After the failure of the previous Labour Government to bring in hate speech laws, the Law Commission is dressing up in drag to fool us all by asking for submissions on changing the 1993 Human Rights Act to include discrimination against the transgender community.
To save offence to the transgender community, we will have to do our own research on what terms are in or out with them. For instance the “I” in LGBTQI has fallen out of favour. Who knew? This could be a pit for the unwary to fall into.
One of the Law Commission’s statements in this submission floats the idea of special housing for this supposedly oppressed group.
We have already bent over backwards for them, allowing them to change their sex on their birth certificate.
Chippy said he would have liked to have been present in Albert Park on the day Posie Parker was assaulted. Pity he wasn’t, as there might have been a police presence and speakers could have been protected. A raucous group made sure there was no free speech on the transgender issue.
A recent court hearing on the tomato juice attacker, Eliana Golberstein (legal name), found her guilty and the judge said the attack was premeditated and so could not hand down a discharge.
This was obviously not one of the communist judges to whom New Zealand’s answer to Trump, Shane Jones, was referring.
A side issue to the transgender debate involves the Ministry of Health dragging their feet on the puberty blocker issue. The assertion that puberty blockers were safe and reversible has been deleted from their website. But no action since. One wonders how many hormone treatments have been given to children and adolescents since then.
The NHS England and some of the Scandinavian countries have banned them from general use for children up to the age of 18. The Tavistock Clinic in Swiss Cottage, London, was closed down completely after the Cass Report came out in 2022.
In the “Paddy Gower has Issues” programme last year, it was brought to light that between 2020 and 2022 there had been a startling increase in the number of puberty blocker treatments; from 177 in 2020 to 772 in 2022. This is a threefold increase.
No medical professional in New Zealand could speak up against this issue for fear of being labelled transphobic.
It was eventually was taken up by Winston Peters, who said young children are incapable of deciding what sex they wanted to be and adults were failing in their duty of care for youngsters.
Winston Peters spoke commonsense on this issue. It is obvious we cannot leave it in the Ministry of Health’s hands. They are burying their heads in the sand over this issue, not wanting to offend a minority group who are holding sway on this issue and ignoring warnings from other countries who have decided to go down a different path.
