A B'Old Woman

 Those who have been fortunate enough to visit Queenstown in New Zealand know that it’s a pretty special spot. As in, stunning-special. It’s amongst the ‘must see’ destinations for South Island tourists. Queenstown itself has an urban population of 29,000, with 53,000 in the greater Queenstown-Lakes District region. I expect the permanent residents are a mixture of ages, but in the central area of Queenstown there is a noticeably large presence of young people, made up of residents, visitors, and workers. Queenstown airport is a tricky one to get into, by all accounts, but obviously worth navigating the surrounding valleys and peaks for. Airport personnel are friendly – although the airport’s social media manager gets a bit prickly if questioned about whether they have single-sex toilet facilities, and if so, are they really single-sex. It’s a serious matter if any venue puts the control of women’s and girls’ spaces into the hands of men by allowing free and unfettered entry into...

 The trouble with young people today is that they’re the same as they’ve always been. In other words, there’s no new ‘trouble’ with young people today - but there is with the grownups. I came across this recent article about Scottish politics ¹, which amongst other things, mentions the increasing number of young people in its ranks. It’s a similar phenomenon happening here in New Zealand, too. In the article, ex-First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, is quoted as stating that politics is “ too full of young people who have just come through the political ranks ” . The deliciously scathing writer of the above article, Jim Spence, excoriates her “hypocrisy” with: “ As first minister, she appointed a cabal of youthful, incompetent and incoherent ninnies with levels of life experience which wouldn’t trouble the back of a fag packet. ” I don’t think I’d be wrong in saying that a sizeable contingent of us in NZ would agree we could transplant his sentiments into our politics and pu...

 All was quiet at Tākina when the taxi dropped me off there from the airport. That wasn’t to last, of course. Tākina is the flash new council-owned events centre in central Wellington, where a newly-formed group called ‘ Inflection Point’ had fortuitously managed to score a room for their event called UNSILENCED . This event, on Saturday 18 th May, brought people together from all walks of life, both to speak against gender ideology in New Zealand and to hear what those speakers had to say. It was a crowd with a wide range of differing views and opinions, and I was happy to be amongst it. On the matter of gender ideology, though, we were in agreement that for the sake of women’s and children’s rights and safety, and societal and cultural wellbeing, it has to be halted. The importance of this requires all hands on deck. Upon my early-ish arrival, quiet though it was, there were small signs that this was perhaps no ordinary event. Security inside was amped up, and across the road ...

 If you live in New Zealand, do get along to Wellington this Saturday 18 th May, if you can, for an event called UNSILENCED . If you live in Iceland, you may just make it if you jump on an aeroplane now 😊 UNSILENCED is being brought to us by a newly-formed group in NZ called ‘ Inflection Point ’ (X: @InflectPointNZ). An inflection point is when something changes suddenly, or in an important way. The feeling in the air is that an inflection point has been reached around gender ideology, with the increasing chokehold it enjoyed over the last 10 - 15 years on society, business, and government starting to be loosened. The Cass Review is seen as being significant in this inflection point, but make no mistake, there has been much hard and arduous work around the globe done by many to reach it. There are also those who’ve lost more to the merciless edicts of gender ideology along the way than we’ll ever know. The group Inflection Point decided the time was right to have a summit in NZ...

 A new fighting unit for women sports has been formed called the ‘ International Consortium on Female Sports’ (ICFS). The consortium will spearhead the protection of women’s sports, which are currently experiencing encroachment and intrusion by men who call themselves women, but are biologically male. These men are being supported by many sporting bodies, instead of the sporting bodies supporting women. So, once again women are having to assemble, this time to protect those rights for which they fought long and hard. Save Women’s Sports Australasia (i.e. Australia and New Zealand)¹ announced on 9th January 2023 that they are proud to be founding members of this consortium. Speak Up for Women NZ is an affiliate member. It took women many long years and many hard battles to get sports of their own. It’s taken trans-identifying males (TIMs) about ten minutes to get permission to invade women’s sports if they can tick a few boxes which ostensibly make them exactly like women. The p...

 Yesterday, I caused a minor X storm. On the grand scale of X storms – a phrase which, it must be said, simply doesn’t carry the same sensation as what was once known as a ‘ Twitter storm’  - my small account barely created a breeze. However, a few dervishes did do the odd whirl. I’d spotted a picture of billboard from the Ovarian Cancer Foundation NZ, posted on a different social media platform, which nearly got my eyeballs rolling right out of my head at it featuring a ‘transman’. So, I took it to X. However, I was mistaken. The picture is not of a young woman who says she’s a man, but is actually of a young man. Knowing how our health organisations now say that ‘men’ can have female illnesses and conditions, though, it seemed entirely plausible that the Ovarian Cancer Foundation was on board with this nonsense, too. But, at first sight of the words and picture combination on this billboard, I thought I was looking at a woman who identifies a man. Neither did the small prin...