‘Diversity & Inclusion’ – the new wonder scrub on the market.

Even the Catholic Church couldn't wield this kind of scrubbing miracle.

Better than anything that’s gone before it, the new cleaner called Diversity & Inclusion will scrub any muck, or hint of it, clean away. No elbow grease required, just invoking the words “diversity and inclusion” makes it disappear. This new cleaner works very well on ‘gender identity’.

So, what exactly does the Diversity & Inclusion cleaner do? It’s pure magic in its ability to scrub potentially dubious characters and industries clean of any hint of a taint. For example, just a once over lightly with Diversity & Inclusion, and hey presto, a drag queen or king is a fit person to entertain impressionable wee kids in a library. Gone is any suggestion that their primary job is in the adult entertainment industry, and they sell sexualised performances to an audience. It’s never been much of a secret what is also done behind the scenes of a sexual nature, either - to put it politely - but Diversity & Inclusion scrubs that away, too.

Not only does it do a great job of cleansing drag queens and kings of being nighttime adult entertainers when daytime comes around, it also has the transformative power of making drag a ‘gender identity’. I guess that goes something like this: a man or woman who dresses as the opposite sex for their job must be ‘transgender’. Some of them will definitely be transvestites, but that doesn’t automatically make drag a ‘gender identity’. Drag is a job, that’s all.

Even the Free Speech Union NZ, of which I am a member, have referred to drag queens/kings as being a ‘gender identity’. They determinedly fail to acknowledge that the objections to drag performers entertaining kids is because of the job they’ve chosen to do, not the content of what they say when they’re with these kids. I think the Free Speech Union does some sterling work, and I remain a member, despite their determination to not grasp the true nature of the objections to drag performers entertaining kids in libraries. Kathleen Stock succinctly says of those with an inexplicable blind spot around ‘gender identity’, that it’s “known to paralyse even high-functioning minds upon first contact”¹

If Diversity & Inclusion can scrub away the sexual performance and less-than-savoury behind the scenes reputation drag has had forever, why can’t it scrub away the reputation the Catholic Church got for itself, and allow priests to read to children in libraries? Why can’t priests now be a gender identity? Perhaps a ‘trans’ priest could get the magic Diversity & Inclusion scrub? I don’t think there are any Catholic ‘trans’ priests in New Zealand yet, or anywhere, but there are Anglican ‘trans’ priests overseas, including in Australia as far back as 2018. Interestingly “The Anglican Church in Australia, which displayed fierce internal divisions during the same-sex marriage debate, has never even debated the subject of transgender amongst parishioners, let alone priests.”²

Do we imagine for one moment that if the entirety of the drag entertainment industry was subject to the same scrutiny and investigation as the Catholic Church was, it wouldn’t expose as many, if not more, sexual inappropriateness and offences? But, give drag the Diversity & Inclusion scrub, throw in ‘gender identity’, and hey presto, no scrutiny is necessary. It’s a bit like going to a Catholic confession, except one’s transgressions don’t have to be confessed to get scrubbed if you claim a ‘gender identity’.

And men who say they’re women and go into women’s spaces get the magic Diversity & Inclusion scrub, too. Any ol’ perv or predator can say he’s a woman and go into female spaces, and his ‘gender identity’ immediately paralyses all rational thinking, wipes all biological reality, and gives men all the control of female spaces. Take the recent example posted by Reduxx, whereby a balding man in Canada went into a women’s changing room in a recreation centre wearing fake breasts and a penis sling, and when a woman complained about him she was told “it is the city of Edmonton’s policy that you can use whatever changing room you are most comfortable using”.

Disquieting encounters of men in women’s toilets and changing rooms have been heard of here in New Zealand, too. Notably, not one Council or organisation has created an avenue where women’s and girls’ voices can be heard honestly and unbiasedly about this. It’s contemptible, particularly when Dept of Corrections NZ stats show that men who say they’re women are imprisoned for sexual offences at twice the rate of other men.

Where we are at the moment, is if a library invites a drag performer to entertain kids, somehow the person who does that sexualised job at night, and whatever else, disappears during the day after a quick wipe over with Diversity & Inclusion. Anyone who protests this – e.g. Destiny Church on Saturday 22^nd Feb – is the baddie, especially if they scare some of the children. It’s not pleasant to be scared, I agree, but scarring children’s mind and befuddling their boundaries by exposing them to inappropriate adults, just so other adults can use them as props for their ‘progressive’ fancifulness, is questionable in the extreme. The reasons we try and avoid exposing kids to inappropriate adults, no matter what smiles those adults are wearing and child-friendly words they’re speaking, have never changed. But – to refer to Kathleen Stock again – ‘gender identity’ paralyses even high functioning minds. True words, indeed.

¹Gender cannot be a get-out-of-jail card for violent men

²https://apnews.com/article/religion-catholic-lgbtq-transgender-gender-theory-e36e68a6bfabb33729d0d3f53230bafe