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Great piece. Nice clear style. Thanks for that. Sex education in schools was primarily to fill a gap left by secular and prim parents who felt unable to clearly educate their children about puberty. Its terrible to think this service to our youth has been captured by gender ideology. You're so right, many children will be in positions where they are unsafe and the language they need to describe this unsafe environment is being stripped from them in a way.

Later on in college the sex education offered takes a bizarre turn with kids talked to about fisting and choking as if these are run of the mill every day sexual practices. It's all gotten so dam weird.

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Wow how refreshing to read this from an NZ author. There's lots of similar stuff from overseas, but one myth that has yet to die here is that somehow Kiwis are physiologically/biologically/anyotherogically so different from anyone else that unless it's been done/trialed/tried here, well it may not "be applicable to the NZ setting". So things that are largely the same for populations (like say standard medical treatments for common ailments) can't be used here until someone official states that they are safe for us. I mean, maybe those puberty blockers that have been found to cause so much harm overseas really will be good for NZ kids. I mean who knows until we try, right?

And yes, I used to love Kim Hill. She was a real journalist who wasn't afraid to ask difficult questions and she always knew when someone was trying to fob her off. Sigh, but no longer. I guess she is just following our Dear Leader's path of "be kind" (selectively applied; you don't really want to include everyone).

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Thank you Robin, glad you liked it! I am, by the way, much more concerned by Max, who is actively pushing these dodgy policies, than Kim Hill, and I think Kim is almost always fantastic. As for the dear leader reference hmm...to me that feels like a right wing anti-women trope used from all directions to discredit a female PM.

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I agree with you about both Max and Kim Hill. I am definitely neither right wing or anti-woman, but I am appalled at the lack of investigative journalism here at this point in history. I think any PM who has betrayed women as much as our current one continues to do deserves to have some hard questions thrown at her and her TWAW ministers. By the time that Average Kiwi wakes up to some of the legislation that is on its way to being passed and how this will impact them and their families, it will be too late to ditch it.

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Thanks for clarifying Robin.

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I listened to that silly pompous young man on that silly older woman’s radio show, and did have to have a wry laugh when he said how “alarmist” we all were for thinking bad things about puberty blockers, and then when on to be all alarmist about what would happen to kids if they didn’t get them.

If we were all wearing Mao-style clothing - i.e. no lipstick, high heels and dresses - I wonder how many girls and boys, and older men, would then feel a compelling urge to be the opposite sex?

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Oh interesting! I don't think Kim Hill is silly at all. I think she's usually brilliant and won't stand for nonsense but got it wrong on this one. RNZ generally seem to give unchallenged space to gender ideology.

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No, I don’t think Kim Hill is silly in general either - I guess that wasn’t clear in my comment - but I think she’s being incongruently stupidly gullible in believing everything that transactivists say. She should be better than that, as she’s usually not backward in coming forward to blister anyone with hard questions, but she holds back with anything trans. It seems like she’s just believed all the mantras unquestioningly, as so many do.

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Exactly!

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