Speak Up For Women
@SpeakUp4WomenNZ
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A non-partisan organisation that exists to protect and advance the sex based rights of women and girls in New Zealand.
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We have had lots of new followers in the past few months - this article from May outlines where we stand on a few things…
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Hey
@SparkNZ
is this for real? 51% of your client base are female and here you are throwing them under the bus and siding with a nasty little man.
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Our Billboard has been pulled down. We believe Go Media have breached our contract by caving to bullies. Here is our statement.
#nzpol
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SUFW acknowledge Matt Walsh is a conservative Catholic, we do not endorse his socially conservative views on abortion or the role of women. However this documentary, "What is a Woman?", does an excellent job of exposing the illogical nature of gender ideology. The interviews with
It’s the movie they really don’t want you to see:
#WhatIsAWoman
?
Watch the explosive documentary starring
@MattWalshBlog
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Dear
@rnz_news
Don’t uncritically introduce controversial queer theory language into your state funded reporting. Feminists find the concept of ‘cis’ offensive: Women are women because they are adult human females (a sex), not because they ‘identify’ with an oppressive gender.
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Speak Up for Women statement regarding the granting of diversion for Albert Park assailant.
New Zealand has a shameful record of family and sexual violence. A main driver of this is that male violence is excused and minimised. This Court decision to grant diversion to the man
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On May 5th 2023 we were asked by
@NZStuff
to respond to some general questions about our organisation and our views.
Rather than give Stuff the information exclusively, with it destined to never see the light of day, we thought we would answer the questions but share them with
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There will be one less woman at St Patrick’s Square on Wednesday - but the women of Aotearoa New Zealand will not be silenced and after all, this event is for them.
We wish our sisters at Standing for Women NZ
@Local_SFW_NZ
all the best for a safe and successful event.
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Our mentions have blown up by a bunch of well meaning, vitrual signalling women claiming to be feminists who accept the label cis. Let us be clear: cis is yet another label imposed on women to define us in relation to men. We don’t need it and it is sexist
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The Advertising Standards Authority Complaints Board has not upheld complaints about our billboard, which was installed in Wellington last month and bore the dictionary definition: “Woman wƱmən - noun - adult human female”
#nzpol
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MEDIA RELEASE: JUNE 8TH 2023
Majority of New Zealanders do not support Sex Self-ID
A poll of New Zealand voters undertaken by Curia Market Research on behalf of Speak Up For Women (SUFW), shows that sex denialism (gender identity ideology) is a minority view in Aotearoa New
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This is a from Hutt Valley High School - a large co-ed school in Lower Hutt (dangerously close to Wellington).
It is disturbing on many levels - but perhaps the most worrying is the association of the normal uniform (which is black, grey and white) with the "straight or cisgender
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The Births, Deaths and Marriages bill (sex self-ID) passed unanimously in the House today. Our goal has always been the protection of women’s rights in law. Although this new law represents an erosion to those rights, we’re glad that our advocacy led to the inclusion of clause 80
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everyone knows which sex class can get pregnant and the associated issues and discrimination. The female experience cannot be legislated out of existence. This law simply means New Zealand is losing protections for women and children, data and opportunities to redress inequality.
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which allows that - regardless of what is stated on a BC - service providers can still offer single sex spaces and services on the basis of biological sex. Regardless of what parliament decides to record on birth certificates, biological sex will go on exisiting and mattering;
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But it didn't work, nearly two hours later and women are STILL speaking! Turns out they have a lot to say.
Well done
@Local_SFW_NZ
Drowning out. Silencing. Cancelling. Since when was this a constructive, meaningful way to have your say, to reason and persuade? If you want to have your say and be heard, use your words. Listen. Counter. But simply being noisy doesn’t persuade anyone.
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Chris Hipkins says that women’s single-sex spaces are not being raised with him, this is an absolute lie.
SUFW have communicated with him several times in the last few months, including sending him a heads up on these poll results on sex self-ID ( ) and a
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Huge news! Congratulations to all our brave supports who have withstood a barrage of abuse to call for fair and reasonable public dialogue on this issue.
