Thanks for this and for your work. Obviously my main link to New Zealand is unfortunately via being deplatformed from the NZ college of midwives conference and a petition calling me a hateful person with which NZCoM decided to capitulate. This formed part of one of the darkest and most unpleasant couple of years of my life. So I'm very glad to see amazing NZ women like you pushing back against this ideology that doesn't care about women.
Thanks, Milli. I confess I'm not directly involved in midwifery, but am certainly incensed at what is being done to women and children in the name of gender ideology. I decided to start this blog mainly to report on, and keep a record of, what is happening here in NZ around that, although I occasionally include items and news from elsewhere. I will be following developments with this fiasco from the Midwifery Council, and intend to have Deb Hayes back for another chat to catch up on those.
I know a couple of women from the College of Midwives, and they were very upset at what happened, as were many of us who became aware of it. I will say now that there are numerous women and men here in NZ who are deeply sorry that you were disrespected so egregiously. I am meeting up with one of those aforementioned women tomorrow to hear the whole long story about it.
We have been fighting for nearly a decade now, Milli.... we're just getting traction/being listened to, and it's been a struggle. Trannys and their handlers are fucken rank madmen and women. I don't gaf how that makes people feel - we're in the fight of our lives for our very existence. #Glovesoff #NoQuarter to quislings erasing us in law, language and life. We won't go quietly.
The other point to make about this dog's breakfast is that when they did ask midwives prior to launching this onto an unsuspecting public, over 90% were opposed to the chosen wording and only about 3% thought it was a Great Leap Forward. Makes you wonder why they even bothered to ask for opinions as they clearly didn't listen to anyone, which is I suppose what happens when you join a cult that brooks no deviation from the party line.
It's bad enough the number of women-founded organisations that have abandoned women (in the name of "inclusivity" I guess us biology believing fossils can be safely excluded), but even babies are erased from midwifery care here. And what's with the adoption of a local form of Singlish (which is defined as a variety of English spoken in Singapore, incorporating elements of Chinese and Malay)? I'm all for incorporating Te Reo into daily life, but surely this is not the best way to do this. When I have shared this (and other government policies) with friends overseas, they often cannot understand any of it because there's not enough English to make it comprehensible, but of course for Maori speakers there's not enough Maori either.
It is astonishing to me that a Scope of Practice document can be so vague, obtuse and confusing that you can't even discern what the job it's describing is! What do midwives actually do when they're at work? Good luck figuring this out by reading this diktat from the gender woo Stasi.
Yes, Deb mentioned the massive disparity between those who approved of the changed wording and those who didn't. It's astonishing, isn't it, how utterly the Midwifery Council have forgotten who they're there for, and instead want to push their own agenda. That's called dictatorship, I believe. The brief submission process was merely a box-ticking exercise, and it's now obvious they had no intention of taking any notice whatsoever of the feedback.
I used to be a great advocate of the Maori language. But the more I learn the less I'm keen to do that, in fact I figure I've flipped to the other side. Basically you've got a language now that has about 18k words which makes it one of the, if not the, least wordy language(s) on the planet. English by comparison probably has a million. Most languages well over 100k (Greek is probably the most wordy). Secondly it's so chokka block full of loan words these days, often from English but also from Portuguese (boat, dog many others) that it's basically Pidgin English with a smattering of Maori and Portuguese (and where might that have come from you ask....). If we were all forced to use it instead of English (which is where the woke are pushing us) then we'd be forced to use a language that is extremely limited and therefore our ability to express ourselves would also be limited. I think Maori of several generations ago realised this and decided to adopt English to "get ahead" whether that worked or not.
It's not meant to be bandied about like a political hot potato/football... and now everyone's sick of the forcing of it into places it has no need.
Let those who want to, learn it. The empty virtue signalling is sickening, never mind the traitors 'gifting' things to people in the name of inclusion. Our tipuna knew who the women were.
As a 62 year old mother of adults, this makes me feel desperately sad for young women, couples and families. It is so trite to say "I believe children are our future" but inside that obvious truism are the mothers, babies, fathers and families that make any future possibly. It we don't ALL care for and safeguard especially mothers and babies, what future is possible? In the words on maps past used to describe the unknown, "there be monsters."
Thanks, Fay. I'm in ChCh, too, and I've been beating my head against the brick wall of the Council here for a couple of years now. They're certainly captured by trans ideology, that's for sure!
