HeyJaredTHE MINISTRY HAS FALLEN
Left-wing, feminist reporting from the bogs of gender fundamentalism, Aotearoa (NZ) and beyond.
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What’s been going on this year? (opens the original)
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If you don’t know, I run a New Zealand-focused Gender Action Tracker. The tracker documents attempts to embed gender identity into policy and law (and occasionally some rollbacks). There’s some international stuff in there as well. It comes with links to original sources where possible. You can toggle it between oldest events first, and latest first. You can filter the Tracker by one of eight themes: Cancellation, silencing and slurring / <a href="https://data
The trans activist fundies (opens the original)
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Four and a half years later, and nothing’s changed. This is a repost of my very first Substack article, published in March 2022. It is as good an account as any of the origin story of Garwhoungle and why I started writing and continue to write The Ministry Has Fallen. Hardly any of you will have read it as back then, right at the beginning, I had no subscribers. Most people on the left, like me, are empathetic towards trans people and the challenges that that life must entail. We think all peopl
The commodification of puberty (opens the original)
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Another daft (neoliberal-inspired) argument for puberty blockersIn exposing known harms and the paucity of evidence around puberty blockers, the Cass Review and other studies are making it harder for trans activists to claim that blockers are safe and reversible. It’s difficult now to uphold the argument that kids can consent to something when even adults around them don’t know what exactly the kids are “consenting” to. I mean activists still try. They discredit any evidence that counters their
Not going quietly (opens the original)
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A couple of weeks ago, in the New Zealand High Court, the Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa (PATHA) told a woeful tale of a life-saving drug that has been used without problems for decades being banned due, not to evidence, but to Trumpian style anti-trans rhetoric. It was not about medicine, said PATHA, but about identity. PATHA quoted families, surveys, and doctors all saying a ban was going to cause harm to the trans community. All the official advice provided by the Mi
Puberty blocker ban hearing in the NZ High Court (opens the original)
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The hearingContextFrom Monday to Wednesday of this week (13-15 July 2026) the High Court heard presentations from Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa (PATHA) and Health Minister Simeon Brown on the matter of the Minister’s decision to ban all new puberty blockers prescriptions for those with gender incongruence related issues. The hearing was the result of PATHA’s request for a judicial review of the decision: judicial reviews deal with whether a decision was constitutional.
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