#SpeakUpNZ
#nosexselfid
#nzpol
Tonight:
@TraceyMartinMP
has just announced she's deferring a bill that would make it easier to change gender on birth certificates.. "there has been inadequate public consultation" and bill would benefit from legal clarification around complex cases. She's on Q+A tonight 9:25
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..and did not reach the threshold to cause harm, or serious or widespread offence, did not cause fear or distress without justification, and was not misleading.
So, expect to see more of this advertising in our upcoming campaign against sex self-ID!
#sexmatters
#BDMRR
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@ChiefSciAdvisor
@SiouxsieW
@whaeapower
Intersex is a disorder of sexual development, it isn’t a third sex. Are you claiming sex is a spectrum?
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Jan Tinnetti in the House talking about “menstruating students” who use period products. Periods are sex based and occur only to girls and women. Disheartening to see that the so-called Minister for Women continues to be unable to acknowledge sex based biology and reality.
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Great meeting today in Dunedin, around 60 people attended. A couple of young trans people were present and told us following the talk "I was scared to come in but this actually makes sense" and "I understand what you are talking about".
#nzpol
#sexmatters
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We’re pleased to see that the Government intends to amend the BDMRR Bill to make it clear that gender indenty does not supersede sex.
#nzpol
#bdmrr
#sexmatters
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And while we’re chatting, don’t you think your readers deserve to know that the ‘researcher’ you’re quoting is not a scientist, so unqualified to comment on physiological sporting advantage, but is a transman. A potential bias worth mentioning, no?
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This is a sad state of affairs indeed. Of course
@chrishipkins
knows what a women is. He also knows he is not allowed to say it. The NZ public would have so much more respect for him if he did. For those at the back - a woman is an adult human female.
How does the
@nzlabour
govt define a woman
@chrishipkins
?
"To be honest this question has come slightly out of left field for me"
"People define their own genders"
"I wasn't expecting this question so it's not something I have formulated an answer on"
@theplatform_nz
#nzpol
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Andrew Sullivan
@sullydish
on the Forstater case: “This shift from a “live and let live” to a “do what I say or else” movement is one reason I don’t identify with this activism any more. “
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MEDIA RELEASE: Ministry of Transport staff told "Don't use male or penis" when referring to male lesbians.
A former staffer at the Ministry of Transport is blowing the whistle after being reprimanded for asking science-based questions at a rainbow training session.
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Lorraine Moller MBE, 4x Olympian, Boston & Osaka Marathon Winner & Forerunner for Equality in Women’s Athletics is speaking out in support of our mission to preserve biology-based eligibility standards for participation in female sports.
#savewomenssport
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A historic moment for women in NZ: Abortion has just been legalised. And the Bill retains the word ‘woman’, despite ill conceived attempts to replace it with ‘pregnant person’.
#nzpol
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We’ve just filed High Court proceedings against
@aucklandcouncil
and
@PNCityCouncil
, following the cancellation of room bookings for our public events that were to go ahead later this week. Nicolette Levy QC will be acting on our behalf, with the support of
@NZFreeSpeech
.
#NZpol
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Meghan Murphy - I have not said that trans women are not real women. I don’t use the expression “real women”. People are either women or they’re not, it’s really quite simple.
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Speak Up for Women welcome and wholeheartedly support this statement:
@NZStuff
@nzherald
@NewshubNZ
@radionz
@SaturdayRNZ
"I am disturbed by the frequent tactic of smear campaigns against women, girls and their allies on the basis of their beliefs on non-discrimination based on
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A Highlight: “There is sufficient evidence before me at this stage to be clear that SUFW cannot rationally be described as a “hate group”
#nzpol
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The Authority received complaints that the advertisement was ‘transphobic hate speech’ which could cause undue harm or offence to the transgender community. However, the majority of the Board said in the context of advocacy advertising the advertisement was socially responsible..
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It is astonishing that New Zealand media continues to silence groups that are advocating for the protection of girls and women’s rights. SUFW has endured this kind of silencing for many years.
It is time for legacy media to stop silencing people and groups that question gender
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Solidarity to our sisters across the Tasman as they fight sex self-identification laws just like we are.
“Women are fighting this all over the world. It’s time we were listened to. Fighting for women’s rights is NOT transphobic, it’s feminist.”
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“On what basis do women’s rights exist, if the word ‘woman’ is meaningless?” Meghan Murphy said, at the Toronto Public Library last night. Don’t miss hearing her speak in Auckland on the 18 Nov!
