Lies Gender Activists Tell
To all of us, but especially children
International Women’s Day (March 8) came and went without fanfare. No parade, no fawning media and nary a mention by any major political party except New Zealand First. The Prime Minister will happily celebrate Pride week/month/whatever, welcome Ramadan in a personal video but not a word for half the world’s population.
Is that what happens when we lose the definition of what a woman is? We also lose visibility, relevance, political clout?
Or could it just be embarrassment since every major political party, except New Zealand First, pushed through policies which elevated the bogus notion of gender and eroded women’s sex-based rights, as well as the integrity of our public records, during the years of the Labour-led government.
The most egregious of these policies is probably self-sex ID. Most people now know that changes to legislation in 2023 allow individuals to amend their sex on their birth certificate based on how they identify without any other eligibility criteria, and to be able to do this as often as they wish. Although women can also alter their sex on their birth certificate, men insisting they are women pose greater physical risks to women, hence the opposition by sex realists such as the Women’s Rights Party (WRP).
What people may not realise is that amendments were made to legislation in December last year, allowing parents to choose whether they are listed as ‘mother’, ‘father’ or ‘parent’ on their child’s birth certificate. When the Minister of Internal Affairs, Brooke van Velden, introduced the changes, she said they acknowledged diverse family structures and personal identities.
What the amendments to the legislation really achieve is a denial of reality. It means that same sex couples can both be listed as ‘mother’ or both be listed as ‘father.’ Other couples may opt for the sex-neutral term, ‘parent.’ But these options give legal weight to a lie. Men cannot be mothers. Women cannot be fathers. The word ‘parent’ is a total denial of sex. Nowhere are the child’s rights to know their genetic heritage considered.
History tells us that adopted children are desperate to know their birth parents. Open adoptions are the norm in New Zealand today, that is the adopted child has ongoing contact or communication with the birth family. How will the child of two mothers or two fathers feel when they grow up if they have no way of finding out who both their birth parents are?
Sex is real. Gender is not. Gender is a social concept, that is, you are whatever you say you are. The insidious inclusion of gender in legislation and in education effectively erodes the reality of biological sex and the integrity of public records.
For instance, gender was inserted into legislation such as the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Act 2022 thus preventing adults such as parents/therapists/medical professionals challenging a child who believes they are transgender. It effectively puts the child on a gender affirming path, which is indeed the policy of the Ministry of Health, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, New Zealand Society of Endocrinology, the New Zealand Sexual Health Society and the Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa.
As well, gender is taught as part of sex education in schools, although the coalition government has agreed to remove and replace the gender, sexuality, and relationship-based education guidelines
The Law Commission is currently promoting the inclusion of gender in the Human Rights Act. Their report recommending this change will go to Parliament in June. In addition the Law Commission is looking at making hate crimes a separate law. They have listed race, religion and gender identity as aggravating factors. Sex is not mentioned.
But as WRP founder Jill Ovens says: “Most people who commit sexual assaults and rape are usually misogynist men. They hate women.”
Gender sounds so right-on and non-judgemental, as if it is describing a new tribe or thrilling new way of looking at the world. In practice, gender is the modern word for misogyny. It is both a denial of reality and, thus, of women’s sex-based rights.
As if that’s not bad enough, the glaring homophobia in gender ideology is rarely acknowledged. If sex is erased, same sex attracted people will no longer be able to exclude the opposite sex from their spaces. Lesbians will be expected to welcome men, gay men to include women. All around the western world same sex spaces have closed as a result of the march of gender ideology.
In the words of the most famous sex realist in the world, author J.K. Rowling, in response to yet another legal ruling prohibiting lesbians from excluding men:
“Either you think lesbians should be allowed to exclude heterosexual men from their meetings, or you are a homophobe who thinks the desires of fetishistic straight male cross-dressers trump the rights of same-sex attracted women. There is no third option.”
Facts matter. Reality matters. Accurate public records matter. As Australian sex rights campaigner Sall Grover put it: “If you think women have penises, I won’t believe a single word you say about anything else. Because if you lie about something so obvious I will assume you lie about everything.”
International Women’s Day 2025 might have been a fizzer in New Zealand, but there was one bright light. Women’s Rights Party Jill Ovens held a small gathering in Mt Albert, featuring a petition to have Suffrage Day recognised as a national public holiday. This petition is an acknowledgement of the fact that New Zealand was the first self-governing country to allow all adult women to vote. Imagine if women were celebrated with the same hoopla as Pride.
All this blurring the lines of sex reality, for the sake of assuaging the feelings of a few, is going to be of ZERO benefit to women and children as a whole, as you indicated.
Well said that woman! Yes, lying is their superpower. I'm surrounded by liars in my life, personal and political, and each and every one of them proves Swift's observation in 1710 that 'falsehood flies and the truth comes limping after it.' Liars travel in packs and mobs to add to the illusion of truth, a kind of truth by numbers. I am forever limping after them. Add to that the underlying hatred of women, the mothers not least, the feminists most of all, and what we Terfs are up against is a veritable festival of falsehoods told against us by the majority constantly. All their fake fun and inclusion pomp, including drag storytime, is classic Pied Piper stuff, lapped up by all the aggrieved children now adults whose mothers didn't 'affirm' their every whim and delusion. It was a bit of a 'limping' get-together for the WRP on Saturday - I arrived late, having gotten lost, which was embarrassing. But it was still a testimony to the courage and determination of the rare truth tellers in this fight, Jill Ovens first and foremost. The Suffrage day holiday here is a good idea to remind us of how our little nation once did something very big indeed, and perhaps to encourage a few more to have pride in that instead of men in fishnets and fake boobs 'reading' to children.