-state". She has also given an interview to Soldiers of Christ Online, a far-right network. Keen-Minshull denied prior knowledge of the interviewers' far-right affiliations. In 2019, Jean Hatchet, a gender-critical activist, expressed concerns about what she described as "right-wing links" developed by Keen-Minshull in the US, as well as her connections to The Heritage Foundation, writing on her blog: "I don't care what these people think about trans ideology. That cannot be separated from the things they do and advocate that specifically harm women."
In 2021, Keen-Minshull produced a YouTube video about Mridul Wadhwa, the director of the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC), and referred to her as a "male CEO". Wadhwa had faced threats of violence that led to increased security at the ERCC, as well as an activist and social media campaign that opposed her hiring on the grounds that she was a trans woman.
Rallies, speaker events, and protests United Kingdom and United States In March 2022, Keen led a group protesting the inclusion of Lia Thomas at the NCAA Division I Women's Swimming Championship in Atlanta, also appearing on Tucker Carlson Tonight. On 19 June, Keen-Minshull and approximately 60 supporters held a rally in Bristol, which was met by approximately 100 counter-protestors organised by Bristol Against Hate. On 18 September, a rally in Brighton organised by Keen-Minshull as part of a speakers tour was met by hundreds of counter-protesters. Sussex police reported three arrests.
On 16 October, Keen-Minshull began a series of public speaking events organised by Standing for Women in the United States that were intended to tour eleven cities, starting in Los Angeles. In Los Angeles and the second stop in San Francisco, few supporters attended, and there were no counter-protesters nor police at the events. Keen-Minshull said threats from Antifa led her to cancel the speakers for an event in Portland, Oregon. In a video published on Twitter, an attendee at the Portland event was hit in the face with a pie. On 5 February 2023, Keen-Minshull organised a "Let Women Speak" protest in Glasgow's George Square in response to the passage of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill and the Isla Bryson case; hundreds of protesters and counterprotestors attended, and the counterprotestors were organised by the Cabaret Against The Hate Speech.
In May 2026, Keen-Minshull was a speaker at the "Unite the Kingdom" rally organised by Tommy Robinson. At the rally she called for the removal of Islam from classrooms and parliament.
Australia
In January 2023, Keen-Minshull announced plans to tour Australia and New Zealand in March. Stephen Bates, the Australian Greens' spokesperson for LGBTQIA+ communities, wrote to Immigration Minister Andrew Giles asking him to revoke Keen-Minshull's visa and posted the letter online with her name redacted. Keen-Minshull later said she was the subject of the letter. A petition also launched on Change.org to oppose the visa. By 18 February, the petition was removed to comply with Australia's defamation law. According to LGBTQIA+ rights activist Chris Johnson, who started the petition, there had been more than 11,167 signatures.
Keen-Minshull's Melbourne event on 18 March 2023 was attended by a group of at least 30 neo-Nazis, organised by the National Socialist Network and its leader Thomas Sewell, who were seen performing the Nazi salute on the steps of Parliament House and displaying a banner that read "Destroy Paedo Freaks". Overall attendance at the event was estimated to be between 300 and 400 supporters at the anti-transgender protest led by Keen-Minshull, and about twice as many counterprotesters. Following the event Keen-Minshull said "They're absolutely not associated with me whatsoever. I absolutely abhor anything to do with Nazis."
On 23 March 2023, Keen-Minshull held a rally outside of the Australia Parliament House in Canberra, attended by about 30 supporters, including One Nation Party senators Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts and United Australia Party senator Ralph Babet. The rally was also attended by a group of about 100 counterprotesters, including senator Lidia Thorpe, who on video footage of the rally appeared to be pulled to the ground by police after she approached Keen-Minshull while shouting "you're not welcome here."