5 days agoI Can’t Do This Any More…I’m Just Burning Out. Midway through Term 3 of 2022, I did something I have never done before as a teacher. I looked at the class I was teaching, and then at the class I would be teaching in 2023 and thought “I don’t want to do this anymore”. Now, that might seem mild…Teacher12 min readTeacher12 min read
Mar 6Making Sense Of The “Census Boycott”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…Census4 min readCensus4 min read
Feb 15Out Of TimeI 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. …Climate Change10 min readClimate Change10 min read
Jan 28A Woking NightmareOh 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…Aotearoa10 min readAotearoa10 min read
Oct 21, 2022The Opinion: The UK Media Is TransphobicThis 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…Transgender8 min readTransgender8 min read
Oct 20, 2022The Opinion: The NZ ModelThis 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…Transgender5 min readTransgender5 min read
Oct 20, 2022The Opinion: The Interim ReportThis 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…Transgender8 min readTransgender8 min read
Oct 18, 2022The 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. …Transgender7 min readTransgender7 min read
Aug 20, 2022Staying Informed On Gender HealthcareThe 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 Healthcare4 min readTrans Healthcare4 min read
Apr 27, 2022Within RangeIt’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…4 min read4 min read
