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Here are our most recent Substack articles, newsletters, and other important news items about gender education.
Use this Index to our Substacks to easily find the information you seek.
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October 2024 Newsletter Inappropriate library books, Children of Transitioners, Billboard Chris on how to have honest conversations, Supreme Court hearing in USA, Stop the Harm Database, puberty blocker evidence suppressed, Mermaids ordered to heed Cass, the Trans Umbrella poster.
Ero dynamics. Our submission to the Education Review Office's evaluation of RSE teaching in our schools.
Interview on the Platform (3 October 2024) about the PPTA proposal to have paid Queer Liaison roles in all secondary schools. (Subscription needed.)
September 2024 Newsletter. Puberty blocker prescriptions up to 7 times higher in NZ, new guidance for child protection in the UK, Human Rights for children in NZ by Genspect, news from Australia, Sweden, and Switzeralnd, interviews with Helen Joyce and Stella O'Malley, a parents' guide from Bayswater Support.
Heads in the Sand In late June, RGE sent an OIA survey to primary schools seeking information that the Ministry of Education does not collect. We asked ten short questions to try to gauge the extent of the influence of gender ideology in schools.
The Future is Yellow Two motions are to be debated at the Post Primary Teachers' Association conference in October 2024 that, if passed, will further entrench gender ideology in schools.
August 2024 Newsletter School Docs corrections, library letters, roundup of medical stories.
Keep gender ideology out of the HRA. Some tips on how to submit to the Law Commission's review.
Our submission to the Law Commission's Issue Paper has recommended that 'gender identity' is NOT added to the protected charcteristics of the Human Rights Act. We do have some other suggestions, though.
Kicking the can down the road. Those whose votes were influenced last year by the promise from Erica Stanford to “deal with the RSE curriculum” must be feeling very let down that the Minister of Education has instead ‘kicked the can down the road’.
Have your say. Feedback to the Law Commission on proposed changes to the Human Rights Act.
Locking in victimhood. A cross-post from the Ministry has Fallen about how trans and non-binary kids are being taught they can never win.
July 2024 Newsletter. Law Commission recommends HRA changes, Two open letters, RGE Guidelines endorsed, Suicide & Cass misinformation.
Simple Questions some schools won't answer. If schools are confident that their policies are the best practice and that they benefit all their students and families why won't they be transparent about them?
Primary OIA questions June 2024 Here are the ten simple questions about gender identity practices we sent to primary schools.
Informed consent is missing in action Rodney Hide’s description this week of the trouble he had to go to to dig up the content of the Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) lessons at his daughter’s school (“Sex education at Wakatipu High”), demonstrates that schools are falling far short of their legal requirement to provide meaningful information to parents on the topic.
June 2024 Newsletter No change in MoE policy, Minister's underwhelming response to Open Letter, new teacher support group, gender a hot topic in the UK election, BMJ supports Cass Review, international statistics show reduced support for gender beliefs.
Another planet sounds inviting The MoE updated its standard for Toilets and Changing Spaces in March 2024, four months after the election. The standard is in complete submission to transgender beliefs and crassly dehumanises girls in the process.
May 2024 Newsletter Open Letter sent, parliamentary events, new SUFW poll, UK update, Unsilenced conference, social contagion video, RGE radio interviews.
Video from the Unsilenced conference held in Wellington on 18 May “for New Zelanders who want the Government to stop gender indoctrination and medicalisation of our children.” All of the speeches are now online here. In particular, we highly recommend the speeches of three of RGE’s supporters: Jan Rivers, Katherine Chua, and Ro Edge.
Andrew Doyle's video explaining social contagion. Andrew is a UK journalist and the host of '"Free Speech Nation" on GB News.
Interview on Reality Check Radio Maree Buscke spoke to Fern Hickson on 29 May about gender ideology in schools and how parents can counter it.
Unmitigated stress A template letter, useful for teachers and parents, to ask BoTs to uphold their responsibilities as employers by removing the stress being caused by social transitioning in schools.
A Roadmap for Schools The Key Recommendations from RGE's Independent NZ Guidelines for Schools.
Independent NZ Guidelines on Sex and Gender in Schools. This fully-referenced, comprehensive guide was sent to schools on 6 May 2024. It provides information, resources, and a roadmap for the development of a New Zealand-wide respectful school climate on sex and gender issues, in alignment with international best practice.
