Simple Kiwi

Oh, do spare us, @IngridLearyMP A Labour MP, paid by NZ taxpayers, telling people to mind our own business if we don't share her simping for the umpteenth awareness week for the "trans" industry. Well, here's the thing, Ingrid. It IS our business. It's our business when lesbians are told that men larping as women are lesbians too, and that we're bigots if we reject them. It's our business when girls who don't conform to sex stereotypes are told they're actually boys. Since when is being a tomboy a problem that needs medication? It's our business when children are put on puberty blockers and young adults on cross-sex hormones that give them horrific lifelong consequences for their bodies, for their fertility, and for their sexual function. It's our business when we lose our female-only spaces to males, when language is so twisted it's beyond recognition, and when we're expected to take part in mentally unwell people's fantasies. And it's certainly our business when politicians promote all this while treating legitimate criticism as something rude and unwelcome. We're also thoroughly sick of being bombarded with endless awareness days, weeks, months - nobody wants this stuff. It's not just dangerous, it's also cringe. Yes, you are entitled to celebrate whatever you like, but you are an elected representative, not the country's moral instructor. You don't get to tell the people who pay your salary to shut up and mind our own business when our rights, our children and our freedoms are at stake. #ThisIsTrans