Ani O'Brien
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To settle speculation about my politics...
I’ve given votes to Greens, Labour, National & ACT (gen & elec) over the years. I worked in the Leader of the Opposition's office in 2021.
I party voted Green and electorate voted Labour in 2017. Within a year I was…
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The two women on this podium come from impoverished backgrounds. They worked their butts off & had to rely on charity to train only to be humiliated by a millionaire white man twice their age who announced he is a woman & was pandered to.
Pick a side.
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They knew what a woman was when they owned us as property.
They knew what a woman was when they denied us the vote.
They knew what a women was when they refused us bank accounts.
They knew what a woman was when we still couldn’t purchase a home alone in 1982.
They still know.
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Mouncey is a male who is thrilled he has got his own way over the “hysterical” females. Stop playing the game. He is a man stealing opportunities from women & making sport unsafe.
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Women are concerned about the potential for male violence if female-only spaces aren’t protected.
Transwoman shows them whos boss by infiltrating their space in order to harm women.
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@PennSwimDive
@IvyLeague
Congratulations to Catherine. I'm so sorry she doesn't have the support and leadership of adults who are willing to stand up for her and what is right and instead let this farce continue.
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If they would have succeeded in pulling
@ThePosieParker
to the ground do you really think they would have stopped?
#LetWomenSpeakAuckland
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This is the level of unhinged we deal with. For clarity I simply acknowledge the existence of biological sex & argue that sometimes it is appropriate for reasons of safety, fairness, dignity, & privacy for us to separate spaces & opportunities by sex.
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Today I’m going to attend a gathering of women who want to discuss our right to have certain spaces & opportunities female-only. Men have organised a massive protest & we are being characterised as a threat to society. It is 2023. This is horrifying.
#LetWomenSpeak
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@stillgray
All the people in the comments saying that they should’ve got married before having a baby as if he wouldn’t still leave her.
Being married doesn’t stop weak men from walking out on their families.
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Tomato Soup has plead not guilty...which will be difficult to convince anyone of because of the steady stream of gloating tweets...
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Wow the
@PureNewZealand
social media team probably weren’t expecting to hear from so many people saying NZ isn’t safe for women. The behaviour of the violent protesters today has embarrassed us on the world stage even if local media celebrates it.
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On Saturday Shaneel led a mob attack on a group of women gathering to speak. A 70yo woman was assaulted so severely that her skull fractured. You’ve all seen the footage of the violence. It is abhorrent that
@KiwibankNZ
would celebrate someone who took part in such behaviour.
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@CitizenFreePres
She isn’t asking questions to prompt interesting and helpful insight for the USA public. She is arguing with him from a point of vested interest. She is an activist not a journalist.
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The violence being encouraged, justified, and excused in trans activist circles needs to be addressed. This statement is unbelievable.
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Disgusted. The organisers of the mob (Max Tweedie & Shaneel Lal etc) who whipped up a frenzy must take responsibility & condemn those who assaulted KJK. The media who knowingly painted her as a Nazi, knowing she isn’t, are responsible too. You justified violence against her.
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I’ve been thinking about the erosion of safeguarding practices. When I was at school we were taught that no adult should tell us to keep a secret from our parents - it was a red flag. Now schools actively hide stuff from parents & even discuss how to do so at conferences.
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NZ is seen as too dangerous for a woman to come here & speak about our rights.
@ThePosieParker
spoke to security team in UK & her family & they told her not come here. They don’t trust our police, border, or politicians.
This is a dark indictment on our country.
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I really don't understand the LGBT+ groups who are out making excuses for Hamas & blaming Israel. Guys, Israel is literally the only pro-LGBT+ place in the Middle East & Hamas would slit our throats in a second for being gay.
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The school shooter in the US is a transman right? I’m a bit confused because transwomen’s crimes get reported as woman/female but this transman is being called she/female & they’re reporting on the rarity of female mass shooters. I guess transmen don’t have the same privileges 🤷🏼♀️
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A professor leaving a university talk surrounded by protection, media, & police because she dares to say that humans can't change sex, men can't be lesbians, & women's rights are harmed by trans activism.
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As we go into another week of attempted gaslighting, can I remind our media, politicians, and lanyard-wearing class that most of us have these three things:
1. An internet connection
2. A pair of eyes
3. A functioning brain
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“Love and affirmation”
I was there. Right up the front where all the violence happened. If they would’ve succeeded in getting Kellie-Jay on the ground they wouldn’t have stopped. The mob was rabid.
@NZGreens
needs to take responsibility for the violence they justified.
