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Sarah's avatar

Do I have pity for that child? You bet , and as it grows to adult hood its on our watch .

Be mindful and may love be with us all.

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Graham Adams's avatar

Thanks, Katrina. One point I didn't have room to make (because the column was already almost 1700 words long) is that NZ on Air has a continuing obsession with promoting trans issues. I could be wrong, but I'm doubtful TVNZ would readily put its hand up now to air a trans doco like Trans and Pregnant if someone proposed it, but NZ on Air is still happy to find other, more niche/receptive audiences than a public broadcaster such as TVNZ provides.

In April, it granted up to $395,115 for “The Gender Agenda” — a docu-series of five 10-minute

episodes “exploring the complicated issue of gender” — which began streaming on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram last week.

I haven't done a close search of NZ on Air funding decisions to find any other examples, but in the past three years it has spent millions of taxpayer dollars on three programmes alone that promote trans ideology. In the same 2021 round that funded “Trans and Pregnant”, the agency also awarded $1.725 million for “Rūrangi 2” focused on a “transgender activist” who “returns to a remote, politically divided dairy community in the hope of reconnecting with his father”.

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