Women's Rights Party NZ

Protecting the rights of women and children. The only political party in NZ that puts women's interests first.

[Women's Rights Party NZ @WRP_NZ]

An Unfortunate Experiment Strikes Again. "The irony that WHA refuses to recognise is that this ideology has led to another ‘unfortunate experiment’ - the medication & mutilation of gender-distressed young people" https://t.co/M4FGeuYXqn

[Women's Rights Party NZ @WRP_NZ]

"The real question isn’t whether trade unions should be allowed to campaign. It’s whether members understand what they are actually paying for." https://t.co/XDS9nvbVXB

[Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender @CanSG_org]

See this report about Australian psychiatrist Dr Andrew Amos https://t.co/8RbkmZB2Wm
"The Medical Board of Australia has imposed conditions on the registration of Queensland psychiatrist Dr Andrew Amos, banning him from posting on social media about gender medicine, gender identity, or transgender persons.

He is also barred from any role involving direct or indirect clinical patient contact.

These are not conditions imposed after a finding of misconduct. They are “immediate action” restrictions, imposed before any full investigation has concluded. AHPRA’s power to take such action requires only a “reasonable belief” that there may be a serious risk to the public.

The board does not need to establish all the facts, and an investigation may take up to two years.

The practical effect is stark. Dr Amos, a senior psychiatrist who has published peer-reviewed critiques of the gender-affirming model of care in Australasian Psychiatry, has been stripped of his capacity to practise clinically and forbidden from participating in public discussion on the very subject he has researched and published on. This is prior restraint in its most direct form, applied not by a court but by a regulatory body exercising administrative power.

Dr Amos has argued in academic publications that gender-affirming care is incompatible with evidence-based psychiatric practice. He has questioned whether the model allows psychiatrists to properly assess whether mental illness may be contributing to a patient's gender distress. These are legitimate clinical concerns, grounded in published research and shared by clinicians internationally." (HRLA)

[Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender @CanSG_org]

It takes enormous bravery and career risk for clinicians in some parts of Australia to express concerns about gender medical transition in children and young people. Doctors who have tried to generate debate and discussion have been suspended from clinical practice. Dr Jillian Spencer was suspended from clinical duties in 2023 after raising concerns about patient safety and has been now been given notice of termination. Read about her case here. https://t.co/SOQUDzLNsa

[Women's Rights Party NZ @WRP_NZ]

And the Health NZ/MOH unfortunate experiment of removing women's sex-based language from maternity, breastfeeding & women's health without evidence, & without an impact assessment of any kind. https://t.co/hhO5Neyz1v

[Women's Rights Party NZ @WRP_NZ]

An Unfortunate Experiment Strikes Again. "The irony that WHA refuses to recognise is that this ideology has led to another ‘unfortunate experiment’ - the medication & mutilation of gender-distressed young people" https://t.co/M4FGeuYXqn

[Women's Rights Party NZ @WRP_NZ]

Australia: Sex Discrimination Commissioner grilled over pregnancy protections for transgender women - #SexMatters https://t.co/tmDJI5aOmr

[Dr Carol Hamilton @kiriceilidh]

The purpose of the NZFirst Bill ‘is to uphold legal certainty, protect the integrity of sex-based rights & ensure that language in law reflects biological reality’

Why would any union want their members to object to that?

[Women's Rights Party NZ @WRP_NZ]

Evolutionary biologist Dr Colin Wright "... a warning about what happens when law drifts too far from reality & begins punishing people for acting as if facts still matter. https://t.co/uFzgaOmtMG

[Women's Rights Party NZ @WRP_NZ]

The National Council of Women doesn’t want to waste time on defining a woman in law. But far from a ‘time waster’ the Bill will uphold legal certainty, protect the integrity of sex-based rights & ensure that language in law reflects biological reality. https://t.co/r9pk5iOtgF

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

Congratulations to @CathyDevine56 on the publication of ‘Sex, Gender Identity and Sport’ the definitive academic study of the impact of gender ideology on women’s sport and activity. We are delighted that our work on UK swimming facilities run by local authorities has been referenced.

The majority of women and girls participate in sport and fitness activities run by local authorities. Our 2024 leisure centre report into swimming provision discovered that only 25 of the 133 ‘women-only’ swimming sessions provided across England and Wales are single-sex. In Scotland just three of the six women-only swim sessions offered across 31 local authorities were guaranteed to be single-sex. In Northern Ireland, NO women-only sessions were provided.

Additionally, 30% of 256 local authorities which responded to the Freedom of Information requests stated there was NO single-sex changing provision for swimmers.

As the recently-published EHRC guidance points out: only offering mixed-sex changing facilities could leave local authorities open to legal action on the basis of discrimination against women and girls.

