Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles

Christmas tree and lights are up & #SecretSantaAoNZ pressie is posted! I’m starting to feel in holiday mode but there’s still two weeks till Christmas holidays. Eek!

“We’re taking this to court”: Doctors Are Fighting New Zealand’s Puberty Blocker Ban “Only a small number of young people in Aotearoa are prescribed reversible pubertal suppression, but for those who need it, the negative impacts of this regulation will be huge.”

1. New Zealand doctors are officially suing to reverse the country's ban on puberty blockers for gender affirming care.

“These regulations are being enacted based on politics, not on clinical evidence."

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PATHA are putting together some comms about donations.

I don't know how much they need, but you can donate to the action here. (There is a specific dropdown box to tag the donation to the blockers action):

patha.nz/donate

This is why I mask indoors when sharing air with others, regularly test, use air purifiers, and get a COVID booster every six months, most recently on Monday. Saddens and infuriates me governments and organisations are letting us down despite all the evidence these protections are still needed.

That’s for last year’s applications. Will be interesting to see the difference for this years applications.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Important news NZ peeps! Great to see PATHA challenging this terrible ban.

Help us support 60+ families over Christmas As our pōhutukawa bloom, we are asking you to help hope bloom in Gaza for our precious families.

It’s freezing in Gaza and people need food/clothes. Emily Writes is raising funds to help 60 families. We are gonna have lots of Christmases in our future - let’s give these families a fighting chance: chuffed.org/project/1589...

Thanks so much!

Morning peeps! Final tally from my crowdfunding campaign is just over $194,500, incl the donations made directly. I’m blown away! Pledge Me will be in touch to collect your gifts shortly. Thanks so much for all your support!

LOL Of course they do <sigh>

Awesome!

I’ll tell you what I do love. Lego, obviously. But also feminist pins and tea towels. I cannot get enough of them. Last weekend I got a pin shaped like a coffin with the words ‘Bury the patriarchy’ on it. Would quite like one that says ‘Bury the broligarchy’. Or something anti-AI #SecretSantaAoNZ

Only latex! And react very badly to mosquitoes. Hate coriander with a passion #SecretSantaAoNZ

Love cats. Very sad not to have any anymore. Also love fish and aquariums. Would love a dragon. #SecretSantaAoNZ

Hmmm. Musicians would be The Cure, Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Nirvana, Prodigy, XX, The Beth’s… Fave authors are Terry Pratchett, Chris Brookmyer, Jane Harper, and Liane Moriarty. TV shows - currently loving The Pitt and Slow Horses & obvs Lego Masters Australia #SecretSantaAoNZ

I love board games but we mainly have to play cooperative ones as I’m pretty competitive (mainly because I want to know how to beat the game and other players end up being collateral damage…) #SecretSantaAoNZ

I also love doing sudoku and quite fancy trying a cross stitch/embroidery set some day. #SecretSantaAoNZ

Don’t drink alcohol. Mostly drink water and decaf coffee that family mock me for basically being just coloured water! #SecretSantaAoNZ

OMG, with my crowdfunder going on I’ve been a bit distracted and forgot about #SecretSantaAoNZ! Sorry to my Santa for dropping no clues at all. Oops! I love jigsaw puzzles, especially the murder mystery ones where you don’t know what picture you are making

Your gentle reminder that my crowdfunding campaign ends tomorrow night… Thanks everyone for all the love. It’s been amazing. www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...

Thanks!

No idea!

It’s been lovely chatting to people about my legal action and crowdfunding campaign. A few days ago I was interviewed by the Skeptics Zone peeps. Here’s the link if you want to listen www.skepticzone.tv Please share!

That’s quite clever!

It will!

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They would probably argue they do fund students. In our faculty they currently get about $2,500 a year which lasts about 1-2 months 😢

I have no idea how we are expected to fund our postgraduate student’s studies. To be fair, I’ve been funding mine from my own pocket for years, using money I earned from paid talks & radio/paper columns. But I’m approaching 2026 with no paid columns anymore & no paid talks lined up. It’s a bit scary

Thanks Heather. I have absolutely no idea how I’m going to keep them going without paying for their consumables out of my own pocket. This is utterly nuts.