1. What does Labour do about Winston?

    Current polling suggests that we may witness something that has not happened before, a one term National Government. But this may mean Labour making a deal with Winston Peters. What should Labour do?

  2. Curia exited RANZ because Family First are unbalanced

    David Farrar’s company Curia abruptly exited the Research Association of New Zealand (RANZ) in August. It was triggered by a complaint about the fairness of the wording of a question in a April poll. This was a really bad poll, and this question a particularly egregious breach of any fairness. The question was paid for by Family Fi(r)st.

  3. While the gender/sex culture war rages…

    Listen to the detransitioners.

  4. The Cass Review reader: investigations into the treatment of gender dysphoric children and youth

    The final report is a carefully worded document designed particularly for the systems of power in charge of child health, wellbeing and safeguarding: health systems and their managers, medical practitioners and their professional bodies, MPs and government departments, and NGOs.

    It’s also a damning indictment of the poorly evidence medical experiment that has been done on gender non-conforming children in the past decade. It’s likely to be the biggest medical scandal many of us will see.

  5. Medical gender transition in New Zealand: How common is it really?

    Laura López decided to explore and analyse the available evidence on medical transition in New Zealand.

  6. Should therapists and counsellors speak about the medicalisation of gender non-conforming children?

    Is there a connection between the closure of the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service in the UK, and a conference being held 12,000 miles away in Nelson, Aotearoa?

  7. Why is the UK’s only youth gender identity clinic closing, and what does this mean for New Zealand?

    The NHS is shutting down its gender identity clinic for children after a damning review found that it failed vulnerable under-18s.

  8. UK government signals urgent inquiry into overmedicalisation of gender non-conforming children

    This is a medical scandal affecting children and teens, and the left is still largely in denial of it.

  9. Why Sweden is changing its gender transition policy for children and young people

    In the last couple of weeks, Sweden has joined a small, but growing number of countries that have changed their policies regarding medical gender transition for children.

  10. National used to be better than this

    Back in the day National used to have a strong urban liberal wing that gave the impression that it was sympathetic to LGBTQI issues.  Yesterday that impression was trashed.

  11. Guest post: Whisper to a scream

    What can you do when what you say is not what is being heard? This Guest Post by Standardista Molly explores different beliefs about femaleness and transness, and how we talk about these.