Revisionist history attempts are in overdrive as culture war vultures beat their social media drums. Thousands of Aucklanders, of all walks of life, know what they experienced yesterday. Overwhelmingly, that was love and affirmation.
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High school student speaks at Riverside Unified District Board Meeting a couple of days ago.
Listen to her. Listen to the anger in her voice. Women & girls do not consent to this re-engineering of society & trampling of our rights.
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“I did assault her and I will do it again,” she said.
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If you’re calling something “genocide” when not one person has been killed in NZ in relation to it & the group you’re calling genocidal are the ones who have been the victims of the violence, YOU are at best the conspiracy theorist & at worst deliberately manufacturing tensions.
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If this man thinks this is the worst thing I've ever said, he clearly never witnessed me lose the end of the sellotape.
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I’ve spoken to KJK she’s doing okay. Understandably shaken but she’s okay.
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Update on 5yo boy who was sexually abused by older kids at school. Abusers remain at school & the victim's dad says they'll have to move so he can go to another school.
“If these children do get away with it, it will be because of who their parents are."
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WHAT HAPPENED ACCORDING TO THE WOMAN WHO WAS TRESPASSED BY ŌTAKI NEW WORLD:
I have personally talked with her this morning & this is what she said.
👉The incident occurred on 30 Dec approx. 4.30pm
👉She was wearing a t-shirt that said “men aren’t women, even if you squint.”
👉She…
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🧵 I thought I’d share what i was going to read out at
#LetWomenSpeakAuckland
- some of it is abbreviated.
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I’m so angry about this that I’m going to tweet this & then get off X. That a young man can punch an elderly woman in the face & get discharge without conviction is a sign of a broken justice system. Violence like this is not a minor crime. The judge should be ashamed.
Defendant in the Posie Parker assault of elderly women gets discharge without conviction and permanent name suppression. The Court recognised the 180 hours of Red Cross voluntary work and other factors which the defendant had undertaken.
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“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
New Zealand is a dystopia.
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This is what will be the lasting memory of Newshub for me. When they lied about women wanting to gather to talk about our rights & made
@theposieparker
doing up her top into a "nazi" symbol. We were mobbed by violent activists that day & media stoked that. mob.
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The NZ Media should hang their heads in shame. They know she didn’t know the Nazis in Melbourne. They heard her denounce Nazis. They still pushed that narrative because the one type of person people seem to agree it is ok to be violent to is a Nazi. They set her up for this.
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Rainbow capitalism is a joke.
If you’re going to virtue signal about my sexual orientation perhaps try not to use an image where the heterosexual thing is the only one that works.
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@MrAndyNgo
It’s outrageous that he can even appear in court like that. If a female lawyer had her tits out she would be told to dress appropriately or leave.
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To those celebrating that
@ThePosieParker
isn’t coming to NZ, the women you call terfs are already here and we won’t stop saying all of the entirely reasonable things Posie says. We are the child saying “The Emperor has no clothes”.
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Excellent piece by
@_MaccaNZ
- "I was not a supporter of Parker, but neither was I a supporter of the protesters...I wanted to hear what Parker had to say, hear some of the discourse from other speakers, and make up my own mind."
@ThePosieParker
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What an actual joke. Whoever breached name suppression is going to get more of a punishment than the scummy incel who punched a grandmother.
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I grew up with a lot of trust in the media & journalism. It is so jarring for me to see our state broadcaster propagating things I know for a fact not to be true. Watching a narrative being spun that bears no resemblance to reality is horrifying. I actually feel a bit heartbroken
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@FaeJohnstone
@Hersheys
Look you do you, but this is so exhaustingly insulting to women. 50% of the population is female & on the one day supposed to celebrate us,
@hersheys
chooses to celebrate a male who presents according to feminine stereotypes.
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The NZ media have decided we don’t need to have public discussions about gender identity & women’s rights because they’ve decided for us. That’s why no one reported on our PM having a brain fart over the definition of ‘woman’.
They stop the conversation dead.
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There are 7 Māori ministers in the new Cabinet announced yesterday. More than ever before I believe.
This would be the headline if it was a Labour led Cabinet.
But it isn’t.
The media & lefties on X genuinely seem to think they’re the ‘wrong’ kind of Māori. So they don’t count.
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What I’ll be talking about while men scream at us:
- Safety of women in prison
- women’s aged care
- Domestic/sexual violence
- Supporting kids to be themselves without lifelong dependency on pharmaceuticals
- Biological sex is real & sometimes it matters
#LetWomenSpeakNZ
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@BBCCasualty
@BBCOne
What - and I cannot stress this enough - the fuck do you think you’re doing?
