Tonight, is my dad’s book launch event down here in Wellington. Here’s the thing, my whole life folks have tried to gossip with me about my old man. He’s a larger than life figure but he’s also just my Dad. We are pretty good about drawing lines around our work and personal life.

#ToitūTeTiriti #TeRārangiRangatira #nzpol Willow Jean Prime: "Today, I have submitted my members bill, the Education and Training (Upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi) Amendment Bill, to reinstate the obligation for school boards to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi." 👏 www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA26...

Badges front and slightly off centre. Ordered more from @silkehartung.bsky.social too 🙌 #TransRightsAreHumanRights 🏳️‍⚧️

👇 Spain's Foreign Minister @middleeasteye 21 May New Zealand's Foreign Minister? fucking 🦗🦗🦗 NZ citizens now held in Israel & here being taunted by Israel's far-right national security minister Ben Gvir? Mousa Taher, Julien Blondel, Hāhona Jason Ormsby (Ngāti Maniapoto) 📝 [email protected]

💯 "Qtopia encourages NZ media to report on this issue with sensitivity & consideration for the harm this rhetoric does to trans people...A quarter of transgender people are seeing negative messaging about themselves online & in the media on a daily basis." @jennifilm.nz qtopia.org.nz/news/qtopia-...

🚨 SUNDAY 24 May 🚨 Pōneke Outside Te Papa, 12pm - 12:30pm "Join us to oppose the Government's reckless cuts and stand in solidarity with thousands of workers whose jobs are threatened." @nzpsa.bsky.social #nzpol

Be kind to your trans and gender diverse family and friends in NZ today, everyone. This story is across the media, and it can be really tough to deal with — it certainly caused my anxiety to significantly spike at the moment.

man, university libraries are amazing. you can just ask them to help get some obscure thing and they're like "doing that is actually our job, not only are we good at it but also we are excited to make this happen for you"

a few little updates about new zealand slapper (& wealth coach) kyron gosse: www.webworm.co/kyrongosse2/

"We call on the Foreign Minister, Winston Peters, to summon the Israeli Ambassador. He needs to stand up for these NZers who are being detailed illegally and tortured by the Israeli military." Our people: Mousa Taher, Julien Blondel, Hāhona Jason Ormsby 📝 [email protected]

Te Pāti Māori @oriini_kaipara 21 May Powerful speech in the Debating Chamber last nite (5mins long www.instagram.com/p/DYkqcSTzaVL)

ataahua 🥹 @inthemidstofseries ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

I realised in 2023 that I couldn't be a present parent for my kid, engage fully with my day job, and be an advocate for my trans whānau. I don't know if it was the threat to burn me and my kid alive, or the three page transphobic complaint to my professional body that did it, possibly both.

"strongly opposes the proposed Bill introduced by NZ1st. We believe this bill is a harmful & divisive attempt to undermine the dignity, safety & inclusion of our trans, takatāpui, intersex, non-binary & gender-diverse whānau under the guise of 'legal certainty'" @rainbowwellington.bsky.social 20 May

"The absolute idiocy of slashing 9,000 jobs just so they can spend four times as much on expensive consultants." Tamatha Paul @greens.org.nz 8:50pm, 20 May #nzpol

We got you the stats. We got you the proof. We did the work. We exhausted our own community to get the actual tangible evidence that we need and deserve the right to be who we are and to live equitably in this society with you all. Amplify our voices.

Email 1 to Steve Abel. Green.

other ridiculous effects on this law defining 'female' as 'adult human female' and 'male' as 'adult human male': you're not legally an adult until you hit 20 so all children and teenagers are nonbinary now, the cookers godang went and transed all the kids

Seen yesterday on a lamp post in Johnsonville, Wellington...

"Ōtepoti, stand by your trans friends & whānau! ... Trans people deserve protection & celebration. They have always been part of Aotearoa, and they will be long after this bill is forgotten as a relic of a shameful past." @mickeytreadwell.bsky.social Ōtepoti Dunedin City Council, 20 May 📸 @criticmag

welp, here we are. the select committee submission process is a setting ripe for status degradation ceremony. People shouldn't be allowed to use the select committee setting to get uninterrupted air time with the ears of the government to sexualise and monsterise an entire population.

Nicola Grigg advocating strongly for public debate on this issue in select committee, because it's important apparently that we pit cis women and trans people against one another in the public field on an issue that most people agree should not even be an issue.

"Why does the government have such a problem with trans people existing?" - Lauren Craig 💚 @laurenhollycraig @younggreensnz @greens.org.nz Candidate for Wairarapa, 20 May

To bend a well-known phrase: Labour is afraid people will say things about them if they support trans people. Trans people are afraid of being killed.

