Feminist campaigner says she stopped supporting trans rights after being beaten and raped by transgender woman

A speaker at a women's rights event stunned her listeners into silence after revealing that her conversion to the cause came after being raped and beaten at the hands of a transgender woman.

The woman, who gave her name as 'Kay', recounted her experience for the first time in public at a Let Women Speak event in Oklahoma, which has found itself on the front line of the battle over trans rights.

'Up until that point I was like everybody else, live and let live', she said with her voice shaking.

'Ten is the number of years it's been since I was brutally beaten and raped by a trans identified male. One time it took to change my mind. To open my eyes as see how our rights and protections are being eroded away.'

The woman, who gave her name as 'Kay', drew gasps from her audience as she recounted her experience of being raped by a trans woman at a Let Women Speak event in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt banned transgender girls and women from competing on female sports teams in his state back in 2022, and more than a dozen states have followed suit 

Dozens of women lined up to speak at the event in Tulsa on Friday, with many slamming Joe Biden's overhaul of Title IX protections to promote children's LGBTQ rights.

The rewrite forbids discrimination based on gender identity and leaves schools vulnerable to lawsuits if they ban trans students from girls' locker rooms, rest rooms or dorms.

Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters has ordered the state's schools to 'completely ignore' the new rules, denouncing them as 'the most devastating attack on women's rights in our country's history'.

But Kay, who goes by the X handle @FemalesUniteUSA, slammed the state's record on women's rights.

'Forty-nine percent of our state's women have been in a domestic violence situation,' she said.

'That's what makes Oklahoma the number one state for male violence against women.'

The state passed a law in May 2022 requires public school pupils to use restrooms according to the sex on their birth certificate.

Non-binary teen Nex Benedict, 16, died a day after they were beaten by girls in an Oklahoma school bathroom in February last year 

Hundreds of people attended a candlelit vigil for Nex but a medical examiner eventually concluded that the teen had taken her own life with a drug overdose

The case sparked a huge backlash with state senator Tom Woods (left) referring to trans people as 'filth' as he was questioned about the death, and the state's schools' superintendent Ryan Walters (right) blaming 'radical leftists' for the backlash 

But it was sued by Oklahoma mother Theresa Gooden who claims it was still not being enforced months later when her 15-year-old daughter was 'severely beaten' by a transgender schoolmate in the girls' bathroom at Edmond Memorial High School.

Hundreds of trans activists occupied the state capitol last year in protest at a bill banning gender-confirming surgery for under 21s.

And many returned for vigils in support of non-binary teen Nex Benedict whose beating by girls in an Oklahoma school bathroom in February put them in hospital just a day before their death.

The state medical examiner eventually concluded that the 16-year-old intentionally killed themselves with a drug overdose, and investigators decided that no crime had been committed.

Dozens of states have joined the backlash against the Title IX reforms which are intended to 'guarantee that no person experiences sex discrimination in federally-funded education' when they come into force on August 1.

'The bottom line is this,' tweeted Florida governor Ron DeSantis last month.

'Injecting men into women's bathrooms and lockers rooms is not good for women. Injecting boys into girls' sports is not good for girls. This is bad policy, but it's also not constitutional.

'They're twisting the law to try to impose an ideological agenda on the rest of the country.'

The latest Title IX text describes 'misgendering' trans students as 'harassment', and Walters warned that it leaves a school at risk if it fails to use a pupil's preferred pronouns.

'It's time for every state leader to stand up and say enough of this preposterous charade that erases women and puts their safety in jeopardy,' he said.

The British-based Let Women Speak organization has organized events across Europe and the US to 'foster a community in which all women feel empowered to speak'.

But the events have been repeatedly picketed trans activists, and leader Kellie-Jay Keen has received repeated threats of violence for her activism.

Layla Le Fey, a trans woman from Brighton in southern England was handed a suspended prison sentence last month for threatening to 'physically kick the s*** out of you and pull your eyes out and break your spine'.

Dozens of women lined up to recount their experiences at the event in Tulsa on Friday

Campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen - also known as Posie Parker - has organized Let Women Speak events across Europe and the US 

The Tulsa event passed without incident and sympathizers praised Kay for her bravery in revealing the assault.

'I'm afraid we may have hundreds, thousands of women and girls who've been assaulted or raped by such men and who don't dare talk about it,' wrote one.

'Her courage, strength and words are so inspirational,' added local organizer Allie Snyder.

'She was a vital part of ensuring our event's success and we're gonna get after it here locally along with the other amazing Okie women here.'