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Jan 28

A Woking Nightmare

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 German Stasi on social media. Except…

Aotearoa

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A Woking Nightmare
A Woking Nightmare
Aotearoa

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Oct 21, 2022

The Opinion: The UK Media Is Transphobic

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…

Transgender

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The Opinion: The UK Media Is Transphobic
The Opinion: The UK Media Is Transphobic
Transgender

8 min read


Oct 20, 2022

The Opinion: The NZ Model

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…

Transgender

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The Opinion: The NZ Model
The Opinion: The NZ Model
Transgender

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Oct 20, 2022

The Opinion: The Interim Report

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…

Transgender

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The Opinion: The Interim Report
The Opinion: The Interim Report
Transgender

8 min read


Oct 18, 2022

The Opinion: The Legal Case?

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. …

Transgender

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The Opinion: The Legal Case?
The Opinion: The Legal Case?
Transgender

7 min read


Aug 20, 2022

Staying Informed On Gender Healthcare

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…

Trans Healthcare

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Staying Informed On Gender Healthcare
Staying Informed On Gender Healthcare
Trans Healthcare

4 min read


Apr 27, 2022

Within Range

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…

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Within Range
Within Range

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Mar 18, 2022

Here We Go Again

Having failed to stop the BDMRR being passed, had their opposition to the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation, getting told where to go by the Human Rights Commission after they criticised their PRISM report — this week Aotearoa New Zealand’s transphobic movement opened up a new front. Schools. This isn’t a…

Lgbtqia

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Here We Go Again
Here We Go Again
Lgbtqia

8 min read


Feb 19, 2022

Fractured Reality

The last few years have been weird, right? The whole global pandemic thing, the shut-down of international travel, the death toll in the millions, the not-yet fully manifested horror of Long Covid. Lockdown in March 2020 was scary but, like the coronavirus itself, novel. Watching other countries completely fail to…

Covid 19

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Fractured Reality
Fractured Reality
Covid 19

11 min read


Jan 15, 2022

Forty-Five South

You never know what you’re going to get, moving to a new place. Obviously, we’d fallen for the small, beautiful South Island town on our honeymoon seven years ago, and reminded ourselves of that in April of last year. …

Oamaru

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Forty-Five South
Forty-Five South
Oamaru

4 min read

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