Spot on Katrina. Separating the letters after LGB is a big challenge but one the media need to be called out on. Who any consenting adults choose to have sex with is their business and very few have an issue with it. The other letters are a big con job and have no place in being included in the same conversations.
Stonewall originally was the idea for freedom of expression for homosexuals: begun by a black lesbian and a white gay man i.e. Jeff Sergeant who ( literally present near KJK) standing up recently to support KJK and women's rights was battered to the ground by a hulking trans activist ( with Jeff's own banner). Jeff Sergeant consistently speaks out for sanity, LGB rights and respect for women and safeguarding for children.
No one I know says that trans had any hand in obtaining LGB rights - which has now morphed into LGBT rights. I thought it was only white male colonists wrote history as they wanted it to be, and not as it was.
Interestingly, Shaneel Lal is looking much more masculine these days and accordingly to his Instagram profiles, now described himself as gay with he/they prounouns. In 2023 it was trans/non-binary and she/they pronouns. Could it be that he's just growing up??
He’s not stupid. He knows that he will be taken more seriously, and get more career advancement as a masculine-presenting man, than a feminine-presenting man. It was okay to play around with his style and pronouns while he was at uni, but not if he wants to be taken seriously in the political workplace.
I note that they are still trotting out the total myth that there were 'transwomen' involved in the Stonewall Riots!! Fred Sargeant can answer that one!
Tim Barnett Labour MP introduced the Bill to decriminalise prostitution, not Beyer. I was an MP then. Many MP s supported it. Dame Catherine Healy of The Prostitutes Collective deserves more credit than anyone - her lobbying was tireless, rational, and effective.
Ah - my mistake. I inferred that incorrectly from the episode. Thanks for the correction. There's been quite a bit of debate since then as to whether decriminalisation actually worked out better for prostitutes, or not. For example, as mentioned in my blogpiece, Yvonne van Dongen has dug into it and written about its negative impacts, and Wahine Toa Rising do not support decriminalisation, either. I've heard others support this perspective, too. I suspect that decriminalisation might have been one of those things that sounded great as an idea, but the reality has been somewhat different, or at least very mixed.
Spot on Katrina. Separating the letters after LGB is a big challenge but one the media need to be called out on. Who any consenting adults choose to have sex with is their business and very few have an issue with it. The other letters are a big con job and have no place in being included in the same conversations.
Keep challenging the mainstream media.
Brilliant! " A soberly dressed woman-hating prick"! Love it. I am so disappointed with the NZ Labour party, they will never get my vote again.
Fred Sergeant is the heroic man involved in gay rights since 60s and now backing women's human rights.
Stonewall originally was the idea for freedom of expression for homosexuals: begun by a black lesbian and a white gay man i.e. Jeff Sergeant who ( literally present near KJK) standing up recently to support KJK and women's rights was battered to the ground by a hulking trans activist ( with Jeff's own banner). Jeff Sergeant consistently speaks out for sanity, LGB rights and respect for women and safeguarding for children.
No one I know says that trans had any hand in obtaining LGB rights - which has now morphed into LGBT rights. I thought it was only white male colonists wrote history as they wanted it to be, and not as it was.
Oops Fred ( not Jeff) American/ French background.
Thanks for taking one for the team.
Brilliant as ever ol gel...keep up the excellent work.
Interestingly, Shaneel Lal is looking much more masculine these days and accordingly to his Instagram profiles, now described himself as gay with he/they prounouns. In 2023 it was trans/non-binary and she/they pronouns. Could it be that he's just growing up??
He’s not stupid. He knows that he will be taken more seriously, and get more career advancement as a masculine-presenting man, than a feminine-presenting man. It was okay to play around with his style and pronouns while he was at uni, but not if he wants to be taken seriously in the political workplace.
Thanks for taking one for the team, Katrina😄
I note that they are still trotting out the total myth that there were 'transwomen' involved in the Stonewall Riots!! Fred Sargeant can answer that one!
Have cross posted
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/get-carter-part-2
Dusty
Yes - they're shameful.
Thanks :-)
What is lal's job the the Labour Party? I must have missed something?
He's a policy researcher. I don't know more than that, but it's not good having an individual of his character involved on policy of any sort.
Hell's teeth
Tim Barnett Labour MP introduced the Bill to decriminalise prostitution, not Beyer. I was an MP then. Many MP s supported it. Dame Catherine Healy of The Prostitutes Collective deserves more credit than anyone - her lobbying was tireless, rational, and effective.
Ah - my mistake. I inferred that incorrectly from the episode. Thanks for the correction. There's been quite a bit of debate since then as to whether decriminalisation actually worked out better for prostitutes, or not. For example, as mentioned in my blogpiece, Yvonne van Dongen has dug into it and written about its negative impacts, and Wahine Toa Rising do not support decriminalisation, either. I've heard others support this perspective, too. I suspect that decriminalisation might have been one of those things that sounded great as an idea, but the reality has been somewhat different, or at least very mixed.