No wonder they don’t want terfs to gather.

I had the pleasure of hosting four women for a chat on my YouTube channel. And what women they are! The combined knowledge and wisdom between them is dangerous - dangerous to the popular and much-parroted narrative of transactivists, that is. No wonder they don’t want terfs to gather.

The subjects for the chat were Suffrage Day in NZ, the Midwifery Council’s revised Scope of Practice, and Surrogacy in NZ. The women are:

Jill Ovens – national secretary and co-leader of the NZ Women’s Rights Party, and recently retired after a 36-year involvement in the union movement, which included a leading position in the midwives’ union.

Di Landy – co-founder of Mana Wāhine Kōrero (Sovereign Women Speak), and outspoken activist against gender ideology, especially that which erodes Māori culture.

Deb Hayes – midwife and initiator of the petition against the NZ Midwifery Council’s revised Scope of Practice, where they omitted the words ‘mother’ and ‘baby’.

Robin Jones – retired midwife, expert on breastfeeding, and researcher on the harms which mega-dosing on testosterone does to those women desperate to identify as men.

Women’s Suffrage Day in New Zealand is 19^th September. On that day in 1893, women in NZ won the right to vote, when Lord Glasgow signed the bill into law. The women, both European and Māori, fought hard for it, and it was only won by a narrow margin of 20 votes to 18. NZ became the first self-governing country in the world where women could vote in political elections. Women’s Suffrage Day is becoming less and less acknowledged here, though, whilst Pride days are littered throughout the year, and neo-rainbow flags and whatnot are flown and displayed everywhere. We want to own Women’s Suffrage Day once again, and bring back more celebrations of it.

NZ’s Midwifery Council began revising their Scope of Practice four years ago, and decided that gobbedlygook language and omitting the words ‘mother’ and ‘baby’ from it were good ideas. Much to their surprise, it seems, they got a lot of pushback. However, they appeared determined not to take any heed of that, so eventually Deb Hayes, a midwife, initiated a parliamentary petition against it. The petition collected nearly 7,500 signatures, and made its way all the way to the Petitions Committee, and on September 12^th Deb sat in front of them along with Mana Wāhine Kōrero (represented by co-founder Di Landy, and Sarah Henderson), and made their case against the Midwifery Council’s revised Scope of Practice. The Midwifery Council come across as being oblivious to the harms they promulgate with their nonsense language in the Scope, which they have also tried to make as sexless as possible. At no stage have they been heard to express any knowledge of what mega-dosing on testosterone does to women who identify as men. Retired midwife Robin Jones has some grim information to impart about that.

Surrogacy is a subject that is gaining more awareness worldwide, as the loopholes in laws around it get exploited. Jill and Robin tell us about the situation around the surrogacy laws in NZ, which, although not perfect, seem to be better than many other places.

Di finishes off with a plug for her upcoming talk with Jennifer Bilek, and other guests.

Suffrage Day in NZ, the Midwifery Council’s revised Scope of Practice, and Surrogacy in NZ.