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@Jackiew80333500
@AvivaKlompas
Just a reminder you’re talking about a child who has been held by terrorists for nearly 2 months. Whatever misguided sense of self-righteousness you’ve cultivated is an affront to human decency. You sneer at a little girl, you monster.
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A friend of mine went to Family Bar (gay bar) the night of
@ThePosieParker
event last week & said that he had several conversations with people who had been at the protest & who were troubled by how violent it got. They’d shown up for flag waving & weren’t comfortable with it.
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Not all women can get pregnant, that is true.
However, only women can get pregnant.
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Three identical men complain that women’s only sport exists.
No one is fucking banned. Everyone can take part so long as they understand it is organised by sex not gender identity. Just like a 24yo can’t demand entry to the u15 rugby team.
#BHN
@CitizenBomber
chats about how banning trans athletes from community level sports will erase a sector of society from something all NZers hold close. It's more than nanny state, it fascism
#nzpol
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He has gone viral & foreign media are reporting. NZ media... 🦗🦗🦗
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All of you who think Shaneel is the exemplar of rainbow virtue & a role model for young New Zealanders might want to have a word with ya boy.
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Congratulations to the 122 MPs who made it through the stress & pressures of the job & didnt shoplift from a designer boutique today. Presumably.
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It’s like he thinks we don’t have access to the videos all over the internet. He is continuing the “far right” bullshit that they used to justify violence against KJK.
Max whipped up the mob all week. Take some responsibility.
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@jonathanliew
Women exist. Women want to be able to partake in sport & athletic events fairly without males using a metaphoric battering ram to get in and take up space.
Your misogyny is seeping from your pores.
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The audacity.
Shaneel Lal is one of the last people in NZ who should be treated as an expert in what women want & need. He is a misogynist who invited violence (successfully) against a group of women wanting to speak about our rights & experiences.
Insulting.
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The "unhinged woman" is not a woman. Ashley Winter identifies as a woman but the article only calls him "the most menacing and largest-framed person there that day".
Sick of male crimes being attributed to women. Not our crimes, not our stats.
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If a National MP was under police investigation for theft not only would every news outlet be running it in the top slot, but they'd be doing stories about how Nats are refusing to answer questions & stonewalling journalists.
When it's the Greens there is 1 journalist pursuing it…
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Oh goodness now I have had a couple of
@SparkNZ
employees DM me. Sounds like a pretty hostile place to work if you aren’t on board with the fringe views of the elite.
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Anyone who has spent any time outside of the beltway saw this coming. Anyone who spoke to ordinary Kiwis. Anyone who listened instead of lecturing.
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Thank you to the women who gathered outside NZ High Commission in London to read out speeches that were not able to be given in Auckland & Wellington. Thank you for being our voices 💜🤍💚
@phil_goff
I hope you took note.
#LetWomenSpeak
@roseveniceallan
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Shared with permission. A woman reached out to me & said as she has always been a trans ally she tried to explain to Shaneel why she was worried about losing female only spaces. This is the response she got.
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@ZubyMusic
In NZ our new govt just announced it won't fund any sports org that allow males to compete in women/girl's sport. The media and usual suspects have lost their heads.
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Huge news. Shaneel Lal is a white supremacist. Hope
@newshub
blur out this dangerous and violent footage.
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This is pathetic harassment. A group of predominantly women want to gather & hear about
@Glinner
’s book & experiences with cancellation. It is at a private venue & only people who want to hear him speak will be there.
Leave us alone, Paul. Get a fucking life.
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Are my eyes deceiving me? Guys, I think Stuff just published a piece by Suzanne Moore saying "terf is a slur"
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Imagine being a
@SparkNZ
shareholder & watching an activist social media manager use the company to grandstand about her personal politics.
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Jacinda Ardern waxing lyrical about “politics of fear” is bloody rich given she locked us in our houses & said we could trust no one but her.
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Putting it on record that I am fearful for the safety of women like me who dare to speak up about our rights in NZ. There is a concerted effort from men like this to attach status of terrorism & nazism to us thus making us targets for the vigilantes we saw in Albert Park.
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It’s funny how Simeon Brown & Brooke van Velden don’t get fawned over as young politicians making their mark.
They’re only 3 & 2 years older than Chloe Swarbrick respectively. They’re both senior MPs & now cabinet ministers.
