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Yvonne van Dongen
Veteran NZ journo incredulous gender ideology escaped the lab. Won’t rest until reality makes a comeback.
What happens when the tide of public opinion turns against trans activism? Watch and see. It’s happening in real time in New Zealand and the trans activists know it.
The wins may seem small if you’re a sex realist but they are a sign of the direction of travel when it comes to this issue. Wins for biological reality and rejection of gender in this country have come in sport (scrapping “Guiding Principles for the Inclusion of Transgender People in Community Sport”), sex education in schools (ditching gender woo in the curriculum) and the pausing of the use of puberty blockers for minors. And let’s not forget the associate minister of health’s directive to use language denoting sex, not gender, in the health sector. So out with “pregnant people”, “people with a cervix”, or “individuals capable of childbearing”, and back in with “women” reflecting biological reality.
All these achievements will be alarming for the trans believers. Even more worrying for these fantasists are the signs of a rumbling undercurrent of dissatisfaction in normie land.
Incidents like the male teen who told the Women’s Rights Party protestors that all his mates agree with their point of view but don’t dare say anything at school tells you things are unravelling outside the fetid trans bubble. Also word on the wind is that there are more gender critical lesbians than people know because they too daren’t fall out with their tribe.
Most cheering of all are the panicky threads on Reddit. Trans advocates are feeling distinctly unloved. Their current complaint is that not enough people have been turning up to rallies opposing the pause on puberty blockers.
Seeing 250 people at one big rally dwindle to 50 at the next Block the Ban demonstration, to finally less than 20 of us at Toitū te Aroha is a metric we can improve on.
Block the Ban has less than 200 followers on Facebook. The writer apologises for sounding “guilt-trippy” but then says:
It’s a delicate balance in a fight we could start to lose at any time, that by my measure we are already losing on some fronts; the lack of good health care and the lack of supportive legislation protecting our identity stand out in particular.
Makes sense that the only people still onboard the Trans Titanic are launching a desperate counter offensive to stave off the inevitable.
It’s a trend observed elsewhere. In a column for the Telegraph this week, veteran women’s rights campaign Julie Bindel wrote about the end times reactions of UK trans activists who “are flailing about, seeking to silence dissenters any way they can” knowing the public debate is lost.
That applies to all the people (largely women) in HR, particularly in the public sector, and all those (celebrity trans) who benefit from this mass delusion.
This combo has come together in the shameful platforming of a man pretending to be a woman as the keynote speaker for International Women’s Day in Auckland on March 5. The event has been organised by a variety of women’s networks from the public sector (Auckland Council, Transport, Auckland Government and PSA). It’s more than likely that the organisers were aware their choice would be controversial but they went ahead anyway. I’m sure they think such an outré decision makes them look doubly progressive.
I get it, kind of. There’s something alluring about believing ideas so arcane and peculiar that prompts a reaction from more prosaic folk. It makes you feel just that little bit special since your infinitely more subtle intellect is able to grasp the high falutin’ concepts these knuckle-dragging oiks can’t. Except the oiks are right and the subtle concepts that at first blush make no sense, really do make NO sense.
What’s alarming about these women, and also the wokesters in academia, is their ability to indoctrinate or, at least, intimidate the next generation.
That they have the apparatus of the state to aid them in New Zealand is even more egregious. There’s the Albert Park fracas when police failed to protect gender critical women from a baying mob of trans activists in 2023. More recently, the police hounding of gender critical activist Rex Landy for offending the 6’3 hunk of delulu man called Caitlin Spice, is brilliantly outlined in John MacLean’s Substack.
Police participation in pride parades, numerous diversity liaison officers and employment of trans officer Senior Sergeant Rhona Stace all point to a culture sympathetic to the trans agenda and unsympathetic to anyone gender critical, especially women.
Ironic that for all their diversity training and intellectual gender somersaults, all New Zealand police have achieved is taking the force back to the future. They have ended up behaving like the same old sexist plonkers they used to be.
Bindel says it’s time for gender ideology to sink without trace. Too right. The sinking of the Trans Titanic can’t come soon enough.
Postscript: since this story was inspired by threads on social media, I thought you might enjoy this insight from someone on X two days ago.
We rag on the Canadians a lot but overall the most insufferable of the Anglo nations is probably New Zealand. Beautiful country but politically deranged, like if Oregon was an independent nation.
Truth.
This article was originally published on the author’s Substack.
