If women don’t include men who say they’re women in our sports and spaces, we’re bowing down to the patriarchy – apparently. At least, that’s what Maia Hall tells us, the “she/they queer, non-binary feminist” Women’s Services Coordinator at the Auckland Women’s Centre. However, if we
This opinion piece is as full of holes as the mind of its author… sex denialism, worthless statistics, misrepresentation of government policy, rewriting history, false claims that NZers can’t think for themselves, demands for extra human rights for the chosen few… I hope there will be lots of letters to the editor pointing out the absurdities and falsehoods.
I missed the name of the spokeswoman, but listening to a piece on RNZ yesterday afternoon, just after 4pm about cervical cancer and screening, she came out with, 'women and people with cervixes'.
How can they talk like that and expect credibility?
It’s all about pandering to the ‘yoof’, Ken. I doubt if any thought has been given to how messages are not well absorbed once they start becoming convoluted.
I have worked with and been friends with gay people for more than half a century and they are as wonderful as any other person.can be They are adults and may of them have been mightily hurt with all sorts of abuse but as far as I know they are all adults and would never hurt a child.
I will fight this ABUSE of human rights, gay people deserve as much as children to be safe, not lumped in with criminal behaviour.
This 'mirror talk 'is another assault on humanity to wreck damage and destroy people.
A similar thing was done in China by Lin Biao. Our lives have been hi jacked. All the best to you all.
Just about every single paragraph in that piece could easily be rebutted. Maia Hall is young and seems incredibly naive - just parroting cliches and stereotypes. According to her LinkedIn profile she's only a few years out of a Bachelor of Communications, Journalism. Shame of The Post editor/s for running this as an opinion piece. I'd challenge The Post to run another opinion piece to counter it. Katrina Biggs et al, are you up for it?
Tbh, I'm not up for it. Others have tried many times to have a counter-opinion piece published to this kind of bollox, and it's like trying to get into Fort Knox. Not only that, I have no time for writing the kind of mealy-mouthed opinion they'd need an exorcism done on before the editor/s even read it. However, if anyone else wants to write a counter-opinion, which doesn't get accepted by The Post, I can consider publishing it here on my blog.
I don't blame you. It's extremely tedious. I've been trying to combat this issue in NZ schools after InsideOut made a visit to my son's intermediate school back in 2021. At times I feel quite defeated by it all. But I've decided to keep going - albeit intermittently, and be that 'squeaky wheel'. I've written numerous emails; to the school, my local MP, Minister of Education etc. Stuff and NZ Herald seem completely captured by the ideology. I note though, that UK's (left-leaning) The Guardian newspaper have FINALLY starting covering this issue from a wider perspective and have run good articles about the Cass Review, so there's hope. NZ seems to be late to this party so I think we might be the last to leave.
I almost wish I hadn't cancelled my membership of AWC so I could have read and responded to this travesty firsthand: "The Government is restricting freedom for all women by wanting to police what we look like when we use public toilets..." What we 'look like'? Not the fact that some of 'us' are men. Yeah, right. What a load of gaslighting bull-shite this is, so much so it doesn't even ring true as being believed by its author, though she (or he) is definitely enjoying talking to actual feminists like we're halfwits. What an incredibly clever move from the Patriarchy, to make men a type of woman, indeed the 'most vulnerable' type. If you can't beat 'em, become 'em, ay? The real tragedy is that SO many, formerly feminist women, including my lawyer daughter, have been sold on this sexism on steroids crap. Or perhaps it is all, or in large part, about punishing their feminist mothers. Who'd be a mother, eh? Most feminists of old were not, indeed.
The 'person' who wrote this, and your daughter, perhaps, are part of the trans-indoctrinated generation, so getting through to them that men are not woman is a difficult task. And convoluted narratives full of weasel words do not make them so.
Unfortunately, indoctrinated at many universities. And then it becomes the culture with everyone spouting the same nonsense. But how do we combat it? Does Gender Studies at university include a gender critical module? Somehow, I doubt it. Anyone know?
I don't know how we combat it, apart from what we're doing. The fight will evolve as it ages, of course, and new tactics may come to light. What I do know is that it is a luxury belief, so as times get tougher and universities have to tighten their belts, the Humanities may get trimmed back to the extent that not so much of this BS is taught there anymore.
