Opinion
It was Paul Keating who said, “When you change the government, you change the country”. For once, he was right. And uncharacteristically honest, for a politician, in contrast to the obvious lies of the likes of Kevin Rudd and Anthony Albanese, who promised “safe, minimal change” — and immediately proceeded to try and forcibly remake the country to their ideal of a radical left utopia.
New Zealanders are also finding out just how much changing the government can change the country. Even a government as wet as Chris Luxon’s.
The Government is threatening to withhold millions of dollars of public funding from New Zealand sports bodies if they do not comply with a push to separate transgender athletes from grassroots competitions.
The hardline and potentially divisive policy from the Government sets out the agenda to “ensure publicly funded sporting bodies support fair competition that is not compromised by rules relating to gender”.
Naturally, mediocre men in dresses are outraged at the thought that they may be stopped from stealing all the women’s trophies.
However, transgender athlete and two-time national champion mountain biker Kate Weatherly fears it will lead to athletes being forced into men’s competitions or sidelined completely.
Oh, no! Men forced to compete against men! The only reason they’ll be “sidelined” is because, forced to compete on a biologically-level playing field, they’ll be exposed for the z-grade chancers and cheating fetishists they really are.
The media party are joining in the collective flounce, too. Let’s see how many lefty bat-signals a cheap hack can cram into a few sentences.
The policy is led by New Zealand First, whose sport and recreation spokesman Andy Foster says it is “about fairness and safety in sport for women”.
While previous Governments have left sporting organisations to work through the vexed transgender space at arm’s length, the National-led regime intends to tackle the issue head-on […]
the separatist policy […]
Sport and Recreation Minister Chris Bishop was uncomfortable discussing the coalition agreement.
“Uncomfortable”? According to whom?
But if wet Nationals are “uncomfortable”, NZ First’s spokesman knows exactly what he’s talking about.
“It’s about fairness and safety in sport for women in particular,” he said.
“Looking at some of the debate that’s been across different sports codes around the world about transgender people who have transitioned from male to female, particularly after puberty, and the evidence around the advantages that happen in weight, speed, all those sorts of things, it compromises fairness in competitions and in some cases safety as well. We’re saying, for publicly funded sports bodies, we think it’s really important for women to have a clear line in the sand drawn.
“With rugby, athletics, boxing, you can see why power, weight and speed become a real issue. If there’s a teenage girl against a former teenage boy, your child is going to get hurt.”
Now watch the sophistries pour out.
Transwomen who participate in sport amount to 0.14 per cent of the New Zealand population.
So what? That’s like arguing that if there aren’t that many drug cheats in sport, then they should be allowed to just get away with it.
This policy could, therefore, exclude those athletes from grassroots sports because their low numbers would make it difficult for them to form alternative competitions.
NZ Herald
So, they can compete where they belong — with the rest of the men.
But, as we’ve seen on everything from public toilets to change rooms, the last thing the creepy fetishists in drag want are their own facilities. If they can’t get to the women, they’re outraged.
Now, why is that?