So, like, there was this protest in Dunedin, right? A bunch of trans-rights activists showed up to protest against some gender legislation that New Zealand First is trying to push through. Basically, they want the law to say that a “woman” is an adult human biological female and a “man” is an adult human biological male in all laws. Pretty controversial stuff, if you ask me.
About 400 people gathered in the Octagon with all these rainbow banners and posters that said stuff like “Respect existence or expect resistance”. The protest was put together by the International Socialist Organisation, which sounds pretty official and organized if you ask me.
One speaker at the protest was like, Winston Peters is just trying to erase people and not give them any legal status. That sounds pretty intense, right? But Winston Peters and his party are standing by their proposed law. They’re saying they’ve been arguing about it for years and it’s all about aligning with the majority. Not really sure why this matters, but okay.
The bill isn’t government policy or anything, so it’ll only be debated if it randomly gets picked from the ballot. Peters is out here saying that the proposed law is just stating biological facts. He thinks it’s about time New Zealand caught up with the rest of the world and stopped following some “woke leftist ideology track”. Whatever that means.
He also said something about how the government shouldn’t be in people’s bedrooms, but this law is just about stating the biological facts. When asked how they’d enforce it, Peters said they wouldn’t challenge transgender women unless they tried to go into single-sex spaces or wanted to join a sport like rugby or boxing. Seems kind of harsh, but who am I to judge?
So, like, that’s the latest drama happening in Dunedin. It’s all about this proposed gender legislation and a big protest that went down in the Octagon. Who knows what’s going to happen next, right? It’s all up in the air, if you ask me.