The NZ First bigotry of pulling public funding for Trans sports players vs insufferable woke dogma

Behind the scenes of the battle over transgender inclusion in community sports

• In October, Sports Minister Chris Bishop ordered Sport NZ to rewrite its principles on transgender inclusion in community sports.
• This followed his apparent backdown in June on the National-NZ First coalition commitment to cut funding for sporting bodies that have gender rules compromising fairness.
• In between, Bishop heard blowback from NZ First leader Winston Peters, former Olympians in an open letter, and dozens of National Party supporters threatening to vote elsewhere.

The What is a woman? petition was received by Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of NZ First Winston Peters and their NZ First Trans Troll MP Tanya Unkovich.

The manner in which 4th wave feminist and non-binary allies have made the entire trans debate more radioactive than Chernobyl will forever be held up as what not to do when attempting to build a movement.

There is no doubt that the Trans movement at the height of the woke cancel culture purges of 2016  went way too far with their alienation super powers and the fiasco of beating Possie Parker from the stage while screaming victim over at the SpinOff didn’t help…

…but the reality in a liberal progressive democracy is that every individual is promised freedom and agency and the Trans whanau (despite their radioactivity and jaw dropping ability to poison all good will) deserve the same agency we all are which means they need access to Identification and rights that do need negotiating with Gender Critical Feminists.

The debate needs good faith and that’s the last thing NZ First are bringing.

NZ First are bringing lies, smears and falsehoods to the debate.

Winston was utterly wrong again here…

…and NZ First are wrong to threaten community funding if a Trans players is part of the team!

Unfortunately NZ First lying  and spreading falsehoods doesn’t matter because the entire debate has collapsed into a toxic dumpster fire that no one wants to touch now.

At some stage the middle class woke activists of Wellington need to take a very long hard look at the manner in which their Trans debate, a debate that impacts less than 1% of people, has managed to become a culture war that the Left can not win.

The middle class woke built this trans culture war and the rest of us are having to suffer it while NZ First exploit it.

Take puberty blockers.

Puberty blockers to be prescribed more cautiously in New Zealand after review

Doctors will be told to show caution in prescribing puberty blockers in New Zealand after a review found strong evidence for their effectiveness and safety was lacking.

The Ministry of Health today released its long-awaited evidence brief and a position statement on puberty-stalling hormones.

“The evidence brief found that the evidence supporting the effectiveness and safety was limited and of poor quality,” the ministry said.

As a result of the findings, the ministry is outlining an expectation that greater caution is used in prescribing the medication. Further safeguards may be introduced after consultation with interested parties.

Other countries have also taken steps to restrict puberty blockers out of concern about a lack of robust evidence and rising prescribing rates.

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 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.

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’.

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 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.

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?

Only 2 prisoners!

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. Could the woke please go back to sleep?

We get it wokies, your manufactured identity is far more important than the common ground between us.

Meanwhile, the Planet is melting, global war looms and the economy is tanking. If we could just get back to those issues please?

 

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