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 wearing a truth-telling t-shirt tells her story.

New Zealand’s proposed hate speech laws have been thrown in the bin. The current Minister for Justice, Paul Goldsmith, announced on 21^st Mar24 that they were a gone-burger.

Most NZers breathed a collective sigh of relief at the abandonment of the monster hate speech laws would inevitably become, despite the good intentions behind them. Not all saw it like that though, and some likened the abandonment to enabling another attack against Muslims, such as we saw in Christchurch on 15^th Mar19. It’s an outrageous and ugly postulation made by more than one person on X (formerly Twitter), such as this NZ journalist in the screenshot below, whose name I’ve decided to obscure. Arguably, he doesn’t deserve anonymity, but it’s what I’ve decided to do here. Those who made posts in a similar vein were quickly bombarded with comments taking them to task for their obnoxious accusations, which I daresay was also the reason this journalist disabled further commenting not long after making the post.

Judith Collins, who is the current Attorney General, let him know that NZ already has laws in place that address seditious offences. Whether or not this journalist has since deleted his comment, I don’t know, as his account is now locked down.

The ditching of the hate speech laws leaves NZ terfs, and anyone who believes in biological reality, able to say that men who say they’re women are men. Not that any hate speech laws would stop Rex Landy telling that truth to the select committee who were hearing oral submissions about our prisons. In the below video, Rex is quite clear about her position that all men are men, and also gives Ginny Anderson, who is on the right in the video, a serve for disrespect. Ginny Anderson is a Labour list MP who is a firm believer that men who say they’re women are women, and is prepared to sacrifice the rights of women for those men. She doesn’t have particularly good form in her dealings with women, or anyone, who believe otherwise. This was evident in her contempt towards those who spoke against sex self-ID in 2021, whilst she was on the select committee who were hearing oral submissions about that. Additionally, she was Minister of Police at the time of the mob violence against women at the Let Women Speak rally in Auckland in March 2023, when the police did nothing to help the women being mobbed. Rex delivers Ginny a ‘coup de grace’ at the end of this partial recording of her recent oral submission on prisons, as well as a scolding to her prior to that for chatting with a colleague instead of listening. Naturally, the mainstream media went into their usual hyperbolic meltdown over Rex’s submission, calling her few unequivocal words an “anti-trans rant”.

Later, in her Reality Bites blog, Rex admitted she hadn’t intended for her submission to end on the note it did, and issued an apology -

“I would like to extend my profound regret at my loss of control at the end of my submission: I meant to say 'You're an absolute disgrace!' to Ginny Andersen and I uttered a profanity instead of 'absolute'.

I stand by my harsh criticism of the former Justice Minister and Minister of Police: her abysmal record does provoke visceral responses to her uselessness as said minister in both portfolios.

However, I undertake to control myself and never utter profanity (whether deserved or not) to any Select Committee in the future”.

Yes, the profanity may have been out of order in the situation – but Rex wasn’t wrong.

And, finally, remember Phillippa, the older woman who got ejected and banned from the New World supermarket in Ōtaki on 30^th December 2023 for wearing a t-shirt which said “men are not women, even if you squint”? She tells her story about that in full on Reality Check Radio (RCR), and it’s soon clear that if anyone has cause to utter profanities, it’s Phillippa. Considering what she underwent she is remarkably restrained, because that, in fact, is just her nature. If you’re in or near Ōtaki on Saturday 30^th March, listen out for the details of a free speech protest outside the supermarket on that day at “high noon”.

• Here is Rex’s full oral submission to the select committee, from which the above clip was taken, if you’re able to access Mana News Online on Facebook.