The NZ Police Prosecution Service finally sees sense, and absolves Rex Landy of any criminal charges.

It's been an ordeal, but Rex prevailed.

What a day Tuesday was. I, and Debbie Hayes – she of the petition against the Midwifery Council –, winged our way to Wellington to support Rex Landy during the court case brought against her by the NZ Police. They were acting on a complaint originating from Rex’s hurty words about a man who says he’s a woman, and who now goes by the name of Caitlin Spice.

‘Caitlin Spice’ is the big dude in a dress on the right-hand end of this group. He does a good line in simpering in public. I’ve no idea what event this picture was taken at.

Rex, short for Rexene, is a Māori woman who is funny, offensive, salty, ferocious, kind and generous. She takes aim at men who say they’re women, and lets them have both barrels of her wit and antipathy – i.e. she says and writes hurty words, and there’s no doubt those words can have a shark’s bite to them.

Caitlin Spice goes internet hunting for mentions of his name in ways he can take offence at, and then claim he’s been harmed. His reputation for doing this, and for then running ‘seek and destroy’ missions against those he’s decided have offended him is not unknown. Rex is not the first he’s targeted in this manner. True to form, he made a complaint - directly to the police - about Rex’s hurty words, and in September 2024 the police ordered Rex, under the Harmful Digital Communications Act (HDCA),to take down all mention of Caitlin Spice from Rex’s social media accounts and posts. Strangely, though, Rex says that the police never actually served an HDCA on her, despite ordering her to take down the posts under that act. And no evidence of the supposed ‘harm’ was ever produced, regardless of repeated requests from Rex for it.

She agreed to comply with the take down order, mainly because she and her siblings were in mourning from having unexpectedly lost their brother just two weeks previously, so she had no will to fight it. Out of the entirety of all the deletions she did, which included deleting her whole Gettr profile, two posts were missed. Naturally, Spice ferreted these out, because that’s what Spice does.

Instead of the police cutting Rex some slack and just telling her to get rid of the remaining posts, because she’d obviously shown a sincere attempt at compliance, they came to her home shortly before Christmas in December 2024 , seized all her electronic devices, and arrested her. She was unable to remove the offending posts until she eventually managed to borrow a device to do so. By then it was too late, and the police charged her with not complying with the take down order.

There was more to come. In January 2025 the police laid another charge against Rex for apparently referring to Spice in a YouTube livestream, which Rex denied. Then in October, after Reduxx published an article about Rex’s situation, the police arrested Rex again, but after a voluntary interview decided against pressing additional charges for that.

This has all resulted in several court appearances for Rex, including the one Debbie and I went to recently on Tuesday 16^th December, with a different team of police prosecutors at each. She was facing the possibility of three months jail or a $50K fine. Rex’s lawyer sought diversion for her, which “is a scheme operated by the police that allows first-time offenders to take responsibility for their offending outside the court system and avoid getting a criminal record.” Seeking and being granted diversion for a first offence and for someone without a criminal record, both of which apply to Rex, is a common practice at the first court hearing. It’s hard not to feel that the Police Prosecution Service wasn’t acting with bias, especially when the court was told by them at one hearing that they considered diversion would be a waste of time as Rex was “in the grip of an ideology”.

Can you believe that? The person who adheres to reality by not buying into the fantasy that men can be women is supposedly in the grip of an ideology, whilst the man who fantasises that he’s a woman isn’t. Could it possibly be any clearer that trans ideology wrecks critical thinking abilities?

Rex was even denied the participation of Te Pae Oranga Iwi Community Panels, which are “a way that Police and iwi/Māori partners deal with crime and prevent reoffending. It’s available to people of all ethnicities, from all walks of life”. It galled her, and her sisters, to be denied that, whilst having to sit and listen to the court proceedings being opened with (virtue-signalling and mangled) Māori language, which is standard lip-service enacted for Māori culture now.

From all accounts, Spice was rather ‘cocky’ about Rex being smashed at her final court appearance, and intended to be there to see it. He’s a delicate and fearful soul, though, all six foot plus of him, and he requested a screen to sit behind in the court room, so he could stay safe from any terfs who turned up.

And terfs from all around the country did turn up to support Rex, to the flicker of mild surprise that crossed the judge’s face. There were 23 of us all told, which was somewhat problematic as the court room only had 20 seats in the public gallery, so some missed out.

But, they didn’t miss out for long, as we went in at 9.30am and it was all over by 9.45am. The new Police Prosecution Service team dropped the YouTube livestream charge, and agreed to restorative justice and diversion for Rex for failing to take down the two posts that she missed. This will entail an apology and some community service, to be finalised in another court appearance in February.

Between the Friday prior to Tuesday’s hearing and late Monday afternoon, something happened to make the Police Prosecution Service change their minds. What that was, we don’t know, and anyone who does isn’t saying. Spice didn’t turn up, either, and currently seems to have deleted or hidden his BlueSky account with all his gloating and tirades on it. We can only speculate what changed the expected course of events, and sent Spice into hiding. No doubt he will emerge again at some stage to continue on his crusade of spit and spite.

Rex exited the court room to a round of applause from the supporting terfs who’d already filed out, and were waiting for her. It was a good day. What kind of precedence this sets around the freedom to ‘misgender’ and ‘deadname’ going forward is still being mulled over.

After all the court business was done and dusted, the ‘after match function’ began. Although there is the common courtesy of acknowledging, as the saying goes, that ‘what goes on on tour, stays on tour’, I can say a little bit about it, of course. My main takeaway of it is that after we left the District Court it was one fun day, which began about five hours sooner than expected. Those who didn’t have to immediately leave congregated in the Old Bailey down the road to celebrate. Because the court hearing was over so quickly it wasn’t even 10am when we got there, so the bar itself was still closed. Coffee was first on the agenda, anyway, for a number of us.

A few hours later, we made our way to the hotel suite hired by one of our group, and continued with food, beverages, and conviviality there. Amongst our group was filmmaker, Gaylene Barnes, who is in the process of making a documentary about the fight terfs are having here in New Zealand. The doco is centred around Rex, but will have interviews and engagement with others, too, and selected bits of the aforementioned conviviality may also be seen 😊

Rex and me outside Courtroom 6 at the District Court.

Here is Rex’s own latest update: One Year to the Day of My Arrest For Hurty Words