We’re pleased to see that the Government intends to amend the BDMRR Bill to make it clear that gender indenty does not supersede sex. #nzpol #bdmrr #sexmatters dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf…
This clarifies that existing rights to single sex spaces will be retained. A Birth Certificate no longer provides evidence of its contents: it is now just an ‘identity prop’.
Thank you @jantinetti for listening to women. In this document Jan states “I intend to maintain the policy position that birth certificates do not provide conclusive evidence of a person’s sex or gender.” And “…Birth certificates should not be how a person’s sex is determined.”
@jantinetti the work now remains to produce and publish guidance to service providers such as schools, gyms, pools, crisis centres etc to make it clear that they are entitled to provide single sex services, as legislated in the Human Rights Act and in international conventions.
We hear regularly about women excluding themselves from services due to the presence of males. Service providers’ confusion is understandable, given the amount of misinformation that the govt’s silence has allowed lobbiest to propagate, but it cannot be allowed to continue.
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