Philip Crump: Winds of Change: Defining Woman and Sex

After years of rancour and division, political leaders in the UK and NZ have welcomed developments in both countries that bring clarity to the gender debate.

A storm of headlines erupted on April 16 when the UK Supreme Court ruled that ‘woman’ in the Equality Act means biological female and ‘sex’ refers to biological sex, not gender identity as set out in a gender recognition certificate. It undoubtedly marks a pivotal moment in the wider gender debate.

Penn Raine: No woman, no cry

Last Tuesday Jonathan Ayling, of the Free Speech Union, met with the Assistant Commissioner of Police to discuss why a previous undertaking to cease Non-Criminal Hate Incident (NCHI) police training has been reneged on and is continuing despite there being no law to support it.

The outline of the extensive training manual can be found on the NZ Police home page (Advice and Services/Advice for victims/Hate motivated crime/The Weave). There is plenty in these pages to shock, not least the clarification of ‘hate/hostility’ which, according to NZ Police is the same as ‘bias/prejudice’. Notice ‘hate’ is equated with ‘bias’ which no dictionary would consider as synonymous but according to the police manual would allow mere negative feelings to be categorised as a stronger and more dangerous emotion.