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Will this policy be the one which loosens the stranglehold of 'gender-identity affirmation' in NZ schools?
An organisation in New Zealand, called Ethos Alliance, has issued a new gender-identity policy guide to all schools titled Students and Social…
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Men and ovarian cancer – the bewildering billboard in New Zealand.
Yesterday, I caused a minor X storm. On the grand scale of X storms – a phrase which, it must be said, simply doesn’t carry the same sensation as what…
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NZ's trans lobby is fighting a rearguard action - by Graham Adams.
Graham Adams has published a good article around the Cass Report’s impact in New Zealand. Trans lobby groups have (almost desperately) tried to deny…
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April 2024

A roundup of some things from New Zealand, across the ditch - i.e. Australia - and the UK.
New Zealand A few of us here have been beavering away in the last week writing complaints about the revised NZ Midwifery Council’s Scope of Practice to…
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The 'Let Kids be Kids' roadshow of the South Island NZ gets pushback from the usual suspects.
I chose not to be a parent, for no other reason than I simply didn’t seem ‘wired’ for children. However, I’m not completely disinterested in parents and…
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The debt-laden Christchurch City Council NZ seems to have a spare $50K to splash out on a rainbow pedestrian crossing.
The cost of a zebra pedestrian crossing can fluctuate wildly in New Zealand. An internet search has thrown up costs anywhere between $35K to hundreds of…
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The week of the NZ Midwifery petition, the Aussie court case Tickle v Giggle, and the UK Cass Review.
The second week in April 2024 was a big week in the fight against gender ideology. First, here in New Zealand, a petition was presented to Parliament…
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Deb's petition against the NZ Midwifery Council’s dog of a revised Scope of Practice gets presented to Parliament.
It was a windy day in Wellington on Tuesday 9th April 2024. So far, so normal. It was also the day a group of terfs¹ got together to support midwife Deb…
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Ex-Corrections NZ prison officer, Josie, shares her experience of dealing with trans-identifying-males (men) in women’s prisons.
Josie worked for the New Zealand Dept of Corrections from 2008 to 2021. The first ten years of that time were spent working in the Auckland women’s…
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March 2024

The 'linguistic abomination' of the NZ Midwifery Council's revised Scope of Practice.
If you’ve been like me, and knew there was something ‘off’ about woke-speak which goes even deeper than the fact it’s confusing, misleading, and creates…
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The man who was instrumental in whipping up violence against women in NZ, in March 2023, is given a job with a Labour MP.
Today, March 25th, is the one-year anniversary of the worst mob violence ever seen against women in New Zealand. Today, I also heard that a Labour…
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New Zealand’s hate speech laws get kicked to the kerb; Rex Landy makes the news; and the woman who got trespassed from a supermarket for…
New Zealand’s proposed hate speech laws have been thrown in the bin. The current Minister for Justice, Paul Goldsmith, announced on 21st Mar24 that they…
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