A just society will maintain the rights that women have fought for.
We are women and men who believe in democracy, equality and biological reality. Clarity about sex is critical for safeguarding the human rights of everybody.
The Party honours the women of Aotearoa NZ, who won the right to vote in 1893, the first self-governing nation in the World to legislate women’s suffrage.
The Women’s Rights Party has formed 130 years later out of a concern for the erosion of the rights of women and girls.
We combine this history with the imperative to create a society in which women are autonomous, and all women, men and children can live in harmony with each other to protect the future for our children and their children.
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Ministry needs to correct disinformation about puberty blockers ban
Last week, after delays of more than a year, the Government announced there will be no new prescribing of puberty blockers as of 19 December pending further UK clinical trials. The response from advocates of puberty blockers as part of “gender-affirming care” has been full of alarmist disinformation. Gender medicine specialists have warned of an
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Action on puberty blockers welcome, but why did it take so long?
A year ago the Ministry of Health announced it was considering additional safety measures and further restriction of puberty blockers (GnRH) to treat conditions related to “gender distress” in children. This, in the wake findings of the damning final UK Cass Report, released in April 2024 after four years of study, which found young people
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Top cop frames his victim as the villain and we wonder why women don’t trust the Police
A woman who complained about sexual abuse by former Police Deputy Commissioner Jevon McSkimming, was herself charged in May 2024 under the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015 at the instigation of her alleged sexual abuser. Women have reacted with shock and dismay, Women’s Rights Party Co-leader Jill Ovens says. “It’s just the same old ‘blame
read moreJanice Raymond’s Prophetic Classic
Lierre Keith and Marian Rutigliano, discuss the book written by Janice Raymond in 1979, based on her 1977 PhD dissertation, and later updated in 1994. The book “The Transsexual Empire” shows that some women were onto the “transgenderism” phenomenon well before it became a social issue in the 21st Century. Lierre Keith, executive director of
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Jill Ovens talks to RCR about NZ Human Rights Commission proposed law change
The Commission is recommending changes to most of the 19 existing exceptions in the Human Rights Act that currently allow people to be treated differently based on their sex, such as sports, changing facilities and toilets, or shared accommodation. For background context, see our press release about the NZ Human Rights Commission proposals.
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