#nzpol
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No, a woman is any personality in a female body, not a female personality in any body. Gender is sex role stereotypes. Defining women by their conformance to stereotypes is regressive. Women are women, transwomen are transwomen. Let’s talk about solutions.
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In 1893 women got the vote. They did this by exercising their free speech rights.
In 2023 women want to retain single sex spaces, services and opportunities and to use our free speech rights to assert sex based rights.
Sex mattered to Kate Sheppard and it matters to us.
Happy
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Say 'No' to sex self-ID today. We've made it easy with a submission builder on our website. Or simply write on your submission "I oppose the sex-self identification clauses and support the submission from Speak Up For Women."
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@serenity22
@rnz_news
Feminism is about liberating the female sex from oppression. Gender is a tool of that oppression. It is not about ‘all’. And if you can decide what you’re called, then please likewise accept that we reject the label ‘cis’
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@rrtooster
@rnz_news
Speaking up for the liberation of females as a sex class is not ‘nasty’, it’s feminism.
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Today, Justice Gerald Nation granted us interim relief against
@PNCityCouncil
meaning our meeting to discuss the controversial sex self-identification clauses within the BDMRR Bill will go ahead tonight in the Palmerston North Central Library at 6:30pm as planned.
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@megstheFoKer
It seems to us that the school is the one asking those questions of their students. That’s the problem. Adults who want to know about a child’s sexual preferences are not safe adults.
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Our statement regarding the Let Women Speak event.
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We just passed 5,000 followers! We’re defending the rights of women and girls to single sex spaces and services in New Zealand. Help us by checking out our pinned tweet to make a submission on the sex self-ID Bill today!
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Over 70 doctors and clinicians have written to the Australian govt expressing grave concern about medically transitioning children. In response the government has given gender clinics until 17 July to provide reports for review.
#nzpol
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For our Scottish sisters:
Trans men are women
Trans women are men
It’s not hate to tell the truth.
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What about the dictionary definition of ‘Woman’ is offensive David? How dare you bully women who are organising politically in the defence of women’s rights. Leave us alone!
#nzpol
#sexmatters
Have asked Go Media for their position this morning and will be reviewing accordingly. Certainly is at complete odds with the club's position on diversity and inclusion and specifically LGBTQI+
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“I think we do need to protect everyone from being discriminated against, but we don't need to say that trans-indentifying males are literally female to protect them from discrimination."
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MEDIA RELEASE: Speak Up for Women welcome coalition agreement policy changes
With the announcement today of a new coalition government, Speak Up for Women welcome in particular several policy decisions within our scope of work.
Our campaigning, in conjunction with other groups,
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Media reports that a ‘small but vocal minority’ oppose sex self-identification are simply not true, as our recent survey, conducted by Buzz Channel Ltd shows. I’m fact, we’re the only group speaking up for the majority of Kiwis on this issue right now.
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BREAKING: New Zealand telco giant joins with Young New Zealander of the year to ban New Zealanders.
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Thank you to our wonderful speakers
@aniobrien
,
@MelissaJDerby
, Meghan Murphy and Holly Lawford-Smith. And to all the brave women who attended last night. What a hugely successful event!
#Feminism2020
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This Bill enshrines sexist stereotypes in law: “The eligible child intends to live as a person of the nominated sex." How does a male person ‘live as’ a female? Does it involve a specific code of dress, or does it mean doing more housework and childcare?
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.
@TulsiGabbard
is speaking up for women and of course she is now receiving a torrent of hatred online and in the media.
What she is saying is not untrue and shouldn't be controversial; we all know this to be true. Thank you Tulsi!
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Thanks so much for all your support - we’ll cover the country in Billboards at this rate - keep it up!
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Pendulum swings towards fairer competition for women.
Always with the headline fixing!
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The day InsideOUT came to The Ministry of Transport
“This story is about a talk given by InsideOUT at the Ministry of Transport. It’s not really about me: instead it’s about how views around gender identity are treated within government and what happens when someone asks
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@CaitPsych
@Feefeeledeucex
It depends if they are male or female - we object to males using female bathrooms, trans or otherwise.