TBH I don’t think women can combat it. We’re up against a group of financially powerful elite men determined to expand their dominance in a global infrastructure designed to suit elite & controlling men. Women don’t weild enough power, authority or respect because female contribution in life has been devalued to the extent that it isn’t even recognized. The female lawyer is a classic example, her success is in being a lawyer not in creating life itself and the law she’s implementing protects male property, it doesn’t protect the social structures required for people to thrive.
However, extreme male dominance doesn’t suit or benefit the majority of males and there will be a kick back but in the long term IMO women will have to recognize their value and build ‘natural’ alternatives e.g. hospitals, schools etc. that work with nature to combat the synthetic choices that will be offered in the future.
If women will never be’the’ powerful force we must be powerful in what we are forced to do. We don’t need to be part of the dirty rotten empire, we need to start over from scratch and do what women do best, build life standards and structures based on actual life needs.
There is a lot of new medical information rising that points to the benefits of maternal nurture at cellular and sub cellular level. It’s intrinsically important for health. Elites don’t want health they want patients and profit for life BUT people want health and healthy children so maybe alongside the current fight we need to start collating that kind of information and collaborating with like minded people. I think Katrina’s posts are kind of doing that, they do that for me so THANK YOU 👏🙏❤️
I feel like we've lost the fight... We don't have one female politician standing up for women's causes... I believe they are too scared too and I don't blame them. There's a whole generation of seriously unhinged people who pounce at any woman who speaks the truth....gaslit into silence
This opinion piece is as full of holes as the mind of its author… sex denialism, worthless statistics, misrepresentation of government policy, rewriting history, false claims that NZers can’t think for themselves, demands for extra human rights for the chosen few… I hope there will be lots of letters to the editor pointing out the absurdities and falsehoods.
Well, she’s wallowing in the trans cult and enjoying every minute of her lying and virtue signaling, isn’t she?
Oh, and of course she can’t say “ women” it has to be “ Cis women!
Or for men, it’s trans” women”!
What a joke she is!
Well I would like the option to not share a change room with a penis and I support Peter's bill.
Me, too.
Does anybody remember Lorena Bobbit?
FFS. What the hell has happened to rot the brains of so many people? Talk about twisting the facts to fit your conclusion, that’s a perfect example.
Roll over ladies, let the men walk all over you, it’ll destroy the patriarchy. 🤪
The trans cult has one thing going for it: they’re excellent liars. When they open their mouths, the lies just come flying out.. like bad breath!
That writer is bonkers. It's all parroted catechism. Full of sound and fury and signifying nothing.
Yep , Shakespeare knew about that.
What a load of twisted, illogical trash. Sad that the Auckland Women's Centre has fallen to gender ideology.
Utterly nauseating.
I have given feedback to these grifters
Lol - and I bet it was good!!
haha
hand maidens on stipends power tripping their way into fame and hallows ; enjoying their little power
Great article Katrina ,it reads like Comedy in a way but of course the librarian is dead serious.
Yes, she’s completely captured by weasel words.
Can Maia Hall and editors at ‘The Post’ explain this please -
https://open.substack.com/pub/genevievegluck/p/the-disturbing-case-of-princess-aurora?r=2h9h3d&utm_medium=ios
Yeah, that’s really showing the patriarchy, all right!
The explanation is: pornography for kids .
I missed the name of the spokeswoman, but listening to a piece on RNZ yesterday afternoon, just after 4pm about cervical cancer and screening, she came out with, 'women and people with cervixes'.
How can they talk like that and expect credibility?
It’s all about pandering to the ‘yoof’, Ken. I doubt if any thought has been given to how messages are not well absorbed once they start becoming convoluted.
I have worked with and been friends with gay people for more than half a century and they are as wonderful as any other person.can be They are adults and may of them have been mightily hurt with all sorts of abuse but as far as I know they are all adults and would never hurt a child.
I will fight this ABUSE of human rights, gay people deserve as much as children to be safe, not lumped in with criminal behaviour.
This 'mirror talk 'is another assault on humanity to wreck damage and destroy people.
A similar thing was done in China by Lin Biao. Our lives have been hi jacked. All the best to you all.
Read about it here. https://clifhigh.substack.com/p/lin-biaos-curse-of-trans?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=681568&post_id=111294254&isFreemail=true&triedRedirect=true
Just about every single paragraph in that piece could easily be rebutted. Maia Hall is young and seems incredibly naive - just parroting cliches and stereotypes. According to her LinkedIn profile she's only a few years out of a Bachelor of Communications, Journalism. Shame of The Post editor/s for running this as an opinion piece. I'd challenge The Post to run another opinion piece to counter it. Katrina Biggs et al, are you up for it?
