An awful lot has happened since the last census in 2018. A whole global pandemic, most of the Ardern premiership, the Blues have become good at rugby as the All Blacks lost their grip on the world cup. If you remember, the last census was a bit of a disaster…

I shed a few tears on the way to work this morning. It wasn’t out of nowhere, and the way things have been for the last few weeks, it wasn’t surprising. …

Oh No, The Woke! There’s an interesting new pejorative doing the rounds in the centre-right of Aotearoa New Zealand’s media, you’ve already heard it. It’s the ‘woke’ you see. They’re in control, and they stop you from doing and saying things. They’re the new Puritans, they’re the East…

This is the fourth part of a series, you can find parts 1, 2 and 3 here. So what is going on here? We have a sociologist in public health writing an Op-Ed about the UK’s gender healthcare and its lack of coverage in the NZ media, framing it with…

This is the third part of a series. Here are parts one and two. The Question How does the New Zealand model of child and teen gender services compare with the NHS model now being urgently overhauled? What a great piece of local investigative journalism that would make. Great question! So let’s…

This is the second part of a series. To find the first part, go here. Having framed the Op Ed with the claim that NZ media was ignoring the international developments in the “care and treatment being provided for children and teenagers identifying as transgender or non-binary…”, and followed that…

On Friday, August 20th, Newsroom published an Op-Ed, “Parents of Gender Questioning children in NZ being let down” by Dr. Sarah Donovan. It caught my eye, in part, for the same reasons Dr. Donovan wrote it. Aside from the discussions about the BDMRR and the Conversion Therapy Ban, there’s been…

The following article was published on Newsroom 20/08/22. I’m reposting it here with all of the original links to supporting evidence for claims made within. The facts matter. The case of the UK’s Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) has led some to question how much information is available to…

It’s a two-and-a-half-hour drive up the valley to reach Aoraki. The last half-hour, running close to the banks of Lake Pukaki, takes you from golden tussock into gasp-inducingly sized mountains. Each time you take the drive you notice something else, this time it was the slips on some of the…