Who's holding the line for women’s sex-based rights in NZ, now that legacy women’s organisations won’t?

Jill Ovens, national secretary and co-leader of the Women’s Rights Party NZ, gives an excellent presentation about the party in this recent Women’s Declaration International video below. In it, she describes how the Women’s Rights Party came about, and what it has done since its inception, including campaigning during the run-up to the general election in October 2023.

Amongst a scant handful of other groups and organisations now, the Women’s Rights Party is dedicated to holding the line for women’s sex-based rights. Most legacy organisations, such as the National Council of Women, have disgracefully sold out to the agenda of men who say they’re women. In the case of the National Council of Women it’s especially disgraceful, because Kate Sheppard, who is revered for being highly instrumental in winning the vote for women in NZ in 1893, was the “inaugural president of the National Council of Women of New Zealand (NCW) in 1896”. She’d turn in her grave at the sell-out the National Council of Women has become. They don’t even mention the word ‘woman’ once on the front page of their website anymore, apart from in their title, which I’m sure they’d bastardise if they could. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if efforts are already underway to rename the organisation the ‘National Council of People who Identify as being a Woman’.

Jill Ovens, New Zealand - The Women’s Rights Party: Holding the Line

Zonta appears to be one of those included in the sellouts. Initially, they come across as all for and all about women, especially when they support groups like Wahine Toa Rising (Wahine Toa = Strong/Brave Women), who are a survivor-led group for women and children in the sex trade.

Knowing what I now know about women’s organisations, though, I contacted the NZ-based organisation via their website around mid-September, and politely asked if they included men who say they’re women in their advocacy. Then I did a bit more digging around, and found that Zonta International have a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion statement – groan. In it they state “As a global organization, Zonta International values the contributions of members of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, race, color, ability, religion, socio-economic status, culture, sexual orientation or gender identity”. Double groan. So, Zonta is not only for women, but also for men who say they’re women. I knew then that there was probably a snowball’s chance in hell of getting a reply from Zonta NZ. So far, I’ve been proved right.

I don’t know of any women’s organisations advocating for both women and men who say they’re women, can hand-on-heart say there’s no conflict of interest. Any answers they give to questions about that are obfuscatory and disingenuous. Men who say they’re women do not enhance women’s organisations in any way, nor do they add to them in any way which is not primarily focussed on benefiting men who say they’re women.

If you live in New Zealand, membership to the Women’s Rights Party is open to both women and men, and supports them by adding numbers to their membership list. It’s just $5 per year. I myself am a peripherally active member, as I feel I may be a little too wayward these days for full involvement – lol! As we know, transactivists like nothing better than to try and destroy organisations that won’t worship at the altar of gender ideology, and, because I freely ‘misgender’ men who say they’re women, it’s entirely possible they could try and use me to discredit the party.

To the Women’s Rights Party credit, though, they won’t entertain transactivists even for one second. Unlike legacy women’s organisations, they know how to stay true to women.