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May 17, 2018 by Jan Rivers

Paradise Lost; Paradise Restored?

The St Andrew’s Trust Winter Seminar, “Paradise Lost, Paradise Restored?’ is happening on Friday June 22nd and Saturday June 23rd 2018 at St Andrews on the Terrace. The Trust is the St Andrew’s Trust for the Study of Religion and Society (SATRS) Registration form and information or see below The theme is loosely structured around […]

May 13, 2018 by Jan Rivers

Presentation to the Foreign Affairs and Trade Select Committee on the CPTPA

Notes related to presentation made on 9 May Thank you for the opportunity to present my submission on the CPTPA. My comments today support my submission. I think that the National Interest Analysis (NIA) is inadequate. The CPTPA NIA does not examine the impacts of risk to a government that decides to take democratic action. […]

@greenjaneNZ @golrizghahraman Having said all that I do think there is room for accommodation, compromise and debate (although too late for NZ's law). I've been meeting with & putting out feelers to people but many are terrified of the blow back.

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@greenjaneNZ @golrizghahraman Of which the undebated & anti-democratic NZ BDRRM Bill is just one example. So I have full empathy (& quite some personal familiarity & understanding) of people with dysphoria. But my political priorities are the rights of lesbians, natal women and they also extend to gay men.

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@greenjaneNZ @golrizghahraman Or the explicit & covert work to replace sex with gender & give preference to trans over gay people in international & national law through the Jogjakarta principles and other related initiatives. tandfonline.com/doi/…

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@greenjaneNZ @golrizghahraman Or this well funded UK survey & research project. The survey is impossible to answer as a woman or man. It only makes "sense" to people who believe that sex is malleable & gender exists. futureoflegalgender.… It is flawed "research" where only one conclusion is possible.

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@greenjaneNZ @golrizghahraman When I looked more closely at where this is heading politically - the extinguishment of natal women as a distinct class of people - I decided to speak and write about it. Like this UK Professor Gender Studies for example mobile.twitter.com/s…

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@golrizghahraman You are an MP. You have accused a specific, named young woman of causing hate & violence. That I imagine is at least technically a defamation. You are also flat out saying that by not believing men can become women a person is hateful. Nothing to see here?

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The defamatory comments directed at Gender Critical commentators by Jan Logie, @golrizghahraman Louisa Wall & others is a new & deeply worrying trend in politics. They are saying that freedom of belief no longer applies to some people. #endofpluralism

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The review of government algorithms is an area of particular interest and there is a chance for civil society representation in that review. You can contact @ogpnz to request to be kept up to date with this or any of the goals.

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A few days ago the third Open Government Partnership Action Plan was launched. Its been pretty well consulted on & has some pretty decent goals. :-) ogp.org.nz/new-zeala… @ogpnz

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Every year governments worldwide spend $5.3 trillion to make fossil fuels cheaper to produce which is at least 50 * more than they spend on subsiding renewable energy. #NZ has an important role in reducing carbon extraction locally and internationally. twitter.com/theNZsto…

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