Several parts of the New Zealand government have detailed the bullying and discrimination of transgender people. But no part of government has documented the bullying by transgender activists of people who don’t subscribe to gender theory. Here is a link to a recent summary from The Ministry has Fallen substack but there is much more […]

The Spinoff was set up to reflect an unrepresented demographic. Sophisticated, urban, sly and knowing the journalism came to public attention with a bang at the time of the Me Too movement with a compelling story of a sexual predation investigated by Alex Casey and Duncan Grieve. It was raw, edgy reporting that risked a […]

Introduction Should it be possible to take a case seeking to uphold a finding of a Declaration of Inconsistency with the Bill of Rights Act in relation to the main gender bills that disadvantage women, children and lesbian and gay people? This is speculative piece and I would be interested in comments. It seems a […]

A separate article addresses whether this legal case provides a model to reverse New Zealand’s gender laws? On Tuesday 9 April the Human Rights Commission is intervening on behalf a legal case that attempts to introduce new Hate Speech laws through the back door. In this case ‘Queer Theologian’ Russell Hoban is in court attempting […]

The new Scope of Practice for Midwifery. In a recent article, published on the Spinoff, Cutting through the noise: Why whānau-centred midwifery is not erasing women,(March 1) academics George Parker, Elizabeth Kerekere, Fleur Kelsey and Suzanne Miller wrote about the long-anticipated Midwifery Scope of Practice. The authors claim that they “are watching the fraught passage of […]

A research paper, Making Ourselves Visible is being used as the basis for Oranga Tamariki policy on ‘rainbow and takatāpui’ children and young people in the care and fostering systems. The research recommendations being used to create policy and are now well advanced, having begun in June 2023. But the research was outsourced to organisations […]

 Is NZ’s transgender medicine guideline an example of regulatory failure? This paper was presented at the recent Genspect Australia New Zealand Best Practice in Gender Care the inaugural event of Genspect in the region. A recently completed investigation has found that the 2018 Guidelines for gender affirming healthcare for gender diverse and transgender children, young […]