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Our nationwide campaign rumbles on to make the public aware of this Bill, since our media don’t seem to find the redefinition of ‘woman’ in law newsworthy 🤔
#nzpol
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‘Let Women Speak’ is not a SUFW event but we will be attending as will our supporters. We are opposed to Nazis in every way and do not wish for them to attend. They will not be welcome. We are a non-partisan women’s rights group and we simply wish to attend and
#LetWomenSpeak
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Interesting but not surprising that the vast majority of NZers don’t actually believe TW are women at all…very similar result to our own polling earlier in the year.
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What do you think about language such as "menstruating students", "pregnant people" and "chest feeding" that avoids using words like "women" and "girls"?
I don't like it
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I like it
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I couldn't care less
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Does it really say TERF Club?
MEDIA RELEASE NOVEMBER 17TH, 2022
Speak Up For Women NZ (SUFW) have launched a nationwide awareness campaign to highlight the eroding of women’s language, rights and the loss of single sex spaces...read more here...
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This from a they/them at the Public Service Association (PSA) in NZ - in response to the new governments efforts to provide a "safe and fair competition for women".
"In practical terms this policy would cut people out of playing sport because trans women would be forced to play
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Great news out of the UK. Sex self-ID has been scrapped, as it was here in NZ. Now work starts on unpicking the policy capture that preceded these failed attempts to undermine the law that protects women’s rights.
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The danger of silence: As we’ve toured the country we’ve seen the young age of those who oppose us, and the radical and unscientific beliefs they hold. They believe that trans identified males are literally female and that even to say sex matters politically is hateful. 1/10
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“If
@jacindaardern
had any sense she would be listening to New Zealand women rather than the agents of international lobby groups.” Indeed!
@jantinetti
#nzpol
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Come on kiwis, let's speak up for women's sport!
Send an easy automatic email using the form on our website and sign our petition
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📢 URGENT - PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE
The Midwifery Council Scope of Practice is not fit for purpose. The words woman, women, mother and baby make have been replaced with whānau.
The use of Te Reo is not problematic but the change in meaning and scope is extremely concerning.
A
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Men banned from playing women’s cricket.
Great to see ICC prioritizing integrity and finally recognizing what it actually means to be inclusive.
We call on NZC to follow the lead and implement this change across all levels of cricket in New Zealand.
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“Ethical Pimp” and “Feminist Pimp” are oxymorons. We reject in the strongest terms the exploitation of women being described in such disingenuous terms.
We condemn the sanitising of the plight of prostituted women in the media while glorifying the pimp.
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Meghan Murphy - The mere fact Canadian media refer to women as “non trans” illustrates how regressive this ideology is. Women are redefined out of the picture in order to accomodate a tiny minority who wish us to pretend material reality does not exist.
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“Rowling’s tweet earned her all the denunciations & anguished think pieces that a good mobbing entails. The usual script for what would follow: Rowling vanishes the tweet, apologizes and goes on a listening tour until she had been sufficiently reeducated. But Rowling didn’t.”
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Our Government has confirmed that they are accepting overseas submissions - please anyone with experience or expertise of sex self-ID have your say.
Say 'No' to sex self-ID today. We've made it easy with a submission builder on our website. Or simply write on your submission "I oppose the sex-self identification clauses and support the submission from Speak Up For Women."
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@MasseyUni
Discussing women’s rights is not transphobic. Feminists will continue to discuss all live topics that threaten the liberation of women and girls.
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Exactly what within our communication was transphobic, in your opinion, Deborah? Be specific, as you are lobbing very serious accusations at us.
#nzpol
I got an email from SUFW today, and two more form emails from constituents. One of the emails was full of transphobia.
I’m very clear on this: trans women are women, trans men are men, and I support the BDMRR bill.
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8 categories & 6 male winners including the category of Girls Track & Field Athlete. Yes, that’s right. Terry Miller, transwoman, won the Girls category. Fair?
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What a sad state of affairs. All for asking what definition she uses for the “women” in Ministry for Women.
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This is good news - so-called "hate speech" legislation was likely to silence women (and men) who say sensible things like:
- A man cannot be a woman
- A boy cannot be a girl
- A woman cannot be a man
- A girl cannot be a boy
- A man cannot be a lesbian (our personal favourite)
I’ve instructed the Law Commission to stop all work on hate speech legislation.
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