How do you tell The Spinoff they’ve been wrong?
How do you tell Stuff, RNZ and vast swathes of the Public service it’s all been a bit of a bullshit fad?
How do you tell the Woke Wellington Wankers, those Transphobe purges and cancelation social media lynchings may have been a tad overdone?
And most importantly, how do you do it without exciting transphobic right hate groups?
It’s a balancing act for Minister Matt Doocey…
Mental Health Minister stalls release of ‘puberty blockers’ health advice
New advice about when to prescribe “puberty blockers” has been kept sealed, months after health officials asked to release the updated best practice guidelines.
Through 2023, Ministry of Health experts worked to write an “evidence brief” assessing the efficacy, safety, physical and mental outcomes of prescribing “puberty blockers” to young transgender patients and those experiencing gender dysphoria.
At the same time, the UK was working on its own independent review into gender identity healthcare. Its report, the Cass Review, found political ideologies from both sides of the debate had muddied evidence about gender identity healthcare. It found there was “no good evidence” regarding the long term effects of treatments.
The UK Labour Party and most, but not all, UK medical groups accepted the findings. As a result, England’s National Health Service (NHS) has effectively stopped the use of puberty blockers in almost all cases – awaiting further evidence.
…it is hard to acknowledge a middle class identity cult has become a fad, but the stats don’t lie…
…Ian Powell’s thoughtful critique of puberty blockers is an important contribution here.
This is a liberal progressive democracy, and everyone is promised the same agency and we want our Trans whanau to enjoy the same fruits of human rights we all enjoy, and for those who identity is a real issue, we want them to flourish, however when a middle class identity cult takes over the cultural debate to try and enforce a medical solution to their gender dogma, that’s where the adults in the room have to collectively stand and say, ‘no’.
There are genuine issues here that we have ignored in the rush to endorse woke Trans dogma, however what we don’t want is the excesses of the middle class cult to excite the transphobic right hate groups into any belief of justification.
My sense is that the Woke are in retreat and that their power to cancel and demand your lose your job is waning. They are making a last stand around Darleen Tana inside the Greens , but even the Greens privately acknowledge it’s all gone a bit too far and wanky now.
No poor person is sitting around the kitchen table cancelling each other for misusing pronouns, they are sitting around the table trying to work out how to pay the bills.
If the Woke have finished tearing the entire Left wing to pieces and alienating voters for a sub group of a sub group who represents less than 1% of the voting population, that would just be neat thanks.
There’s a planet burning, vast inequality and the Right keep using the extremes of the woke as political ammunition for a culture war the Left can’t win.
How many times do I need to point this out?
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It’s been amusing to watch the left destroy itself. It just goes to show how they can push a narrative only so far, but eventually it becomes just too obvious to the public that the king has no clothes.
To summarize:
1. There are only two genders, unless we’re discussing the German language.
2. A vanishingly small percentage are born with genital abnormalities, but their chromosomes are still either XX or XY.
3. Some kids query their gender. They may be gay, autistic or just attention seeking. Whatever; it’s not a reason to mess with their body chemistry and cut their tits off. It’s become almost a fashion statement in some schools to invent a gender and declare you’re it. This is just teenagers acting out. Ignore them and it’ll go away.
4. There are mothers who are willing to abuse their kids in this way to gain attention. Could this be a version of ‘Munchausen by proxy’? They’re batshit crazy and need husbands to set them straight before it gets out of hand.
5. Some people have gender dysphoria. Until recent times, before psychology professional was run by political insurgents, this was classed as a mental illness and definitely not something to be encouraged. Just like thinking you’re Napoleon or Joan of Arc: You’re not. Look no further than childhood trauma and abuse in the home to find the cause of that.
6. In the USA a lot of money has been made out of surgeries and peddling pharmaceuticals. Similarly, a lot of frauds in academia have made a quid by basing their careers on this garbage. I hope the blowback will be fierce for them because the damage they’ve done is enormous.
100% Andrew.
We all got to see who the fools and enablers are amongst us. Again.
It’s completely ridiculous to say it’s just a left thing. I can assure you a good number of people making money in the States off this will be very much on the right.
Own the cult behavior of your tribe wheel.
You can’t “whatabout” this one.
It’s not my tribe you f*ckwit. Idiots like you and your left versus right algorithm addled brain are the problem a large part of the time.
But it’s OK for rabbis and orthodox priests to slice up a baby boys penis at birth?
Happily there is a far more detailed story all ready to go. Here is the best background on why gender medicine as practiced in NZ (not just puberty blockers) has to be reviewed. https://blog.fullyinformed.nz/p/letter-to-new-zealand-media-on-wpath
The graph is not from Pharmac but from Charlotte Paul’s North and South article from November 2023. It is an under count as it excludes the medicated under 12s.
Yeah to the story and all comments above.
If you want to ban puberty blocker, that is fine. Let’s ban male and female circumcision as well. Just because you think a dead Palestinian carpenter sits in the same room as you doesn’t give you any more right to slice up genitals.
Hey, we agree,
“If you want to ban puberty blocker, that is fine. Let’s ban male and female circumcision as well”.
Definitely, ban male and female circumcision as well. Stop all child mutilation, experimental, surgical, chemical, religious.
How is this any different to a womans right to choose an abortion? Why does anyone with no dog in the fight insist that using puberty blockers is any of their business?
/smh
I’m just relieved that we have such a competent minister in Matt Doocey to handle this…..
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