Hundreds march in Wellington to support access for puberty blockers, gender-affirming care
Hundreds of people marched on Parliament to protest against moves that could change how puberty blockers are prescribed in gender-affirming care.
Last year, health officials called for a new cautious approach after the Government signalled an intent to consider regulating prescriptions to young people.
Regulatory measures could include restricting the prescribing of puberty blockers in the context of gender-affirming care but not its use in other contexts, the ministry said.
Queer Endurance in Defiance spokesperson Wyatt Dawson said in a statement that the transgender community and its allies were worried that any changes will mean trans children lose access to hormone therapy that stalls unwanted physical changes.
The tiny, tiny, tiny number protesting for puberty blockers on demand alongside the tiny, tiny, tiny numbers attending the ill-named, ‘These Queers Bash Back’ protest in Auckland tells you the political tide has well and truly on the Trans Rights popularity in the wake of Trump’s earthquake political win which is devastating for the wider rainbow community and a more inclusive society.
Dear NZ – a kid transitioning isn’t your enemy – the Billionaires and Banks are!
I have been a lone voice on the Left in NZ highly critical of the tactics middle class woke identity politics activists, fourth wave feminists and their non-binary allies have used since 2016 to alienate and drive many into the arms of the reactionary right in their pursuit of ‘Trans Rights’.
I have argued the Trans Community and their kaleidoscope of grievance pursued insane Pure Temple politics at the cost of Broadchurch Class Solidarity for the narcissism of petty difference.
I argued the roulette wheel of intersectionist victimhood, Outrage Olympics and Social Media Lynch mobs might make us on the Left about as electorally attractive as a cup of cold sick and that the backlash will spark something dark.
No one listened to me.
Now we have an immense cultural backlash generated by the woke after they had their first taste of cultural power in 2016 and that backlash is insane with rage.
For the millionth time.
The idea that there are some women who believe they are men and some men who believe they are women and some people who believe they are neither and some who believe they are both is as uncontroversial to me as the range of eye, skin and hair colour in the human species.
As a matter of basic human curtesy we should always refer to a person by what ever pronoun and name they wish us to use and we should make it as easy as possible for people to legitimately be able to gain the paper work they need that states their gender and identity so they can go about the lives like everyone else.
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, ‘hold on’.
This is the number of puberty blockers used in New Zealand alone…
…in the wake of the Cass Review, I don’t think the weaponised certainty of the woke is helping any longer.
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 issue has never been anti-Trans, my issue is the radioactive manner in which the Trans activists and 4th wave cancel culture feminists went about alienating every voter.
I know many staunch Kiwi Feminists in NZ who feel deeply uncomfortable with the extremeness of some woke Fourth Wave feminists and who feel intimidated to express their true thoughts for fear of being torn to pieces online.
Remember how we on the Left had people sacked from their jobs during the social media lynchings of 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 for questioning Trans Dogma?
Isn’t it hilarious the first tiny bit of power our activists had they used to alienate almost everyone? Thank Christ they are all on Bluesky now which is the equivalent of screaming into a cushion that no one else can hear.
It is the woke middle class Identitarians who have generated the political backlash we saw in America and globally.
Here is how spastic the Trans debate became in America.
Trump consistently claimed Democrats would allow illegal aliens sex changes in prison, what’s the truth?
Yes the American Prison system allows those transitioning to access the medicines they require because that’s a health issue, but how many have actually accessed sex change operations?
2 FUCKING PRISONERS!
When challenged on this, Kamala Harris said “I will follow the law”, rather than explaining that there are only 2 examples of this and both were domestic prisoners, not ‘illegals’.
She didn’t point this out because the Dems were terrified of insulting the woke by mentioning the Trans debate in any way that didn’t worship them.
The Trans debate – thanks to the toxicity the Woke spent 8 years injecting into this issue, was manipulated by the Right to paint us as gender extremists FFS when only 2 prisoners have ever accessed it!
When you replace class and citizenship as our guiding values on the Left for identity politics, you make it impossible to get to the 51% democratic majority required to win power.
We want our Trans whanau to be able to enjoy the same agency that everyone is promised in a liberal progressive democracy, but the extremism of our woke middle class activists drove the debate off a cliff and now they are pissed off at the rest of us for not supporting them in driving off the cliff???
While I’ve been vocal against their woke alienation, I’ve ended up being one of the few still willing to stand with the Trans community against this Government threatening community funding for any amateur sports team having a Trans player because while I disagree with the Trans alienating tactics, I disagree much more with punishing community funding for their mere existence.
This whole debate needed to be far more rational and far less hating.
Unfortunately it’s Open Season for Hate.
The manner in which Trump has manipulated all of this culture war bitterness to eradicate Trans people from existence is dire and deeply fucking wrong.
We can have legitimate complaints about the way the middle class Woke went about alienating voters, but there is no way we can collectively agree with simply eradicating a class of people because people have been whipped up to hate them!
Trans people are people. I think in the hate of the debate we have lost that very simple truth.
Eradicating them in the way Trump has with the signing of his deplorable Presidential bully actions is ugly and an abomination of a Democracy locked into place by the tyranny of the bigoted majority.
First they came for the Trans people and I went out to punch Nazis because I know the rest of the poem.
Dear NZ – a kid transitioning isn’t your enemy – the Billionaires and Banks are!
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You’re right, ‘a kid transitioning is not your enemy’. The enemy is the irresponsible adult encouraging and enabling impressionable kids to castrate and mutilate themselves with irreversable proceedures. Read up the miserable plight of de-transitioners. Grown adults can do what they like but this fleeting fad is needlessly harming thousands of children.
And billionaires and banks are a fleeting fad Don? Are you happy with that?
The enemy is the school curriculum which teaches young children that they can choose their own gender, and that just because they have a penis it doesn’t mean that they’re a boy.
As the sibling of a trans person, I promise you from the bottom of my heart that gender affirming care for trans youth works!
The tripwire for most Kiwis is children, fairness in sport and the safety of women and girls and the preservation of their hard won spaces and rights.
Other than these, knock yourself out.
I can say things to banks and billionaires that I can’t say to Trans people. Now that’s power.
Bust just like trans the others ignore you.
What do you want to say so trans people?
Trans people are people. Well put Martyn. The arrogance and appalling insensitivity of some humans who consider themselves qualified to demonise them and make them feel “less than” is
ghastly yet common. It is part of a trend in a multitude of issues to dehumanize anyone who doesn’t sit with a particular cause de jour embraced by the haters.
Meanwhile the world is burning and NZ is going down the drain and becoming a haven for racists and ali hat type people who start this type of hate for the sake of diverting the attention of the weak from the real issues affecting the future of all children living in NZ .Why is this issue that affects a dozen kids more important than the poverty that 200k kids suffer every day .The result of that poverty ,as we all know ,is a future of crime drugs and abuse of all kinds starting with being labeled as bottom feeders by our PM WHO IS THE WORST TYPE OF BOTTOM DWELLER .