‘Sex, Gender Identity and Sport’ is recommended reading for anyone involved in sports provision.

Links to our leisure centre reports are in the next post.

[Women's Rights Party NZ @WRP_NZ]

Beyond beds & referrals... "When governments design mental health strategies, they focus on systems: beds, referral pathways, integration models. But what about the structural conditions actually driving women's mental distress?" https://t.co/tzv1zGCKNy

[Women's Rights Party NZ @WRP_NZ]

Submissions on the Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill open until 2 July 2026 https://t.co/eFMls9v5db

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

Why do you think women would attend a women's only swimming session rather than just attend when anyone can? What difference do you think it makes to them if a man in a bathing suit says he is a woman or not? This renders the session pointless. Women who have experienced trauma & women who are not allowed to be around men while undressed due to religion will self-exclude.

[Women's Rights Party NZ @WRP_NZ]

Why is the Public Service Association throwing its women members under the bus? How do they justify their assertion that defining women & men in law will create confusion, & undermine safe workplaces? https://t.co/DWTPapHYXK

[REALITY CHECK RADIO @RCR_NZ]

"And my colleague, the Honourable Casey Costello, had to rein them in, stop them saying, you know: "Pregnant people, people with a cervix, chestfeeders", all of that sort of gobbledygook language which has taken over and erased women and using the word woman." - Jenny Marcroft, NZ First MP @jennymarcroft

If government departments can't plainly define what a woman is, how can they write good policy for women?

🎥 Watch here: https://t.co/x6BCOmSmWN

[Women's Rights Party NZ @WRP_NZ]

The Australian. "Bathrooms, female prisons, women-only apps & women’s shelters would be protected for biological women under a National MP’s proposal to make sweeping amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act." Archived link - https://t.co/OkhaMDkKV0

[Ben Fordham Live @BenFordhamLive]

A new bill is being introduced to protect women.

It seeks to restore the definition of a female into the Sex Discrimination Act.

Nationals MP Alison Penfold says “I’m calling on the Prime Minister to support it.”

Listen to her full conversation with Ben HERE.

🎧https://t.co/jZKCoO7o9V🎧

[Senator Matt Canavan @mattjcan]

Sall Grover - @salltweets - is a brave Australian woman who has been unjustly dragged through our courts for trying to protect women's spaces.

Our current laws do not protect our women, which means our laws must change. Sall is in the High Court right now because our laws don't define what a women is, and do not protect the right to have female-only spaces.

For the past year my Nationals colleague Alison Penfold has worked on a bill to define what a women is in law. Today she introduced her bill into the House of Representatives.

Sall is in the fight of her life to defend women-only spaces, and The Nationals are calling on the Albanese Labor Government help us enshrine that right into law.

We will support changes that reinstate a definition of biological sex to protect women.

[WomensForumAustralia @WomensForumAust]

"Today I stand carrying the voices of millions of Australian women who no longer believe the law of this country protects them…With this bill, we could fix the Sex Discrimination Act and return women's rights within weeks. That decision is in the hands of the Prime Minister."

This morning, @The_Nationals Federal MP Alison Penfold gave a powerful speech introducing her 'Sex Discrimination Amendment (Sex-based Rights) Bill 2026' to restore the biological definitions of man and woman and reinstate protections for women and girls on the basis of biological sex, including female-only spaces, services and sports 💜🤍💚

Given that similar bills introduced by Senators @PaulineHansonOz in 2024 and @SenatorAntic/@mattjcan in 2025 were blocked at the first reading stage, the fact that her bill has been allowed to proceed is progress in itself. Debate will take place at a later date.

👇 Watch Alison's speech and join our campaign calling on all federal parliamentarians to work together to #FixTheSDA NOW: https://t.co/d4QYIneZMY

#IStandWithSallGrover #Auspol @AlboMP

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“In a free society, people can believe whatever they want. If you want to believe men can be women or you’re a man who wants to call himself a woman, that is your business. What you cannot do in a free society is force anyone else to accept it. What is at stake here is the ability to lawfully acknowledge reality.

If you care so much about “trans rights” you can work out a way to get them without destroying the category of women in law, female spaces, sport, services, the entire reality of lesbianism, and punishing citizens for acknowledging reality. The fact that you haven’t even tried makes it appear that destroying the rights of women is the goal.

Any politician who will look an Australian citizen in the eye and tell them that a man can be a woman is admitting that they will lie about anything and everything because the most obvious lie has already been told.

If no one in this room can acknowledge reality and fix an obvious problem you are either malicious or incompetent. The days of dismissing this issue are over. This is not a culture war. It’s reality.”

- my words, read by Alison Penfold MP, in parliament today.

Contact politicians are tell them to BACK THE BILL - “Sex Discrimination Amendment- sex based rights bill 2026”