I have a question and figure some on here might know. What is the requirement to nominate someone for co leader of Green Party and how long do they, and you as a nominator, need to have been members for.
To have Swarbrick as the only candidate is not something that I want to see.
The process is for candidates to self-nominate (anyone who is a current member of the Party can do so) and they need to include the details of five other members who are willing to nominate them on their application form
When I saw her on TV the other day, saying that she will bring in "even more progressive policies", I thought 'good luck with that' because her sorts of policies were just voted out. And my question to her and all the Greens is "why have you abandoned the environment?" Because you cannot hold two opposing sides and a trans identity has an enormous carbon footprint with its requirement to become a lifelong medical patient in an economy where this is totally dependent on manufactured and imported goods. I now have to buy my plastic kitchen bin bags because I have no supermarket plastic bags to use, but a trans person will be using several tons of single use plastics over their lifetime. Most of which is not even recyclable. There is nothing "green" in this harmful ideology.
I did an analysis of Swarbrick's first electoral "win". She, or her supporters, stuffed the 5 largest booths. She didn't win. I havn't looked at last years result.
A challenge to her now is unlikely to succeed but at least you've shown your willingness to oppose absolutely everything that she stands for (I really cannot stand her, she's worse than Ardern).
Thanks for this and for your work. Obviously my main link to New Zealand is unfortunately via being deplatformed from the NZ college of midwives conference and a petition calling me a hateful person with which NZCoM decided to capitulate. This formed part of one of the darkest and most unpleasant couple of years of my life. So I'm very glad to see amazing NZ women like you pushing back against this ideology that doesn't care about women.
Thanks, Milli. I confess I'm not directly involved in midwifery, but am certainly incensed at what is being done to women and children in the name of gender ideology. I decided to start this blog mainly to report on, and keep a record of, what is happening here in NZ around that, although I occasionally include items and news from elsewhere. I will be following developments with this fiasco from the Midwifery Council, and intend to have Deb Hayes back for another chat to catch up on those.
I know a couple of women from the College of Midwives, and they were very upset at what happened, as were many of us who became aware of it. I will say now that there are numerous women and men here in NZ who are deeply sorry that you were disrespected so egregiously. I am meeting up with one of those aforementioned women tomorrow to hear the whole long story about it.
Great to have found your substack. Thank you for this important work which I will support in any way I can. And thank you for caring about what happened to me. I wrote about some of it here. https://millihill.substack.com/p/the-story-of-how-i-was-deplatformed
Thank you - I will pass your offer on :-)
We have been fighting for nearly a decade now, Milli.... we're just getting traction/being listened to, and it's been a struggle. Trannys and their handlers are fucken rank madmen and women. I don't gaf how that makes people feel - we're in the fight of our lives for our very existence. #Glovesoff #NoQuarter to quislings erasing us in law, language and life. We won't go quietly.
The other point to make about this dog's breakfast is that when they did ask midwives prior to launching this onto an unsuspecting public, over 90% were opposed to the chosen wording and only about 3% thought it was a Great Leap Forward. Makes you wonder why they even bothered to ask for opinions as they clearly didn't listen to anyone, which is I suppose what happens when you join a cult that brooks no deviation from the party line.
It's bad enough the number of women-founded organisations that have abandoned women (in the name of "inclusivity" I guess us biology believing fossils can be safely excluded), but even babies are erased from midwifery care here. And what's with the adoption of a local form of Singlish (which is defined as a variety of English spoken in Singapore, incorporating elements of Chinese and Malay)? I'm all for incorporating Te Reo into daily life, but surely this is not the best way to do this. When I have shared this (and other government policies) with friends overseas, they often cannot understand any of it because there's not enough English to make it comprehensible, but of course for Maori speakers there's not enough Maori either.
It is astonishing to me that a Scope of Practice document can be so vague, obtuse and confusing that you can't even discern what the job it's describing is! What do midwives actually do when they're at work? Good luck figuring this out by reading this diktat from the gender woo Stasi.
Yes, Deb mentioned the massive disparity between those who approved of the changed wording and those who didn't. It's astonishing, isn't it, how utterly the Midwifery Council have forgotten who they're there for, and instead want to push their own agenda. That's called dictatorship, I believe. The brief submission process was merely a box-ticking exercise, and it's now obvious they had no intention of taking any notice whatsoever of the feedback.
