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May 3, 2023Liked by Katrina Biggs

Only women have the capacity to, sorry, bleed, breed and feed, even though this capacity lasts only a third of our lives. Most if not all women bleed, most go on to breed, most of these go on to feed. If you do not nor have never had this capacity, you are NOT a woman, and no amount of strident shrieking or repetition will alter this.

A cat is not a dog, in spite of continual "yelly" insistence that it is. All you will end up with is an unhappy cat. I predict many law-suits in the future over transitioning and detransitioning.

"No scrotum-toters in women's quarters (safe male-free spaces) or quotas" (statistics).

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May 3, 2023Liked by Katrina Biggs

Sadly, the phrase 'ignorant academic' is far from being an oxymoron, but rather verbal redundancy reminiscent of Mark Twain's: “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”

Academic credentials which used to mean something have been devalued by the packing of universities with students who have left school without basic literacy skills, and the flight or cancellation of faculty with any scholastic integrity.

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May 3, 2023·edited May 3, 2023Liked by Katrina Biggs

I am deeply concerned by the lack of inclusiveness in Te Whatu Ora's message. The word "person" has the dictionary definition of "a human being regarded as an individual" and so is speciesist, exclusionary of those entities who (hope that is the right pronoun) self identify either as members of non-human species or as composite organisms.

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May 3, 2023Liked by Katrina Biggs

It gets worse... The MoH National Breastfeeding Strategy talks about "families", "whanau" and "people", with nary a mother, let alone a woman in sight. The NZ Midwifery Council scope of practice document if read by aliens, would not reveal that this is supposed to be about midwives helping women birth and supporting them into motherhood. Because there aren't any women in that either. The Ministry for Women should be renamed the "Ministry for People" because the Minister has stated that she works for everyone who identifies as a woman. I wonder if this will get extra funding once self ID kicks in and the number of women living in NZ suddenly increases?

And if you "have to figure it out", how can it be claimed to be Plain English?

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May 7, 2023Liked by Katrina Biggs

Do you suppose that the language to describe the human experience of women and girls has been disappeared in order to most benefit trans-identifying men or trans-identifying women?

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