Creative NZ isn’t funding documentaries about them.…
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Wow. Good on you for spending the time going through video. Get those images to
@nzpolice
& hopefully he sees some consequences for punching an elderly woman in the face.
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This is a pretty regular occurrence. It’s been happening to me for years. The justification for the abuse is usually things I have never said or done nor things I’ve ever even thought.
Be kind means nothing. These people are followed by MPs & Wellington Councillors.
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The same people cheering on the hate speech laws just got a billboard pulled down because it had a dictionary definition on it they don’t like. They characterised it as hate speech.
They will be litigious, vexatious, and zealous if given these hate speech laws.
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So the trans movement in NZ wants to be armed? With what? Guns?
This is the person who poured tomato soup on
@ThePosieParker
& said she "will do it again".
Starting to think this isn't about living free from discrimination...
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To be clear, the extremists who hijacked our movement/community are responsible for the backlash we are seeing.
Support for gay civil rights was at an all time high until we were derailed from seeking equality and destroying discrimination into a bizarre ideology imposing queer…
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@stillgray
I’m just sick of all the performance. If everyone could just be less shit to each other and not tolerate abusive behaviour that would be great. We don’t need all of these stupid virtue signals.
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To any men who plan to ruin our events next weekend by hijacking them for their own agenda:
We don’t want you there. We want to gather to talk about women’s rights not to be dragged into your hate. Your racism & bigotry disgust me. We have nothing in common & you aren’t welcome.
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Some kids on TikTok are trying to insult me by saying I look like I’m “like 30” 😂😂😂😂
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Yup. And women like me have been treated like the lowest of the low for trying to warn everyone.
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This isn’t a joke. Whether you agree with them or not, there are thousands of Kiwis who are distressed, frustrated, desperate enough to protest in the wind & rain on Parliament’s lawn. Instead of deescalating & listening, our speaker is ridiculing them & playing games.
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I will not vote for any party who calls the violence at Albert Park "peaceful" or defends the behaviour of the assailants.
I will spoil my ballot before I give you a vote.
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Chris Hipkins knows what a woman is.
The overwhelming majority of his voters do too.
So why is he in such a pickle?
Who is he afraid of?
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You’ve relentlessly smeared and attacked me for over a decade because I speak up for women’s rights, do you really think you can bully me out of speaking up against antisemitism?
Never again should mean never again.
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@NHSEnglandLDN
It may seem self evident to you that everyone knows if they have ovaries or not but in diverse populations with many people whose first language isn’t English that isn’t the case. You are sacrificing good public comms & public health messaging in order to virtue signal. Unethical
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This woman strutted along the barricades whipping up the crowd yesterday. She was there tearing away the barriers and storming towards women gathering to speak. She can wear as many “kindness” T-shirts as she likes but we see her for the bully she is.
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Thank you to the women in Britain calling on your politicians & ambassadors to condemn the violent treatment of KJK.
As this week has demonstrated in NZ our media are captured & ideological & our politicians spineless. They’re celebrating what happened.
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“Children will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, NHS England has confirmed”
Congratulations to all of those in the UK who have fought to protect children. This is a huge victory.
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I miss being able to buy products & services without having the company’s fringe politics rammed down my throat.
I don’t understand what commercial benefit there is to allowing junior staff to treat business social media accounts like personal political platforms.
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It’s fantastic to see that
@chrishipkins
has changed his tune & will protect the rights of
@ThePosieParker
& the women who gather to speak when she returns to NZ.
Will Hipkins apologise for how our rights were trampled when she visited last?
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Once New Zealand bans puberty blockers there must be a review into the extraordinary influence that organisations like InsideOUT & Rainbow Youth have had. In particular IO was set up & run by young people with no appropriate expertise or qualifications. Yet the Ministry of…
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Every Monday New Zealand’s prime minister does a round of media on the morning shows.
What will
@chrishipkins
have to say about the violence against and silencing of women?
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"Refocus the curriculum on academic achievement & not ideology, inc the removal & replacement of the gender, sexuality, & relationship-based education guidelines."
Kids in NZ will no longer be taught they can be "born in the wrong body" & that sterilising drugs are "reversible".
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Marama Davidson has pulled the 'woman' and the 'woman of colour' card.
Being women doesn't absolve us from responsibility for our actions. We don't get a pass on shoplifting.
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Funny how the media weren't so concerned with people comparing things to Nazi Germany when they themselves were calling women like me nazis for trying to hold women's rights meetings.
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Self-identification comes into effect in New Zealand today.
Fill in a form and change the sex on your birth certificate because being a female or male is nothing more than idea apparently.
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