Hi Stephanie. Calling out women who want to remain sex-based rights as 'right-wing' is fundamentally dishonest. There are many dozens of women who are in (and more who have left the Green and Labour Parties) as well as women from Marxist traditions who I ...
You have failed to answer the question though. Are you o.k. with males accessing public changing rooms, naked with their penis out, where girls and teens are changing?
This decision was not communicated to stakeholders, consulted on, the subject of policy work, risk assessment or consultation. it also misses out on clarifying whether thousands of natal women now identitying as male have ceded their opportunities to be ...
Other information in this OIA makes clear this decision was made without public notification, consultation, policy work, documentation or risk assessment on a date that cannot be identified. A little odd eh?
It's here in the press release. Multiple sex changes. Non-binary genders managed through regulation. https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/progress-towards-simpler-process-changing-sex-birth-certificates The Regulatory Impact Assessment is here. https://www....
Thanks for letting me know. As someone speaking in a personal capacity about this legislation and this issue I know only too well how exposed it can feel to be identifiable. But pseusdonymous authors surely have a responsibility to act in good faith. ...
... has been rushed even as Jan Tinetti has said it must...
"Labour had already committed to the bill" ??? By failing to include it in the 2020 manifesto you mean but by allowing Tamati Coffey to reveal the news. A shameful obfuscation in my book.
If you had any insight into how the women reading this are assessing you I'm sure you would be horrified. But honestly you clearly have no idea and little insight. It's good really seeing frank misogyny laid bare. Dissolves any illusion we can't unsee it ...
Great to see this issue getting an airing on here. I think the question is really the government's to answer. And it goes like this. We are being presented with self-id as a trifle. Nothing to worry about. A convenience for males who identify as women (and...
Apologies I made a mistake. Gender Minorities Aotearoa who made the claims of hate- https://genderminorities.com/2020/07/28/nz-sex-and-gender-statistical-standard-submissions/ but they are NOT on the advisory panel. https://www.stats.govt.nz/assets/Uploads...
Uh Oh, bit of an edit mix up there - but I think the point is clear. I think Stats NZ have got it badly wrong.
I've made a very full submission on this topic. It is linked from the bottom of this article. I find it more worrying that Weka has indicated for a number of reasons. Public servants have recently been told to introduce themselves with pronouns in meetings...
Good points all. The fact is that horse about pay has bolted. The recent excellent figures for women's pay in the public sector did for the first time in 2019 include people by self identified gender. What this means, since it appears there was no checking...
Well the word sex does of course have an emotional charge that gender does not. But the issue here is of an initiative to replace biological sex (physical bodies) with gender (a feeling that you are male or female) in international law, national law as ...
Thanks. I'm not confident at all and believe there is mounting evidence that there is covert work to replace sex with gender from the UN to government and event in councils and NGOs like Amnesty NZ and the NZ National Council of Women. Here is an article ...
And then I re-read the blog piece and saw this "resources (more equitable allocation among people OF ALL GEN)DERS in government budgets or development projects. " The term is code for the kind of feminism where biological men who think they are women have ...
Really supportive of this idea and the amazing impact it could have, Women certainly need more power than they have. ANother perspective would be in designing policies and services, Caroline Criado Perez's recent book addresses how in everything from car ...
Good questions. This might be helpful. You don't need to be a radical feminist to worry that self-id is a step too far. Or to realise that transideology has silenced debate. Speak up for Women is the NZ campaign for women to have a say on self-id that has ...
For clarification I absolutely do do not think transwomen should face criticism in general and apologise for any confusion. Nor that they are more responsible for violence than any other group of born males - in fact possibly less. What I intended to ...
"TERFs insist that sex is binary and gender isn’t real." Well hello Matthew that is what science says. Its also what about 95% - 99% of the population believe. So we are in a world where not to be a TERF is to be in a minority. But you are directing your ...
This is a good summary and having also read the article its pretty clear that it is transactivism and transideology that is really in the frame in Rachel's article - not trans individuals. FWIW I have tried to capture some of the issues as I see them - an ...
At last year's ECO conference Kennedy Graham spoke most persuasively about the work of the inter-party committee on climate change which he had instigated I think. There were difficulties and different perspectives but from what he said a lot of goodwill ...
There are even better options than NZ's formal democracy that we could aspire to. Bronwyn Hayward's 2012 book Children and the Environment: Nurturing a democratic imagination outlined three kinds of democracy - authoritarian, citizen as consumer and deep ...
On the contrary more motorways and more private vehicles and trucks are THE cause of gridlock and wasted time and missed deadlines. The research from more than 40 years of experience is pretty clear on this. A NZ Herald report from yesterday interviewed a ...
Action Station are hoping to raise money for an opinion survey. Details, and the place to contribute are here. https://donate.actionstation.org.nz/TPPA11polling
Thanks. In my mind it'll still be 007 types with flippers,masks and aqua lungs with secret, special underground welding equipment testing every 3 months for corrosion. :-0 Whenuapai makes much more sense!
Thanks for the reminder. The new law came into effect in March this year. It seems to allow "things that would otherwise be illegal" and the creation of warrants for classes of people, things and places. Is it this that was being awaited?
Thanks. Implementing the recommendations of report by Sir Michael Cullen and Patsy Reddy into law would go some to doing this as many of its them were ignored and the resulting law leaving it profoundly undemocratic. One of the complaints was that Russel ...
So can we assume that with stage 1 of the Spear Gun project in place the interception - I understand a probe on an undersea cable is tapped and available allowing information retrieval in the way that Edward Snowden described in video segment on the Herald...
Take a look at point 9 in this which is the final Ministerial Agreement following on from the weeken'ds negotiations. It makes it clear that in country processes can should and must happen prior to https://www.mfat.govt.nz/assets/FTAs-in-negotiations/TPP/...
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