It’s becoming more and more obvious that last week’s neo-Nazi gatecrash of the Let Women Speak rally in Melbourne was a grubby, politically-motivated stitch-up. From the very moment the LARPing edgelords in their silly masks were ushered through the police cordon and allowed to do their ooh, so
As is happening with disastrous Covid policies, former enthusiasts for the equally disastrous fad of “transgenderism” are starting to walk back their previous confidence that chemically castrating and surgically mutilating children is the best “care”. Or if it should even be dignified as “care” at all. But, is “Oopsie, my
There’s a movement afoot seeking mainstream acceptance of a definition of sexuality that some traditionalists view as deviant behaviour or a mental illness or both. The “Drag Queen Story Hour” snuck into New Zealand libraries to visually assault pre-schoolers with the spectacle of transvestites wearing women’s skimpy clothing,
Never having heard of Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull or her alter-ego ‘The Posie Parker’ before objections were raised about her impending visit here, I tried to get a handle on what the fuss was about. The first thing I learned was: there is no balance in coverage of her ‘Let Women Speak’
This weekend groups of women will meet in Wellington and Auckland to discuss a topic one would assume would be welcome in 2023: women’s rights. As has always been the case in the feminist movement, the groups will be disproportionately made up of mothers and lesbians; the kind of
As Dutch provincial elections were the latest to show, people across the Western world are fed up with establishment politics. Because, on nearly every issue of substance, two-party systems have become a Tweedledum-Tweedledumber game of furious agreement with left-wing talking points. Few more so than on the brutal, misogynist assault
Family First familyfirst.org.nz This story highlights one of the many dangers resulting from gender ideology in schools. A traumatised girl of 13 says she dreads returning to school after being attacked by a boy in a gender-neutral toilet. She was left battered and bruised after he tried to
Who would have thought that we’d be depending on the Deep South to stand up for sanity and science? This being 2023, that’s exactly where we are, though. Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday signed a law prohibiting transgender people at public schools from using the restroom
Jon Pike Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, The Open University World sport has been convulsed over the past few months – indeed years – by questions about trans athletes, especially trans women, competing in their acquired gender. Most recently, World Athletics announced its “preferred option” of a reduced 2.5nmol testosterone limit for
It’s a standard trope of the transgender lobby that “trans people” are constant victims of bullying and violence. Even the mildest criticism of the idea that men who claim to be women should be allowed in women’s dressing rooms is met with whining and hand-wringing about “endangering trans
Who would have thought that stories about a man seeking revenge for the death of his wife are sexist? Some things never change. When Shrinking, Ted Lasso creator Bill Lawrence’s new comedy drama starring Jason Segel, launched on Apple TV+ in January, it was immediately apparent that the show
Family First familyfirst.org.nz Not only are female athletes having to compete against biological men, they’re also compelled to share a locker room with biological males with intact anatomy! Female swimmer Riley Gaines refuses to be silenced on the issue. The former University of Kentucky swimmer continues to
Family First Press Release The $2.2m taxpayer-funded complaints centre set up by the Human Rights Commission for receiving complaints about ‘conversion therapy’ has admitted that there have been no formal complaints about ‘conversion therapy’ since the new law was passed, despite significant advertising about its services. In response to
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia In 2013, the number of children treated annually at the Doernbecher Children’s Hospital gender clinic at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland was 16. In 2021, the number was 724 – a rise
The explosive rise in teacher sexual abuse — or at least, the explosive rise in people actually taking notice of it — in the US is notable particularly in who’s doing it. Not creepy old men with comb-overs and wandering hands, but early-middle-aged, at least moderately pretty women. Females as child
