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John McLean
Citizen typist. Enthusiastic amateur.
The best-preserved and most complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex is named “Sue”. While Rex means “King” in Latin, Tyrannosaurus Rexes, like humans, were born biologically either male or female. Scientists can’t tell whether Sue, in life, was male or female. However, the superb Sue specimen of Tyrant Lizard King was indisputably born either a girl or a boy to be named Sue.
A human know as Rex is due to appear in Court on 5 March 2026 to face further charges under New Zealand’s Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015. Rex, who’s full first name is in fact Rexene, is a proud and pugnacious Māori woman/wahine, and unabashed TERF (Trans-exclusionary radical feminist). She is a queen of women’s rights advocacy in New Zealand who could aptly have instead been called Regina (Queen) Landy.
The further charges that Rex is facing are just another chapter in a sad and sinister saga. Rex is an outspoken advocate of the indisputable reality that a biological man simply cannot become a biological woman. She also advocates against men who are trying to be women (or who are heterosexual men who get sexual jollies out of wearing women’s clothes – gynephiliacs) being allowed into exclusive women’s only spaces – women’s toilets and changing rooms etc. Rex can write the house down:
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Aotearoaistan first put Rex in the state’s cross hairs in September 2024. The police issued a formal order, under the HDC Act, for her to delete all her social media content that included coverage of an individual named Daniel Johnston. Daniel had complained to the police about Rex’s coverage of Daniel. Dan The Man identifies as female and refers to himself as Caitlin Spice.
I’ve seen no evidence that Dan has changed his legal name – something that’s easy enough to do. But, in deference to Daniel’s outward sensibilities (but not his preferred pronouns), I’ll call him by his preferred surname, Spice. Spice appears to have undergone surgery and hormone treatments to try and become, in adulthood, a woman. Fill your boots, I say, if that’s what you want.
Unfortunately, Rex’s conscientious attempt to delete her Spicey content – in compliance with the court order – was not entirely successful. She’d inadvertently missed two of her Substack articles that referenced Spice. Rex’s efforts to sanitize her social media had been seriously hampered by debilitating grief at the death of her beloved brother, who had died a fortnight before the order.
Then, on 18 December 2024, police raided Rex’s home, arrested her and seized all her electronic devices, including her laptop. On 29 January 2025, police charged Rex with more alleged offences, claiming she’d referenced Spice on YouTube and in a tweet, charges that Rex denies.
It got even worse for Rex in October 2025 when the police tried to arrest her again over a Reduxx article about (but not by) her.
Police didn’t add more charges at that stage but continue to mercilessly hound Rex. In December 2025, police offered Rex “diversion” (no continuing criminal charges) on the conditions that she complete 20 hours community service, sign a “keep the peace” undertaking regarding Spice and issue a letter of regret. Rex fulfilled those conditions but when she turned up at court on 9 February 2026 to confirm she’d done so, the police reneged on their diversion promise and looked to lay further charges for which Rex is now due to appear in court on 5 March 2026.
The further charges that Rex is facing result from further allegations that Rex has somehow again referenced Spice. The difficulties Rex faces are essentially two-fold. First, self-absorbed Spice reads any reference to “trans” in Rex’s public pronouncements as a specific reference to him. Secondly, credulous police plods, trying to be hip cool and totally down with the gender ideology, believe anything and everything that comes out of Spice’s lipsticked mouth and consider him to be an entirely innocent victim of Rex’s robust TERF testiness about trans people.
In fact, Spice has for years been an obsessive online stalker and critic of ‘gender critical’ women, particularly Rex. More pertinently, Spice has successfully ‘weaponized’ the HDC Act in his favour, convincing the police and the courts of his victimhood. Legislation intended to protect genuine victims of digital communications causing them “serious emotional distress” has been weaponized by creatures of the Weird World of Woke to silence freedoms of expression. Rather than showing any genuine signs of distress, Spice is loud and proud about his physical state and forays into the women’s:
Rex and Spice obviously hate each other’s guts. That happens and should be the end of it. Divergences of view on gender ideology is a realm that the police and courts should steer well clear of, in a supposedly free country such as New Zealand. If there’s a victim here, it’s Rex. Spice is a daunting specimen coming in at 6’3’’, a foot taller than Rex. It’s only Rex’s wordsmithing that’s punchy. Spice is an attention-seeking provocateur, cry bully and borderline misogynist.
According to Spice’s Facebook page, he’s a “horror and dark fantasy writer”. But in truth, the only true horror story that Spice has authored is the ordeal he’s putting Rex through. This is all a cruel and perverted inversion of victimhood and a classic example of the process being the punishment.
Rex has become a living litmus test of where free speech is at in New Zealand. Authoritarian censoriousness stalks the land, aided and abetted by the woke politicians and public “servants”, the police and the courts. If Rex goes down on the charges she’s facing, there’ll be Hell to pay. The silent majority of New Zealanders have just about had enough.
Rex is far from alone. She’s especially blessed with two like-minded sisters, Phillippa and Diane. In 2024, the owner operator of the Ōtaki New World, some nitwit Matthew Mullins, obtained a trespass order from the police, formally banning Phillippa Landy for the mortal sin of outwardly manifesting her TERFinity.
The Landy Ladies go to great lengths to promote and celebrate what is good, and right, and proper. Below is a snap of the tremendous trio, on Suffragette Day, when they ventured with the Women’s Rights Party from Wellington’s Midland Park to parliament, where they flew the Suffragette flag (something parliament refused to do). There’s no substitute for class.
Make no mistake, New Zealand’s true fighters for freedom and female emancipation will begin to march in masse in protest against the cancel culturalists if the likes of Rex are targeted and harassed much more by the police and Courts. The Free Speech Union is firmly in Rex’s camp.
The assaults on free speech just keep coming in New Zealand, from every quarter of the Wokesphere. Government Ombudsman John Allen, who’s supposed to be a champion of governmental transparency, has again showed his true colours.
In the last quarter of 2025 Sean Plunket, Head Honcho of independent media channel the Platform, made an Official Information Act request to the Broadcasting Standards Authority for information held by the BSA relating to its assertion of jurisdiction over The Platform. I’ve covered the BSA’s awful antics in an earlier Substack.
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For spurious and unlawful reasons, the BSA refused Plunket’s OIA request. So in November 2025, Plunket complained to the Ombudsman about the BSA’s refusal. And now, over three months after Plunket’s complaint, the Ombudsman has replied. It should come as no surprise that the Ombudsman has indicated it will side with the BSA. I’ll cover this disturbing development more fully in my next Substack.
In an election year, the Forces of Darkness and Unreason are consolidating and circling their wagons against the Forces of Light, Freedom, Transparency and Democracy. It’s game on. Bring it on.
This article was originally published on the author’s Substack.
