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New Zealand Human Rights Commission - Ia Tangata response

Adding ‘transgender’ and ‘nonbinary’ to Human Rights Act not a priority, Government says.

Well, well - the Government has responded to the Law Commission’s ‘Ia Tangata’ report, saying it is not a priority at this time. This is the report that recommended adding

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Jill Ovens On The Peaceful Protest Outside Western Springs College

Jill Ovens, Secretary of the Women’s Rights Party talks about the peaceful protest outside Western Springs College in Auckland.

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New Zealand - women's privacy and dignity at work

Men should be banned from using women’s changing rooms at work

The Women’s Rights Party is calling on the Coalition Government to ban public sector policies that allow males identifying as women to access women employees’ changing facilities. On Friday a

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New Zealand census data integrity, sex and gender

Proposed data collection approach and content for the census

Tēnā koutou The Women’s Rights Party of New Zealand Aotearoa was formed in 2023 to focus on issues that directly impact on women and girls. We recognise that such interests

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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.

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New Zealand bans puberty blockers

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.

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Jevon McSkimmings - New Zealand Police still don't take women's safety seriously

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

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Janice 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”

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