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Reverse the decision to deny transgender and takatāpui young people access to puberty blockers Dear Minister Simeon Brown We write to you as transgender and takatāpui young people of Aotearoa New Zealand to ask you to reconsider your decision to ban the use of puberty blockers (gonadotropin-re...

If you have a spare minute, please sign the petition to the NZ government to repeal the ban on puberty blockers for trans and Takatāpui youth 🩷🩵🤍

our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...

nz government recently banned puberty blockers, but only for transgender youth. please support this petition to reverse this! […]

PSNZ responds to government announcement on puberty blockers

The Paediatric Society of NZ - representing the clinical field most relevant here - have released maybe the strongest statement of all the medical bodies: “puberty blockers are an established, safe, reversible, and
life-saving treatment option”

For context, these were due to be published in March 2025. The NZ govt prevented their publication because they intended to ban puberty blockers and the guidelines show they are safe, effective, and standard care internationally. Today they were released in an OIA putting them in the public domain.

Media release from NZ Green Party and Marama Davidson: Our trans whanau deserve better than this Government Following last week's political posturing from Christopher Luxon's Government, the Greens promise to do everything in their power to ensure everyone gets the healthcare they need, and that needs to include our trans whanau. "Trans rights are human rights and our trans whanau deserve access to critical healthcare," says Green Party Co-leader, Marama Davidson. "Aotearoa can be a country that leads with compassion, evidence and aroha. But right now, the Government is fanning the flames of an imported culture war by targeting trans and takatapui New Zealanders instead of addressing the issues impacting all of us in a cost-of-living crisis. "They are lauding a UK-style approach which shows disregard for international expert consensus, and has been criticised in the peer-reviewed literature. "Puberty blockers are healthcare, and gender affirming care for trans young people is recognised as best practice. The Government has continued to allow their use for other conditions, so it's clear this move is politically motivated, not scientific. "As we have heard again and again, limiting access to gender-affirming care risks undermining the well-being of trans and non-binary youth, whose voices and experiences have been clear: gender affirming care saves lives. «We have heard the voices of trans people feeling attacked from every direction. Once again, Luxon's Government has espoused some incredibly transphobic rhetoric that aims to cause harm and division. We need to do better for our young people. "What's needed now is a commitment to support our rainbow communities by delivering equitable, accessible healthcare based on robust evidence and empathy, not imported culture wars. "The Greens affirm our pledge to properly resource and promote clear pathways for timely, free, non-discriminatory access to all forms of gender-affirming healthcare based on informed consent and s…

Great to see this official statement from NZ Greens 🏳️‍⚧️

60,000 cisgender women write powerful open letter in support of trans community “Not in our Name” is the title of a collective of cisgender women who have written an open letter calling out the media and politicians for promoting anti-trans rhetoric.

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
60,000 cisgender women write powerful open letter in support of trans community: ‘We have had enough’
https://bit.ly/43rHxD9

Sexism in council? Tears, a resignation and Mayor Wayne Brown’s orgasm joke Claims female councillors silenced amid 'laddish' climate and crass humour.

#nzpol #sexism #patriachy #leadership

I appreciate David Fisher's reporting on this - but the sub ed needs to be told there's no question mark needed in this headline.

Fisher gives us multiple clear cut eg's of how sexism & patriarchal culture actually works 🧵
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-...

Please share in your networks outside BlueSky - and allow us to contact you going forward. Our one advantage is that we are many - and they are few.

Fuck mate I didn't think I could BE more proud of being a Te Pāti Māori member

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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Petition: Decriminalise Abortion I am calling on the UK government to remove abortion from criminal law so that no pregnant person can be criminalised for procuring their own abortion.

Calling UK citizens and residents! Please consider signing this petition to decriminalise abortion petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Snapshot of the 1856 article by E. Foote describing her experiment, and concluding that an atmosphere of CO2 would result in significantly higher temperatures.

The core science behind climate change is so basic that it's been understood since the 1850's

daily.jstor.org/how-19th-cen...

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Gender Dysphoria, Children, And Moral Panics What new data from the UK shows about trans children

My new piece looks at newly-published data from the Cass review and how it contradicts the document in many ways.

The review continues to be remarkably problematic and scientifically flawed.

gidmk.substack.com/p/gender-dys...

Today's the day - you've got 5pm to email pbconsultation@health.govt.nz with your whakaaro. Lots of resources available in this thread - doesn't have to be a masterpiece, but you do have to do it!

Is Gender Only a Construct, Hierarchy, or Political Condition? A Few Thoughts After Last Week’s Kerfuffle

NEW ESSAY that will solve everything & make everyone happy!!! /s – "Is Gender Only a Construct, Hierarchy, or Political Condition? A Few Thoughts After Last Week's Kerfuffle"
on Substack (free): juliaserano.substack.com/p/is-gender-...
& Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/is-gender-on...

New French guidelines show doctors overwhelmingly support gender-affirming care - LGBTQ Nation The medical guidelines contradict numerous conclusions from the UK's infamous Cass Review.

After extensive review, France has established very positive gender affirming care guidelines, and they’ve rejected the highly politicized Cass Report as simply false.

www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...

How To: Submit in favour of gender-affirming care. A simple guide to avoid some suspicious survey framing.

Please make a submission about puberty blockers in NZ. Those who want to remove trans healthcare specifically and trans people in general are flooding the system.
If you need a short guide on how to do a good submission it’s here:

NZ is consulting the public on regulations for puberty blockers – this should be a medical decision not a political one Puberty blockers don’t necessarily result in a measurable effect at the time they are taken. The main impact is seen when people are older and may need to seek surgery and hormone treatments.

PATHA's VP Dr Rona Carroll in the Conversation this morning with a clear explainer of what puberty blockers are, why the quality of the evidence is low, and why access to care is vital. There must not be further restriction to this care - to do so would be on purely political grounds.

Was the hīkoi New Zealand’s largest-ever protest? Media estimates of the crowd size ranged from 17,000 to 100,000+, but one thing we can say for sure – it was bloody massive.

David Seymour vs probably the largest single political mobilisation event in NZ history
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Go and fill this in now. Say you don't think there should be more regulation. Say it should be available to the vanishingly small number of people who need it.

He was too fast for us too!

All good - was also cool to see you on a fabulous day. You did look like you had a jaunty inner vibe going on - and of course you were bringing class to the morning.