Ken Maclaren: Sport New Zealand’s Transgender Policy - Inclusion Over Fairness and Safety

What a depressing read and document Sport New Zealand’s ‘Guiding Principles for the Inclusion of Transgender People in Community Sport’ is.  

Underwritten by their proposed 'overarching principle' that ‘Every New Zealander has the right to participate in Sport and to be treated with respect, empathy and positive regard. Transgender people can take part in sports in the gender they identify with.’

I have no real issue with the first line, other than every participant also has the obligation to treat sport with respect, empathy and positive regard. By trying to ‘muscling in’ on categories to which they don’t and can’t belong too, trans women (men pretending to be women) treat every other participant, coach, volunteer and sport itself disrespectfully, with no empathy and with negative regard.

Clive Bibby: Who are the deniers?

I have been wanting to have my say on this particular issue for some time.

Contrary to what my critics will say in response, l have chosen to do so now mainly because the evidence in favour of the “conservative” view on these matters is becoming too obvious to ignore.

While my comments apply equally to a number of critical conversations that have been dominated by “woke” philosophy for too long, l will restrict my observations to one issue that is both timely and of interest to a nation of peoples who value “fairness based on truth” even when the popular theory may be the one promoted by the “so called” experts.

I could list a number of these “ill conceived” dogmas that have occupied the headlines in recent times, including the fallacy that mankind is responsible for all but a fraction of climate change. But that would only stir up the hornets’ nest and the accompanying accusations of “denier” that many in this community would love to tattoo on my forehead.