Interview on the Platform Leah Panapa spoke to Fern Hickson on 2 May about the RSE Guide and Resist Gender Education's Open Letter to the Minister of Education.
April 2024 Newsletter RGE Open Letter, Roundup of responses to the Cass Review, Curia poll shows 69% oppose gender ideology in primary schools, Secret transition testimonial, Netherlands study re desistance, Sex self-ID in Germany, Tickle vs Giggle, Rainbow Storytime cancelled.
Open Letter to the Minister of Education. Press release 24 April 2024. The Mental Health Foundation’s open letter to the Minister of Education asking her to retain the RSE Guide is unnecessary at best and mischief-making at worst. Sign RGE's open letter asking for the Guide to be removed and replaced.
Cass on Education. Last week, the long-awaited Cass Independent Review of gender identity services for children and young people was released in the UK. It unequivocally demolishes the core beliefs of transgender ideology. This substack quotes extensively from the Cass Review to assist parents and educators when they write to MPs, principals, or BOTs to easily find the evidence they need in support of their demands for an urgent change in NZ education policies.
Questions of Pride. If your local school is participating in Schools' Pride SWeek in June, start asking these questions.
Press statement 2 April 2024 We call on this government to urgently make good its promise to replace the RSE Guide. Protecting our children from this unscientific dogma ought to be a priority for the Education Minister.
March 2024 Newsletter. The list of countries and states that have banned or are investigating the prescription of puberty blockers to gender-distressed children is growing by the week.
Libraries go astray. Drag Queens reading to children is not a way of modelling freedom, being yourself, or being kind; it is showing children a side of life they are not emotionally ready to understand and teaching them that lampooning women in a sexualised way is normal and acceptable behaviour.
When kindness becomes cruelty. Schools that allow social transition before children have reached the cognitive milestone of sex constancy are disrupting the normal development of all the children in the school.
February 2024 Newsletter. The inflated suicide statistics for transgender youth are based on faulty research and do not take into account the many psychiatric comorbidities these patients have.
The intersex red herring. LGBTQI is supposed to be a slogan of kindness, acceptance, and unity. But for those co-opted into the acronym against their will, it signifies the opposite. So how did they get linked together?
Listen up, teacher unions. An open letter to the NZEI and PPTA, to explain why the current RSE Guide must be rewritten.
Cut out the nonsense, Ms Stanford. Our Briefing Document to the new Minister of Education, asking her to cut out the gender ideology nonsense from the RSE Guide.
RGE on The Platform.Our spokesperson, Fern Hickson, was interviewed by Sean Plunket on 23 January about why RGE supports the government's plan to replace the RSE Guide and the major changes that are needed. [Correction: Rose Hipkins works for NZCER not The Education Institute.]
Jaunary 2024 Newsletter. While New Zealand has been in holiday mode, in the northern hemisphere a tide of caution, clarity, and common sense is beginning to undermine the pillars of gender extremism.
The War to Annihilate Sex by Arty Morty, a Canadian gender critical activist and gay man, clearly explains the gender debate and why the stakes are so high. "The facts simply don’t lie: there really is a crazy new social-media-fueled quasi-religious movement gaslighting everyone into pretending that sex isn’t real, it’s convinced an entire generation of youth that biological sex is some kind of right wing conspiracy, and it’s convinced parents to subject their children to experimental sex change treatments in an effort to prove that their religion is true."
The statistics we are not allowed to know. If we do not know how many students are affected by transgender ideation, which cohorts or demographics are most affected, and whether or not the numbers are increasing, how can our education system provide the care and support our children (and parents) need?
November 2023 Newsletter (Click to read)
Has Christmas come early? RGE welcomes the Coalition Agreement commitment to remove the ideological RSE Guide.
Push back from parents (and others) A substack covering national and international actions opposing gender ideology.
In this 5 minute video, Abigail Shrier explains the phenomenon of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) and its tragic effects on a generation of (mostly) girls. She says, “Schools can and should insist that every child be treated respectfully without sowing gender confusion in an entire population.”
October 2023 Newsletter (Click to read)
Dealing with the Curriculum. Our substack that explains the curriculum, RSE Guide, and how InsideOut and Family Planning fit into the picture.
Consultation – use it or lose it. What are the legal requirements for schools to consult with parents about the content of relationship and sexuality education? What can parents do if they are dissatisfied with the consultation offered?