The protester charged with pouring tomato juice over anti-trans activist Posie Parker is seeking to have their charges dismissed.
Eli Rubashkyn poured juice on British activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull – also known as Posie Parker – at a speaking event in Auckland on March 25.
Keen-Minshull abandoned the event following the incident and left the country that evening. She has since said she won’t return to Aotearoa.
On Wednesday, their lawyer James Olsen asked Judge Claire Ryan to dismiss the charge relating to Parker. Judge Ryan reserved her decision until October 26.
Mann disagreed and said the prosecution could still proceed without the complainant’s statement or presence at any trial and there was genuine public interest in this case.
Rubashkyn is a qualified pharmacist and researcher and an advocate for intersex and gender issues at the United Nations.
Rubashkyn was raised as a boy before being given access to hormones as an adult, having gender-affirming surgery in 2022.
Last month, a 21-year-old man admitted hitting an elderly woman at Parker’s event. He was a counter-protester at the event.
Source: Protester who threw tomato juice over Posie Parker applies to have charges dismissed | Stuff.co.nz
“Rubashkyn was raised as a boy before being given access to hormones as an adult, having gender-affirming surgery in 2022.”
to unpack this you would be far more correct saying “Rubashkyn was born a boy and is now a man pretending to be a woman who has had some surgery to imitate the form of a vulva and vagina and some female hormones to trick his body into developing breasts and redistributing body fat in ways that are vaguely reminiscent of real women’s bodies.”
To say he was ‘raised as a boy’ is quite misleading.
Also he is a pharmacist and researcher. Well, that’s great. I’m a sociologist and social worker and also a researcher (I read history). But I have no greater insights into transgenderism than he has probably… Well, probably better actually as I still remember basic secondary school biology and the awkward xx xy stuff…