research

  • Pair of eyes glaring from the dark forest

    Conversion practices prohibition law: A Wolf in Wolf's Clothing

    Jan Rivers explains how the controversial law came into being and details some of its impacts and dangers.

    Following a record 106,000 submissions, oral hearings conducted at breakneck speed, with sometimes as few as two MPs present, the New Zealand Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill was presented  for its second reading on 8 February as the first item of business for 2022 and was passed into law a week later.

    Read the full article here.

  • Holly Lawford-Smith

    Should women have the right to exclude transwomen from women-only spaces?

    Holly Lawford-Smith from the University of Melbourne thinks we do. In this paper, Holly argues that biological sex matters politically, and should be protected legally. She explains the rationales for women-only spaces, listing prisons, changing rooms, bathrooms, shelters, and many others. Her arguments make a strong case against self-identification as the basis for legal sex. Read the full paper here.

  • Front page of Sex Gender and Womens Rights article

    New Zealand article with international significance

    This article explores the tensions between women’s sex-based human rights and the claims of transgender advocates. In so doing, it discusses the nature and implications of gender ideology and highlights the failure of public sector institutions, in embracing key tenets of this ideology, to follow well-established policymaking processes. Read the article.

  • Lesbians at Ground Zero study

    Important study by "Get the L Out"

    A sobering study done by the UK group “Get the L Out” is Lesbians at Ground Zero - How transgenderism is conquering the lesbian body. Download the study and its findings and/or buy a printed copy.

  • eye peering out of the dark

    What they do in the shadows

    Authors Jan Rivers and Jill Abigail have undertaken the painstaking work of examining the capture of the New Zealand Government - a capture that has occurred almost without notice and in the absence of legislation. This important article outlines the New Zealand situation and the unintended impacts of the adoption of gender ideology on government.

    Part One of this two-part article describes the rapid implementation of gender ideology inthe New Zealand public sector.

    Part Two shows the seeping of gender ideology into institutions such as the Human Rights Commission, the Ministry for Women, Statistics New Zealand, and the Ministry of Social Developments.

    Both parts are published on Public Good Aotearoa.