I used to be a great advocate of the Maori language. But the more I learn the less I'm keen to do that, in fact I figure I've flipped to the other side. Basically you've got a language now that has about 18k words which makes it one of the, if not the, least wordy language(s) on the planet. English by comparison probably has a million. Most languages well over 100k (Greek is probably the most wordy). Secondly it's so chokka block full of loan words these days, often from English but also from Portuguese (boat, dog many others) that it's basically Pidgin English with a smattering of Maori and Portuguese (and where might that have come from you ask....). If we were all forced to use it instead of English (which is where the woke are pushing us) then we'd be forced to use a language that is extremely limited and therefore our ability to express ourselves would also be limited. I think Maori of several generations ago realised this and decided to adopt English to "get ahead" whether that worked or not.
It's not meant to be bandied about like a political hot potato/football... and now everyone's sick of the forcing of it into places it has no need.
Let those who want to, learn it. The empty virtue signalling is sickening, never mind the traitors 'gifting' things to people in the name of inclusion. Our tipuna knew who the women were.
As did/do mine.
We need to overcome the divisions that have been forced on us.
And I would like on your post Rex, but you're still blocking me.....
Ach, it was just a week while I climbed off my high horse LoL... please hold caller - I'm not the best at techie things.
As a 62 year old mother of adults, this makes me feel desperately sad for young women, couples and families. It is so trite to say "I believe children are our future" but inside that obvious truism are the mothers, babies, fathers and families that make any future possibly. It we don't ALL care for and safeguard especially mothers and babies, what future is possible? In the words on maps past used to describe the unknown, "there be monsters."
Thanks Katrina for this. We need to keep well informed.
I have forwarded it on to my brother and sister-in-law in NZ.
They live in the Manawatu area where my brother is a Councillor
Their son, his wife and their four young children reside in Christchurch.
Thanks, Fay. I'm in ChCh, too, and I've been beating my head against the brick wall of the Council here for a couple of years now. They're certainly captured by trans ideology, that's for sure!
Wonder whether these women realise the entities they work for are captured and unethical - it’s broken, and we do not comply.
Just listening to the interview, whanau is a very loose word. I'm reminded of the gaslighting of young people that goes on "we are your family now".
I have a question and figure some on here might know. What is the requirement to nominate someone for co leader of Green Party and how long do they, and you as a nominator, need to have been members for.
To have Swarbrick as the only candidate is not something that I want to see.
I'll be interested to know, too.
A reply from the Green Party, surprise, surprise.
The link unfortunately goes to a member only area and I'm not sure how long the process is to be accepted as a member.
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Kia ora Richard
thanks for getting in touch. You can find more information here https://members.greens.org.nz/post/party-co-leader-election
The process is for candidates to self-nominate (anyone who is a current member of the Party can do so) and they need to include the details of five other members who are willing to nominate them on their application form
Ngā mihi nui,
Miriam Ross (she/her)
When I saw her on TV the other day, saying that she will bring in "even more progressive policies", I thought 'good luck with that' because her sorts of policies were just voted out. And my question to her and all the Greens is "why have you abandoned the environment?" Because you cannot hold two opposing sides and a trans identity has an enormous carbon footprint with its requirement to become a lifelong medical patient in an economy where this is totally dependent on manufactured and imported goods. I now have to buy my plastic kitchen bin bags because I have no supermarket plastic bags to use, but a trans person will be using several tons of single use plastics over their lifetime. Most of which is not even recyclable. There is nothing "green" in this harmful ideology.
I guess the green part for a eugenicist is that such a Trans person (in reality most "Transwomen" still have their junk) won't be able to reproduce.
I did an analysis of Swarbrick's first electoral "win". She, or her supporters, stuffed the 5 largest booths. She didn't win. I havn't looked at last years result.
There is this Court case looming with more negative publicity for the Greens.
It will take years for the public to gain any confidence in them. It is not politically
wise for Swarbrick to jump in for the leadership at this time as she will be running
up-hill and it is doubtful that she could rally much public support before the next election.
It takes some time for people to forget.
If she gets in now, at their weakest point, it will be ‘here today, gone tomorrow’
However, it will give time for someone else in the party to quietly assess their direction
and eventually challenge.
So, what I am asserting is; this could be the quickest way to get her out!
A challenge to her now is unlikely to succeed but at least you've shown your willingness to oppose absolutely everything that she stands for (I really cannot stand her, she's worse than Ardern).
This I assume is, and I'm a bit vague on it, the bagman who likes underage boys?
Just remembered who that is. I have my minor parties mixed up.