I can tell you it’s fucking harrowing to be talking to MPs about how many of us deal with death threats, get assaulted on public transport, can’t access healthcare, and how the need in our peer support service is escalating - and just get “we don’t want to make it worse :(“ back.

Every piss-weak "we don't want to get involved in a CULTURE WAR" mewling from allegedly progressive politicians shows that they are fundamentally unserious, not just about trans/queer rights but human rights in general. Stick your rainbow lanyard up your arse.

Because my anger can contain multitudes: I’ve been talking with Labour MPs about what was coming down the line for trans communities for three years now and their response every time was “we don’t want to get into a culture war”.

David Seymour told the select committee working on his treaty principles bill, for all the world to see, that the dismantling of distinctions in law (e.g., Māori and pākehā) was good and just. So his supporting of the enshrining-sex-distinction-in-law bill seems inconsistent, eh??????? hmmmmmmmmmm

ITS NOT A DISTRACTION. ITS WHAT THEY WANT TO DO. ITS NOT A DISTRACTION IF ITS WHAT THEY WANT TO DO AND ITS CONSISTENT WITH THEIR IDEOLOGY. IT IS NOT A FUCKEN DISTRACTION KNOCK THAT SHIT OFF.

It’s a straight up hate campaign that also resulted in ending a Green MPs political career. How NZF treated them is proof of how they’re treating our trans whanau. It’s also only the start before they move onto other marginalised communities. The right wing playbook in action.

President of @nzctu.bsky.social @sandragreynzctu 20 May #nzpol

You can, and should, ask all Ministers for any advice they have asked for on how this Bill will impact their portfolio if it passes - Min Customs, for example, if they have discussed what it will mean if NZ defines 'man' differently to trading partners and visitors?

Transphobia doesn't win votes. It doesn't get people elected. The vast majority of people tend not to give a fuck. But enough people with their hands on the levers of power see us as a laboratory group to test out the rollback of human rights and bodily autonomy, and the rest can't or won't see it.

Pro-tip for any budding politicians: Saying "It's a distraction" when your opponents begin a policy directly targeting a minority, one which will reverse your own governments gains for that minority, tells everyone in or supportive of that minority that you didn't give a fuck then and you don't now.

never a better day than today to ADD YOUR NAME Reinstate initiation of Gender Affirming Hormone Treatment (GAHT) at Student Health at the University of Waikato❗ "the current wait for a first appt is 10-11 months." 😱💔🤬 our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...

"This is not how you build a country, it's how you break one." @greens.org.nz Co-leaders, 20 May #nzpol

"am concerned the whitewashing agenda this govt is committed to embedding will lead to a drain of cultural understanding in the public service, making it even harder for Māori communities to have a voice in the development of policies that will impact them." #nzpol www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/05/20/p...

first time today that i've unclenched my teeth for a minute. ngā mihi @luxury_marmite_sandwich #nzpol

I emailed Nicola Grigg and asked her to honour the commitment that she made to the trans community during the last trans bill. I hope that she does.

never a better day than today to ADD YOUR NAME Reinstate initiation of Gender Affirming Hormone Treatment (GAHT) at Student Health at the University of Waikato❗ "the current wait for a first appt is 10-11 months." 😱💔🤬 our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...

The Government are worried about they/them. The Greens are worried about you.

Tldr: I went to the famous Oxford Union Debate to hold Empire accountable. Against 3 older power laden men pimping for colonisation. No biggie. I shat myself. It was terrifying. I won by just agreeing to do it, and telling my story anyway. But the win of 163-86 was a bonus. youtu.be/SlZE8BT_fio?...

I was the last to speak on the night. I had to sit through, in full plain view of everyone in the heart of 200 year old colonial institution – some of the most politically violent rhetoric that I’ve ever been exposed to. Some of which had received a standing ovation from the audience. Cool cool.

"Everyone just wants a decent cost of living, secure home and their privacy. Today the Government has instead chosen to import another culture war to try confuse and divide us." Chlöe Swarbrick @greens.org.nz 20 May #nzpol

This is so ratshit. Please turn up for us.

Offer to pay for your trans friends to get their birth certificates, passports, and drivers' licenses updated. Now.

Rights Aotearoa will get an initial list of points for submitters ready over the next few days. But no need to wait until then I can verbally take you through our points before then. 100 individually crafted high quality submissions are better than 12k FSU style form submissions so this boutique 3/4

Hey cis people please don't be telling trans people "oh there are some good people in the coalition, you should try and talk to them". They are trying to kill us, they don't want us to exist, stop trying to play the fucking civility game

They're right you know

tough to overstate how quickly science funding in New Zealand has been blown to pieces - on Friday the NZ govt straight up disbanded the Marsden fund (our version of the NSF) it'll be replaced by a 'transition fund' with less money and zero information, as of yet, about what it will support #nzpol