A B'Old Woman

 I chose not to be a parent, for no other reason than I simply didn’t seem ‘wired’ for children. However, I’m not completely disinterested in parents and children, and like some parents, I also have concerns about what children are being taught in New Zealand schools regarding gender-identity ideology, and age-inappropriate sex education. Those concerns saw me going along to the Let Kids be Kids presentation in Christchurch on their South Island roadshow. The event outlined what kids are being subjected to in the Ministry of Education’s Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) guidelines, and the transgender ideology targeted at kids by neo-rainbow organisations (i.e. those organisations primarily driven by transgender and queer ideology). Although I retained my own opinion about some things presented, I agreed that others were disturbing, and I could understand parents’ concerns. Naturally, the Let Kids be Kids roadshow got pushback. There’s always pushback when we want to talk

 The cost of a zebra pedestrian crossing can fluctuate wildly in New Zealand. An internet search has thrown up costs anywhere between $35K to hundreds of thousands of dollars. For this blog, I’m going to settle on a cost of $50K, on the understanding it may be more or less than that, depending on location and complexity. A pedestrian crossing is designated a “ priority crossing ”, according to NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) traffic legislation, where vehicle traffic is required to give way to pedestrians approaching or using the crossing. Also, “ a pedestrian crossing must be marked in reflectorised white, or if white does not contrast with the colour of the adjacent roadway then it must be resurfaced or marked to provide contrast ”. For as long as most of us can remember, a zebra pedestrian crossing has consisted of thick white horizontal stripes painted from one side of the road to the other. After we were taught about pedestrian crossings as youngsters, we expected them to be the same

 The second week in April 2024 was a big week in the fight against gender ideology. First , here in New Zealand, a petition was presented to Parliament requesting an investigation into the Midwifery Council’s barely comprehensible, woke-speak laden, revised Scope of Practice. It was quite a coup to have a petition of this nature picked up by a couple of politicians, after years of most of them either being actively hostile to anyone who dared question gender ideology, or shaking in their shoes at the thought of even going near anyone who questioned it. Second , in an Australian court case referred to as Tickle v Giggle , Sall Grover, founder of an app called Giggle – “ designed to help girls and women connect to make it easy to find friends or flat mates, travel companions or to swap stories about pregnancy, fashion or makeup ” – was taken to court by a man who calls himself Roxanne Tickle and says he’s a woman. Mr Tickle was denied access to the app because he’s a man. He strenuously

 When Kellie-Jay Keen came to New Zealand, our mainstream media lost their shite. Or, more precisely, they lost their shite for the whole week preceding her visit. I’ve been in this world for a while, and I don’t think I have ever seen our mainstream media give just one lone woman visitor that much relentless interest before, much of it negative and hostile, in just one week. If I’m wrong, I’m happy to be shown. A person, who prefers not to be named, did a week’s tally of news items that had ‘Posie Parker’ in them, which is mostly how our media refers to Kellie-Jay Keen. A staggering 158 were collected for the seven days leading up to 27 March 2023 - and that’s probably still not everything. The violence against Kellie-Jay Keen, and other women (and men) at the Let Women Speak rally in Auckland on 25 March 2023, by trans activists was without a single shred of doubt aided and abetted by a week of our mainstream media stoking up antagonism against her. Creating a situation where she fe

  Six days have passed since Sport New Zealand took a massive dump on women’s sports. The stench still lingers. During that time many scathing articles¹ and commentaries have been written about Sport NZ’s recently released  transgender participation guidelines . These guidelines basically say that any man at any time can self-identify as a woman and play in women’s sports, no questions asked. In fact, a bloke can rock on up to a sports club, identify as a woman, play in women’s sports, and then go back being a bloke afterwards. If he’s asked questions like “hey dude, aren’t you a dude?”, expect trouble. Lots of trouble – like accusations of wrongful discrimination. Sporting bodies in NZ, which rely on Sport NZ for at least some funding, know a threat to that funding when they see one. These guidelines, promoted under the guise for community sports only, and (technically) not compulsory, are an iron fist in a velvet glove. With a hammer in the other fist. Sport Minister, Grant Robertson

 It was a windy day in Wellington on Tuesday 9 th April 2024. So far, so normal. It was also the day a group of terfs¹ got together to support midwife Deb Hayes’s presentation of her petition against the NZ Midwifery Council’s revised Scope of Practice to National MP James Meager on the steps of Parliament. And that wasn’t quite so normal. In fact, it was very unique. No other Member of Parliament has dared to ‘out’ themselves so brazenly as to have their photo taken with a group of terfs. I daresay the very idea shakes them to their core. If only we could harness that power we apparently have to strike fear into hearts, and redirect it at will. Not only did James brave the possibility of angry TQ+ hordes sending him “you’re genociding us” emails, but he was joined on the steps by NZ First list MP Tanya Unkovich . Two MPs with something more in their hearts than fear in today’s climate of tiptoeing around all things ‘trans’ is not a common occurrence. If it lasts – and long may it do

 Josie worked for the New Zealand Dept of Corrections   from 2008 to 2021. The first ten years of that time were spent working in the Auckland women’s jail, and the remainder in the men’s jail. Whilst working in the women’s jail, known officially as Auckland Region Women’s Correction Facility , she experienced the first transfer of a fully intact male who said he was a woman from the men’s jail to the women’s. In most cases, a man who says he’s a woman is a transvestite and/or autogynephile. In other parlance, he can also be referred to as a ‘trans-identifying-male’ – a TIM - and in this piece will be referred to as such, simply for brevity. This is Josie’s story of how it was for her to deal with those fully intact TIMs who came in during the time she worked at Auckland women’s jail. In 2012, the first such TIM was first transferred from the men’s jail to the women’s in Auckland. He was in jail for the murder of an elderly woman . He was a habitual offender in other ways, too, and u