Open letter to the Christchurch City Council NZ – available for anyone to sign who is a current, or potential, resident or visitor to Christchurch.
My engagement with the Christchurch City Council (CCC) NZ, will be familiar to many by now. For those who aren’t aware, I have been skirmishing with them since October 2021 when they established a women’s session at the new Te Pou Toetoe:Linwood Pool complex – and promptly included men who say they’re women in that.
Now, they have drawn up a Draft Equity and Inclusion Policy which doesn’t have the word ‘sex’ in it, but has the word ‘gender’. Just like their obduracy in refusing to reconsider the policy which allows men into the women’s session at Linwood Pool, they have also refused to include the word ‘sex’ in the Draft Equity and Inclusion Policy.
There is no logical reason whatsoever to exclude ‘sex’ from the policy, and the reasons they’ve given for doing so are weak – e.g. the word ‘gender’ is consistent with other CCC policies, and with the Human Rights Commission advice. A note about the Human Rights Commission advice – if that advice has been taken from the Human Rights Commission FAQ page on their website, it is heavily loaded towards ‘gender identity’ rights, and has almost nothing about sex-based rights.
Conversely, the reasons to include ‘sex’ in the CCC’s Draft Equity and Inclusion Policy are strong, and are laid out in the intro to the open letter in the link below, and in the letter itself.
If you’re able to, and haven’t signed it already, please sign this open letter, which is kindly hosted on the Women’s Rights Party NZ website. The letter is open for anyone to sign who is a current, or potential, resident or visitor to Christchurch NZ.
Tell the Christchurch City Council to keep female-only services and facilities
Thank you so much :-)
Thanks Katrina for this information.
It is strange times in which are living when the word ‘sex’ is excluded.
Sex refers to the biological differences between males and females.
Gender refers to psychosocial self-perceptions.
How many genders are there scientifically?
Sex - the chromosomal, physical and biological characteristics that distinguish males
from females. There are two biological sexes - male and female.
Let’s stick with science.
Your letter is written from a very generous position - assuming that what these people are doing is being done in good faith. That is, the exclusion of the category "sex" is accidental or mistaken. It is actually absolutely deliberate. The movement fully intends replacing the categorification of people according to biological sex by the synthetic property "gender", the consequences of this you are decrying are desirable to them. Its not a bug, its a feature, to use the IT expression.
The reasons for their apparent inattention to detail etc are just tactics being used to muddle this ideology through into public policy. They are playing on people's good faith these administrators/politicians are just making honest errors to get away with Machiavellian manipulation.