Gendering, gendering, gendering on
One week in the gender swamps, mid-May, Aotearoa New Zealand 19/05/23
May 11: National Library adopts subject headings that deny the biological reality of women
National Library blogged that they have adopted Homosaurus, an international LGBTQ+ Linked data vocabulary to use in special collections. Note this is not for all collections but still. Subject headings are the way in which material is catalogued or tagged with key words. While the blog suggests universal approval from the LGBTQ+ community, Homosaurus, in fact, presents an ideological set of definitions that are deep in denial about biological reality and exclusive same sex attraction1. Women and Lesbians are both defined as those who self-identify into those categories. Many women and lesbians are reporting they find such definitions dehumanising, misogynistic and homophobic. So deep runs the trench between Homosaurus and practically everyone in the world, the broader term for women (that is, the term that women is considered a subset of, is listed as gender identity, rather than say human or adults or female persons. According to Homosaurus, women is no longer a human but an idea.
The definition for women:
The definition for lesbians:
May 11: Invercargill doesn’t get the memo
Clearly Wellington bureaucrats failed to distribute to the deep South the remit that men can turn into women by uttering magic words and putting on some lippy. 100 people turned up to a meeting in Invercargill with Council staff to discuss concerns for women and children that predatory males (when claiming they are women) could enter female changing rooms at public swimming pool Splash Palace. It appears Council staff falsely believe that the Human Rights Act says maintaining single sex spaces (based on biological sex) is discriminatory. In fact, both the Human Rights Act and the new and the new laws allowing sex self-identification on birth certificates coming into force later in the year, allow for service providers to make their own decisions around single sex spaces and services.
May 12: Launch of Women’s Rights Party
The Women’s Rights Party—a New Zealand political party—is seeking 500 members over the next few weeks so they can stand in October’s general election. Their website reads “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 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.”
May 15: Revelation that MoH was warned their promotion of puberty blockers might be illegal
Gender Clinic News reported on various exchanges between the Ministry of Health and other parties on puberty blockers. Most strikingly emails released under an Official Information Act request made by Simon Tegg of Fully Informed show MedSafe, the government’s own regulator, warned the Ministry of Health about the promotion of puberty blockers ““If the ministry advocated that certain medicines be used off-label, this could come in for criticism as a potential breach of the [Medicines Act 1981]”. For context, puberty blockers are approved for the treatment of precocious puberty (where very young children start experiencing puberty), they are not approved, and are therefore “off-label” for the treatment of gender dysphoria.
Simon Tegg of Fully Informed, a group that works to inform New Zealanders about growing international concerns about puberty blockers, calmly, point-by-point dismantles John Palethorpe’s rebuttal to Jan Rivers’ puberty blockers article in the New Zealand Herald2. Tegg’s article also provides some rich contextual information about what the hell is going on with regards to New Zealand and puberty blockers.
May 17: Oral submissions on the Education and Training Amendment Bill (No 3)
The Education and Workforce Committee heard oral submissions on the Bill that promotes updating “the criteria for co-opting and appointing board members to reflect today’s school communities, by adding the genders, sexualities and sexes of the school’s students and of the school community…”. Suzanne Levy of Speak Up for Women had particularly interesting things to say about the bill.
May 17: Oral submissions on the Sport Integrity Bill
The Social Services and Community Committee heard oral submissions on the bill that reckoned all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons should be consulted about fairness and integrity in sports but not women.
Also it must be said, for a national public funded institution, Homosaurus has a weirdly detailed and extensive list of headings for sexual activities, pronouns (obviously) and fetishes.
The NZ Herald, did by the way, reject a complaint made about the original article.
Lesbians "belong to lesbian communities"! Yes, seldom in contact with other human-identifying life-forms, the Lesbian typically avoids all except other lesbians and lesbian-identifying men. Such is their eagerness for girl-dick they often come to blows and refusal to share lipstick.
See: I've done my research. Where would we be without the National Library?