Speak Up For What?

Let’s imagine, for a minute, the worst possible outcome. That the anti-trans NZ lobby group Speak Up For Women achieve all of the ‘Projects’ they currently have listed on their website.

What does that world look like? Well, turns out, an awful lot like what the United Kingdom looks like.

First, let’s look at their six projects;

Prism Report

Let’s start with the Human Rights Commission PRISM report. Released in December last year, it was a specific report into the Human Rights of and discrimination against People of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, or sex characteristics (SOGIESC). It recommends the following six areas for improvement of the rights of, and life quality of, the SOGIESC community in Aotearoa — based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Here’s a 7 page summary of it.

Speak Up For Women want the report retracted and rewritten with their specific involvement:

It is our opinion, — that this report has misrepresented New Zealand and international law so thoroughly that the only responsible course of action is to recall it and restart the work with a range of…