Tbh, I'm not up for it. Others have tried many times to have a counter-opinion piece published to this kind of bollox, and it's like trying to get into Fort Knox. Not only that, I have no time for writing the kind of mealy-mouthed opinion they'd need an exorcism done on before the editor/s even read it. However, if anyone else wants to write a counter-opinion, which doesn't get accepted by The Post, I can consider publishing it here on my blog.
I don't blame you. It's extremely tedious. I've been trying to combat this issue in NZ schools after InsideOut made a visit to my son's intermediate school back in 2021. At times I feel quite defeated by it all. But I've decided to keep going - albeit intermittently, and be that 'squeaky wheel'. I've written numerous emails; to the school, my local MP, Minister of Education etc. Stuff and NZ Herald seem completely captured by the ideology. I note though, that UK's (left-leaning) The Guardian newspaper have FINALLY starting covering this issue from a wider perspective and have run good articles about the Cass Review, so there's hope. NZ seems to be late to this party so I think we might be the last to leave.
I almost wish I hadn't cancelled my membership of AWC so I could have read and responded to this travesty firsthand: "The Government is restricting freedom for all women by wanting to police what we look like when we use public toilets..." What we 'look like'? Not the fact that some of 'us' are men. Yeah, right. What a load of gaslighting bull-shite this is, so much so it doesn't even ring true as being believed by its author, though she (or he) is definitely enjoying talking to actual feminists like we're halfwits. What an incredibly clever move from the Patriarchy, to make men a type of woman, indeed the 'most vulnerable' type. If you can't beat 'em, become 'em, ay? The real tragedy is that SO many, formerly feminist women, including my lawyer daughter, have been sold on this sexism on steroids crap. Or perhaps it is all, or in large part, about punishing their feminist mothers. Who'd be a mother, eh? Most feminists of old were not, indeed.
The 'person' who wrote this, and your daughter, perhaps, are part of the trans-indoctrinated generation, so getting through to them that men are not woman is a difficult task. And convoluted narratives full of weasel words do not make them so.
Unfortunately, indoctrinated at many universities. And then it becomes the culture with everyone spouting the same nonsense. But how do we combat it? Does Gender Studies at university include a gender critical module? Somehow, I doubt it. Anyone know?
I don't know how we combat it, apart from what we're doing. The fight will evolve as it ages, of course, and new tactics may come to light. What I do know is that it is a luxury belief, so as times get tougher and universities have to tighten their belts, the Humanities may get trimmed back to the extent that not so much of this BS is taught there anymore.
It absolutely does not. I've seen pictures of exams from Auckland Uni saying gender critical views will be immediately failed
That was a Lexie Matheson exam paper, wasn't it?
TBH I don’t think women can combat it. We’re up against a group of financially powerful elite men determined to expand their dominance in a global infrastructure designed to suit elite & controlling men. Women don’t weild enough power, authority or respect because female contribution in life has been devalued to the extent that it isn’t even recognized. The female lawyer is a classic example, her success is in being a lawyer not in creating life itself and the law she’s implementing protects male property, it doesn’t protect the social structures required for people to thrive.
However, extreme male dominance doesn’t suit or benefit the majority of males and there will be a kick back but in the long term IMO women will have to recognize their value and build ‘natural’ alternatives e.g. hospitals, schools etc. that work with nature to combat the synthetic choices that will be offered in the future.
If women will never be’the’ powerful force we must be powerful in what we are forced to do. We don’t need to be part of the dirty rotten empire, we need to start over from scratch and do what women do best, build life standards and structures based on actual life needs.
There is a lot of new medical information rising that points to the benefits of maternal nurture at cellular and sub cellular level. It’s intrinsically important for health. Elites don’t want health they want patients and profit for life BUT people want health and healthy children so maybe alongside the current fight we need to start collating that kind of information and collaborating with like minded people. I think Katrina’s posts are kind of doing that, they do that for me so THANK YOU 👏🙏❤️
Sadly I think you are 100% right!!
about that ageist sexism this podcast and Dennis Kavanaugh substack are so honest funny and will buoy up all the Women
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6wLPDu3tLwA&pp=ygUUa2FyZW5zIHF1ZWVucyBzcGVlY2g%3D
I feel like we've lost the fight... We don't have one female politician standing up for women's causes... I believe they are too scared too and I don't blame them. There's a whole generation of seriously unhinged people who pounce at any woman who speaks the truth....gaslit into silence
Perhaps we have indeed lost the fight.