The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a triannual United Nations process to report on Human Rights. The government does a self assessment and individuals and groups can create their own feedback into the process. At the UN other countries make suggestions for improvements. The New Zealand government has just released its draft report. Details are […]
Gender Scepticism
Speak Up For Women and Women Act Up held a rally at Parliament on Thursday 8 June, just a week before New Zealand’s Self Identification Law comes into force. The two groups invited 6 gay and lesbian speakers and I was one. According to a poster from Wellington Group “Queer Endurance’ who protested the event […]
Media Council finds Stuff endorses unbalanced coverage on puberty blockers
And Health Ministry communications staff mislead the media. A September 2022 story on Stuff written by journalist Rachel Thomas has been found to lack balance. In ‘Puberty blockers still considered safe and reversible, health Ministry says‘ published on Sep 25 2022 Thomas sought commentary from the Ministry of Health, (who misled her) as well as […]
Why the Ministry of Health had to act on children and gender medicine.
This is the full text with references of the material sent to the New Zealand Herald which became the 24 April article titled “Questions mount around the use of puberty blockers for children“. I’ve expanded the words puberty blockers (instead of PB) for easier reading. A few footnotes explain how to find the specific text […]
An Open Letter about Green Party MPs trying to prevent advocacy for women’s rights.
Down load the article as a pdf. Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (aka Posie Parker) is a UK Women’s Rights Activist who provides women with a platform to speak about how their lives have been impacted by gender theory See [i] in their own words. She is being hosted in New Zealand by a group of feminist women […]
Should the New Zealand Ministry of Health adopt WPATH’s SOC 8?
Read the full paper here Read the full paper here WPATH is the World Profesional Association for Transgender Health. The organisation recently released new standards of care which our Ministry of Health has said it will rely on. They said Our approach to the provision of gender affirming health care will continue to be guided […]
The closure of England’s youth gender medicine clinic and its impacts for New Zealand
Click to open a PDF version with a full table of contents The Closure of England’s Youth Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) How the debate on puberty blockers plays out in New Zealand. Discussion Appendices References The Closure of England’s Youth Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) On 28 July 2022 the National Health Service announced […]
Who could be who in the new cabinet?
Everyone is so preoccupied with the diversions of government formation that there’s little talk of the outcome and who might be in the new roles. The lack of informed speculation about the policy accommodations of both options is bizarre and the sight of a media crew waiting in the parliamentary complex lobbies to report on […]
Conference report back
In all about 60 people attended Information, ethics and the public good. We heard a dozen great speakers and had about 4 hours dedicated to debate and discussion focused on what we had heard. A full conference report is in development and the full content of the presentations will be posted here over the next […]
On the cusp of something very special (part two).
So Bill English thinks that welfare is like crack cocaine and the successful National Government has announced its intention to cut the welfare bill significantly. He revealed in June that if re-elected National will bring about the biggest changes to public services that NZ has seen in 50 years. How will it do this? Here is […]
On the cusp of something very special?
Is the National Party keeping some things out of sight in case they frighten the electorate? Here is some worrying evidence that this may be the case. On 20 June this year there was a Wikileaks release on the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) and the media coverage internationally was mainly related to its potential […]
Speech to the clean politics rally Parliament 10 September
Several people at the rally asked me to publish this speech. Here it is Tena koutou e hoa ma Ko Jan Rivers toku ingoa We held a conference at St Andrews on the Terrace on Aug 1 and 2. The topic was democracy, ethics and the public good. But the Public Good is really much […]
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