James Parker mercatornet.com James Parker is a former gay activist and abuse survivor who supports people and their loved ones around sexuality, gender and identity. British paediatrician Hilary Cass, chair of England’s Independent Review of gender identity services for children and young people, submitted her final report and
bobmccoskrie.com There is a landmark case that will determine whether sex or gender identity takes precedence in law. Tickle v Giggle. Yes, it sounds like a comedy – but it’s actually a very serious and significant case that could have ramifications for New Zealand as to how we define
There may be more faddish creatures than teenage girls, but if there are, marketers are yet to find them. Teenagers, as David Cole has written, are “tiny-brained, feebleminded followers who rarely think things through and have not yet grasped notions like “consequences.” Throw a little mental illness, or a few
Remember Shaneel Lal whining to media that he feared for his life before the arrival of Kellie-Jay Keen for an Auckland Let Women Speak rally? Lal lied – he didn’t actually fear for his life – what he refused to admit was the very real threat that real women pose to
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff shortly there after. Her
bobmccoskrie.com One of the problems with the whole push to allow children to try and change their sex through preferred pronouns, puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, and ultimately castration of health body parts, is that because it’s a relatively new phenomenon, the trans activists have been able to
bobmccoskrie.com The mainstream media, left wing politicians and commentators say that the opposition to sexualised drag queens reading to children in libraries ( but not to elderly people in rest homes, interestingly) is just “imported American culture wars from the far right”. Nothing could be further from the truth. Even
The great philosopher of science, Karl Popper, started his academic life in psychology (having first worked in road construction, then as a cabinet maker). It was during his studies of psychology that Popper noticed something: for all its pretensions to being a ‘science’, psychology too often resembled a pseudoscience: most
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff shortly there after. Her
Faith Kuzma Faith Kuzma is a retired Assistant Professor of English. Kuzma has written for Salvo, The Canadian Patriot, American Spectator, Psych Reg, and Mercator. mercatornet.com WPATH, or the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, is respected as the peak body for transgender medicine. Its “standards of care” (SOC)
Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.
Remember when it was all, “Gays are just nice, normal people entitled to their privacy like anyone else”? Somehow that’s become, “Gays like to bang animals and they want to tell your kids about it in secret!” If the latter sounds “homophobic” to you, rest easy. It’s officially
As I wrote recently, New Zealand police are hot on the case when some petty vandalism sets the rainbow chickens clucking, but actual crimes? Of the robby, stabby, shooty, kind? You won’t see them for dust. In fact, most New Zealanders don’t even bother reporting crimes any more,
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff shortly there after. Her
She’d no doubt hate the comparison, but it’s hard not to think of Margaret Thatcher’s doubtless most famous phrase, when watching J. K. Rowling stand up to the bully-boys in dresses and their cowardly, creepy enablers in the parliaments, courts and police stations. I prefer to believe
