Resources
Sane reading and resources
International
UK Supreme Court Judgment—ruled that in UK law sex is biological
Sullivan Review—looked into UK’s sex and gender data collection (not good)
Position paper on the definition of “woman” in international human rights treaties—from UN Special Rapporteur Reem Alsalem saying women in CEDAW means women
Cass Review—huge UK review into treating gender dysphoria in young people
Gender: a wider lens—amazing psychology-based podcast (now an archive)
Helen Joyce—author of Trans: when ideology meets reality
Michael Biggs—University of Oxford professor’s writing on sex & gender
Sex Matters—UK charity that reckons it does
Stats for Gender—reliable factual data on gender-related things
Genspect—championing a healthy approach to sex and gender
Gender Clinic News—global updates on youth gender transition
Article on the importance of sexed language— from Frontiers in Women’s Health.
New Zealand
Fully informed—informs New Zealanders about puberty blocker concerns
Jan Rivers—writing on gender ideology and institutional capture
LAVA—Lesbian Action for Visibility in Aotearoa
LGB Alliance Aotearoa—works against LGB discrimination and disadvantage
Resist Gender Education—challenges gender identity ideology in schools
Save Women’s Sports Australasia—works to keep sports single sex
Speak Up For Women—gets grief for its audacious claim that women exist
Women’s Rights Party—NZ political party formed in the wake of Albert Park
Key New Zealand research and articles
Where do we go now with puberty blockers?
Charlotte Paul, NZ Herald, 7 January 2025.
Impact of Puberty Blockers in Gender-Dysphoric Adolescents: An evidence brief.
Ministry of Health, 21 November 2024.
Use of puberty-blocking hormones for gender dysphoria in New Zealand: descriptive analysis and international comparisons.
Charlotte Paul, Simon Tegg and Sarah Donovan, New Zealand Medical Journal, Vol. 137 No. 1603 | 27 September, 2024.
A terrible trap.
Charlotte Paul, North & South, 24 December 2023.
Parents of gender-questioning children in NZ being let down.
Sarah Donovan, Newsroom, 17 August 2022.
Sex, Gender and Women's Rights.
Jan Rivers and Jill Abigail, Policy Quarterly Vol 17 No. 4 (2021).
What they do in the shadows: The rapid implementation of gender ideology in the New Zealand public sector.
Jan Rivers and Jill Abigail, Public Good, 28 August 2021.
NZ bonkerism
A running tally of key documents.
Ia Tangata: A review of the protections in the Human Rights Act 1993 for people who are transgender, people who are non-binary and people with innate variations of sex characteristics | NZ Law Commission, 4 Sept 2025
Summary: Recommends two new protected grounds for gender identity and DSD status. Near blanket removal of exceptions for single-sex spaces. Says sex shouldn’t be defined, and gives a circular definition of gender identity which includes the term gender identity.
Status: Active, published September 2025 and referred to government.
Guiding principles to support the inclusion of transgender people in community sports | Sports NZ | December 2022
Summary: trans people must be allowed on teams, in changing rooms and bunk rooms according to the gender they identify with. People who complain should be re-educated.
Status: Removed in July 2025 on instruction of the government who has said Sport NZ should not be involved in publishing guidelines relating to gender in sport.
Data Standard for gender, sex and variations of sex characteristics | Stats NZ | April 2021
Summary: Distinguishes between sex and gender, says gender is a person’s internal sense of their gender, and that humans can change sex during their life time. Promotes the gender by default approach used in the 2023 NZ census.
Status: Active
My analysis
Guidelines for Gender Affirming Healthcare (2018 - New Zealand) | Oliphant et al
Summary: Endorsed by PATHA, supports and extends the WPATH Standards of Care. Roundly debunked as suitable for practice in University of York systematic review.
Status: Active. PATHA has updated the guidelines but the government has decided not to release them until making a decision about puberty blockers.
My analysis