The Auckland Women’s Centre accelerates its trans madness trajectory.
How trans ideology makes good organisations stray from their core business.
The takeover of the Auckland Women’s Centre with trans madness appears nearly complete. They’ve been on that trajectory for some time now, and clearly not veering away from it anytime soon. At a guess, I would say that the madness began some years ago, when a trans zealot got into their ranks, became unbearable, good women left, and fellow trans zealots, including men who say they’re women, were chosen as their replacements.
The Centre states that its open to “women and non-binary people”, and further emphasises that it’s for “all women, trans and cis”. Heaven forfend that the word ‘women’ in the name gives the false impression it’s female-only, and the not mixed-sex conglomeration it’s become.
Not content with trans ideology fracturing what was once a good-purpose organisation, the Centre has now decided it needs to address changes in the Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) guidance for schools. Much to their dismay, the ‘guidance’ around gender identity ideology for school kids has been removed.
The Centre wants it put back, and asks you to sign their petition to the Education Minister, Erica Stanford, titled Bring back Tiriti-based [Treaty-based], inclusive Relationships & Sexuality Education in schools. ‘Tiriti’ refers to the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, and I can assure you that relationships and sexuality education was not mentioned there at all. In a nutshell, not only does the insertion of ‘Tiriti-based’ in the title read like an exercise in gobbledygook, the whole petition does, too. Whilst “gobbedlygook” is a pretty good description of it, Resist Gender Education analyses it below with a little more finesse¹.
The proposed amended RSE is currently out for public consultation, and the Auckland Women’s Centre is asking for submissions to be sent to Erica Stanford, plus to seven other MPs whose names and email addresses they provide, and to also give feedback on the Ministry of Education’s online submission form. They’ve devoted an entire webpage to giving advice on how to do this, in addition to the webpage with the petition on it, because not teaching school kids about gender identity ideology is “regressive, colonial, heteronormative, cis-normative, monocultural, racist, white supremacist, transphobic, and homophobic”. Have they missed anything out?
Exactly how spending their time and resources making a fuss about the removal of gender identity ideology from the RSE guidance for schools comes into their remit of “Empowering women in Tāmaki Makaurau [Auckland] with support, education, counselling, community kōrero[talk], advocacy & safe space” isn’t explained. But then, I suppose trans zealots do like to make kids their business.
If individuals who work at the Centre want to kick up a fuss about the amended RSE on their own time, that’s their decision. However, the time and resources spent on this by the Centre as an entity is surely not how their donors and funders would expect those things to be spent. However, having said that, although government funding has been cut back, the possibility of other donators to the Centre also being trans zealots is likely quite high.
The kind of pragmatic, strong, smart, and grounded women who founded places like the Auckland Women’s Centre are seldom to be seen there anymore. Instead, they’re now populated by twits who have been brainwashed with gender ideology. Take the example of centre manager, Maia Hall, a she/they queer non-binary ‘feminist’, who back in June 2024 wrote an opinion piece in The Post, telling us that the way to beat the patriarchy is by letting men who say they’re women into our spaces and sports.² The smarts of the women who went before them have obviously bypassed the present incumbents.
Since the publication of that opinion piece, Sports NZ have removed the Guiding Principles for the Inclusion of Transgender People in Community Sport from their website (with gritted teeth, by some accounts) upon direction from the government; and the International Olympics Committee have banned biological males from female Olympic sports. Oh, how will we ever beat the patriarchy now?
Maybe the Auckland Women’s Centre does still provide some good “support, education, counselling, community kōrero[talk], advocacy & safe space”, but it won’t be just for women, anymore. Their website makes that very clear. Like many women’s organisations now, the Centre uses the word ‘woman’ loosely – so loosely, in fact, that they’ve become totally untethered from who they are and who they’re actually for. Soon, the whole reason for their existence will be lost in the mists of time. It will be down to a whole new cohort of intrepid explorers to re-discover what a woman is.
¹ Auckland Women’s Centre betrays children – Resist Gender Education’s column about the Auckland Women’s Centre’s petition.
² The Auckland Women’s Centre NZ knows how to beat the patriarchy – shame it’s completely bonkers.
Perfect time for females to write to Erica Stanford, seven other MP’s & Labour’s MP for Education supporting the removal of gender ideology in school education. Let the voice of reason be heard.
I hate this sort out stuff to be honest. So many groups set up originally for women or women’s health seem hell bent on remaking society into one where women are reduced to stereotypes, body parts and bodily functions. So regressive and they want to go after the kids - of course. ‘Let’s confuse the children about reality’. I hope people are beginning to see through this insanity (the more it is talked about the better) and realise there is nothing ‘kind’ about this ideology. It is coercive and restrictive and incompatible with honesty.