Bill to define ‘woman’ and ‘man’ in law is drawn from NZ Parliament’s biscuit tin.

It's already causing great consternation amongst the terminally woke.

A NZ First member’s bill to define ‘woman’ and ‘man’ in law has been drawn from the Parliamentary biscuit tin.¹ This is going to be very interesting!

The biscuit tin is an actual 30-year-old biscuit tin, and is a tradition used by non-ministerial MPs to get legislation considered for law via a lucky dip process, which uses plastic bingo counters to represent their bills. When a member’s bill is drawn from the biscuit tin, that bill gets to bypass the normal backlog for a first reading debate and vote.

I expect that this bill to define women and men in law will be about as popular as a cup of cold sick with Labour and the Greens. Particularly with the Greens, who have chosen a man who says he’s a woman, Lauren Craig, as one of their candidates for the general election later this year. Craig is a transactivist through and through, and in all likelihood incredibly aggressive in the way most transactivists are about ensuring women don’t have anything that excludes men such as he. And that children have easy access to puberty blockers.

Labour are as woke as the Greens, but without any transvestite candidates – at the moment. And even though you’d think that their leader, Chris Hipkins, would welcome women and men being defined in law, after not knowing what a woman was when asked three years ago, my bet is that they’ll be as horrified as the Greens at the bill. For example, I don’t think there’s any way Labour MP Deborah Russell will be voting for the bill – lol!

Te Pāti Māori (the Māori Party) are in disarray right now, so it’s anyone’s guess whether they’ll even show up for the debate and vote. They might surprise us, though, due to legend – created, I’m told, by modern-day academics – saying that there were ‘gender diverse’ people in pre-colonial Māori culture. They might see a law that defines women and men as being a bit rude to that. Plus, Te Pāti Māori hates NZ First.

In the Right coalition bloc of National, ACT, and NZ First who are in government at the moment, National and ACT have their share of wokesters. There are still a number of sitting MPs among those two parties who voted for sex self-ID back in late 2021, deciding it was harmless despite the harms of it being laid out for them. NZ First wasn’t in Parliament at that time.

Those MPs on the Right who still have lingering wokery, or don’t want to become targets of aggressive transactivists, could default to the classic old ‘more important things’ to avoid discussion. The Left bloc will almost definitely do their usual thing of hyperventilating and swooning at the ‘real world harm’ this bill might cause those men and women who say they’re the opposite sex to that which they are.

It’s exciting that this member’s bill has been drawn from the biscuit tin, because like it or not, it will create discussion, and in an election year. It may be the last thing that politicians want to get into, but that genie won’t be going back into the bottle by pretending it doesn’t exist. This is election year gold for NZ First, because even if the bill is voted down, the politicians in National and ACT who do so will not look good in the eyes of many women, and NZ First just might take votes off them at the general election because of that.

We don’t know when this member’s bill will be debated and voted on yet, because although member’s bills drawn from the biscuit tin bypass the backlog of bills to be debated, they still go onto a waiting list. A lot of us will be watching closely for the date, and Parliament might find the public gallery full to the brim on that day.

This is a hot topic now.

¹ The Definitions of Woman and Man Bill