Graham Adams: University backs down in sex-gender debate

As Auckland University continues down the path of transforming itself into a seminary for Māori nationalists and others with “progressive left” views, it is perhaps inevitable that it would try to force fashionable views about sex onto academic staff members.

Unfortunately, it made a tactical error by trying to bully Elizabeth Rata, a professor in the Education Faculty. Anyone who followed the fallout from the Listener letter in mid-2021 signed by seven Auckland professors — including Rata — would have been aware that she is not easily intimidated.