Study Percentage of minors receiving GnRH analogues going on to cross-sex hormones Brik et al, 2020 96.5% Carmichael et al., 2021 98% De Vries et al., 2011 100% Nyquist et al., 2024 97% van der Loos et al., 2023 93% (some of the 7% stopped because of compliance issues)
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 […]
Thank you to Rhys and Inflection Point for wrangling this conference today. I have seen how much work it has taken.Rhys has been an example of grace under pressure. Always calm and upbeat. We don’t all agree I would like to say at the outset that deciding whether to speak here today was difficult. I […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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