How much exactly do our politicians, councillors, and Law Commission cosy up to neo-rainbow lobby groups in New Zealand?

 We continue to live in interesting times. Gender ideology has changed our world. It has been a contributing factor in destabilising Western society in ways most of us never saw coming. We’re told that if we just accept everything it demands of us – e.g. believe that men can be women just upon their say-so – everything will be wonderful. If we don’t accept that, the problem is with us, we’re told, not with the ideology.

The reality is that gender ideology has wrought division, delusion, and deception in society, politics, and the workplace. Its tentacles weave their way into our lives, often via subterfuge, which is its preferred modus operandi. Sometimes, though, we get hit in the face with exactly how much our politicians and councillors are cosying up to neo-rainbow lobby groups who want gender ideology entrenched to serve their agenda.

Duncan Webb, Labour MP for Christchurch Central, posts a photo of himself and Reuben Davidson, the new Labour MP for Christchurch Central, on his Facebook page, and says how it’s “always good to catch up with Jen from Qtopia”. Note the word ‘always’. He follows it up with the usual mixture of love-talk about “our trans whanau [family]” who seemingly walk on water, and loathe-talk about nasty people who don’t believe that men can be women, and vice versa. The tiny fact that men who say they’re women are men, and shouldn’t be allowed in women’s and girls’ spaces and sports, is neither here nor there for Duncan and Reuben.

Qtopia is Christchurch’s neo-rainbow lobby group, and ‘Jen’, the head honcho, is a man who says he’s a woman. I doubt that Duncan, as a heterosexual man, would consider ‘Jen’ a woman if he was single and in the dating game, but it’s okay to play the game of believing that any man who says he’s a woman is one. After all, Duncan can stop playing any time he wants, and just walk away.

In the meantime, while there’s status to be had from progressive posturing, he and his buddy Reuben have no qualms in showing off what a cosy little cabal they’ve formed with ‘Jen’ and his crew. I daresay that Duncan has been in cahoots with Qtopia for some time, and has now brought newbie MP, Reuben, into it.

It would be a fair guess that a good number of our city councillors and Council staff would be on hugging and kissing terms with Qtopia, too. The three councillors in particular who were responsible for making sure that the word ‘sex’ stayed out of the new Equity and Inclusion Policy – Sara Templeton, Tyla Harrison-Hunt, and Celeste Donovan – plus the (fresh from?) university gender ideology-indoctrinated graduate who formulated the policy content, probably had many a convivial cuppa with ‘Jen’ and his cronies, whilst taking diligent notes from them on exactly what was wanted in the new policy. What they would have wanted, of course, was for the word ‘sex’ to stay out of it, and only ‘gender’ to be in it. The word ‘gender’ is wonderfully undefinable, and gives a licence to any man who says he’s a woman to adopt a ‘woman’ gender identity at any time and place, and go into female spaces. The word ‘sex’ was a potential danger to that liberty, even if the word ‘gender’ stayed in the policy as well.

Now, the New Zealand Law Commission has been asked by Te Pati Māori (Māori Party) MP Debbie Ngarewa-Packer to review the feasibility of putting the words ‘gender’ and ‘gender identity’ into the Human Rights Act against discrimination. Needless to say, there didn’t appear to be anyone amongst the ‘experts’ the Law Commission asked to advise them on this who might have disagreed with it. Apart from it being beyond belief how ideological and undefinable concepts like gender and gender-identity can even be considered for legislation, woke-speak has also been inserted throughout the 211-page review document. I’m going to take a punt that the content has been put together by university contemporaries of the young woman who formulated the Christchurch City Council’s Equity and Inclusion Policy.

So far, I’ve only had a quick scan of the document, but from what I’ve seen I concur with others that it’s a shocker. I’ll be making a submission on it in due course. Public submissions on the Law Commission’s review¹ are open until 6^th September 2024. I hope to discuss this more on my YouTube channel with someone soon, to give more clarity about its flaws.

I can’t finish off on this particular topic, though, without mentioning that the MP who originally started all this nonsense about wanting to put gender and gender identity into legislation was Dr Elizabeth Kerekere of the Green Party. However, she resigned from the party under a cloud in May 2023, so Debbie Ngawera-Packer took it up on her behalf. Bizarrely, Dr Elizabeth Kerekere mentions in her own thesis on page 82 (in the first paragraph on that page) that “There is not yet evidence that Māori had diverse gender identities …”. Notwithstanding her own research, she now claims that pre-colonial Māori did have diverse gender identities, and wants those mythical gender identities protected in law.

So, gender ideology continues to be a cluster f*ck here in New Zealand, and transmaidens and transbros in our Government and Councils remain determined to take us on a one-way sailing to transland. Strangely, many of them still don’t seem to realise there’s a strong prospect of mutiny.

Small bits of good news emerge here and there, though. One of those is from the Christian organisation Family First, who posted on their Facebook page that there was a reduction in the number of schools participating in Pride Week this year –

Now, we just need universities to drop their gender-ideology indoctrination of students and teach them stuff that works in the material world, as opposed to stuff that just sounds good in their heads. I don’t know how their woke-up-the-wazoo lecturers would cope with teaching real-world stuff, but a safe space or two for them, with some security blankets thrown in, might help soothe the trauma.

Those of us who oppose gender ideology also need to start making the effort to meet up in person again, like people used to do. The internet is wonderful, but real progress and change is made in the real world when we get together face to face. It’s always been that way. I know it can be difficult at times to accommodate different personalities, and it requires some stoicism, but the saying “the world is run by those who show up” – a broad concept - is perhaps worth keeping in mind.

¹NZLC-IP53.pdf (lawcom.govt.nz)