Welcome to PulsePoint – the latest media stories and research related to family and society that you need to know about – issues from both New Zealand and overseas that the Family First team have been monitoring and researching over the last week. It’s time to cut through the spin and uncover the real issues.
On this episode of PulsePoint:
1. Family First warns about the real agenda behind the Pink Shirt Day which is coming up next week. 1:04
2. Oranga Tamariki has indicated that it’s ready to knock on family doors if parents refuse to let their children change gender. 3:38
3. A new policy guide for schools has just been released to help children dealing with gender identity distress. 5:33
4. The coalition government recently announced the return of the Three Strikes legislation but with some changes. 6:52
5. Younger people are binning their smartphones in favor of a dumbphone. 8:22
You can check out all these stories and more on our website FamilyFirst.nz.
We’ll keep watching the news… so that you don’t have to.
TRANSCRIPT:
Intro: Welcome to PulsePoint – the LATEST media stories AND research related to family and society that YOU need to know about, from both New Zealand AND overseas. Let’s cut through the spin and uncover the REAL issues. I’m Tumby Stowers.
1. Pink Shirt Day is coming up at the end of next week, but many parents are not aware that, while well-intentioned, Pink Shirt Day is being used by activists to politicise gender theory and sexual identity of school children under the guise of anti-bullying programmes.
On the page talking about types of bullying, there is primarily one focus:
Homophobic, biphobic and/or transphobic bullying all refer to bullying based on a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. In Aotearoa, rangatahi who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, takatāpui or other sexuality and gender diverse communities – also referred to as the rainbow community – experience higher rates of bullying.
Unfortunately overweight students, students with acne or a speech impediment or a physical disability, or who are struggling academically, or students from a different culture don’t have a ‘lobby group’ or ‘cross party parliamentary network’. Yet depression and suicide are also associated with these types of bullying. Schools, students, and parents want the focus to be on all students who are bullied.
The main sponsor of Pink Shirt Day is the Mental Health Foundation who are also doing a campaign to retain the radical RSE programme in schools. But remember, the Mental Health Foundation said recently on TVNZ that they aren’t too keen on parents’ rights.
VIDEO – Newshub open letter 6
And what happens to all the Funding?
Pink Shirt Day will “Fund InsideOUT to run rainbow-inclusive workshops in schools around Aotearoa.” That’s gender fluidity and radical sexuality ideology via the RSE curriculum.
Supporting Pink Shirt Day – no matter how you do it – or what narrative you may present in your school – is still supporting a radical sexuality and gender ideology being pushed towards your children & grandchildren.
You can read and watch more analysis about Pink Shirt Day on a recent issue of McBlog which you can find on our website familyfirst.nz
2 A recent report from The Centrist news service says Oranga Tamariki has just signalled it’s ready to knock on family doors if they refuse to let their children change gender. A response to an Official Information Act (OIA) by the Centrist says:
Gender identity is crucial in the development of a young individual as it is a big part of their personal and social identity. We encourage our kaimahi to be guided by rangatahi when determining how best to engage with whānau or family or caregivers regarding their views about the gender identity or sexuality of their tamaiti or rangatahi and the supports they may need to fully accept and affirm their identity.
It also says:
“There may be times where a situation involving a rangatahi [young person] who is actively considering or is in the process of transitioning is facing resistance from whānau that may be having an impact on their safety and wellbeing.”
So according to OT, the resistance to protect a child from confusion, chemicalisation and castration is a problem.
It’s pretty clear from the docimentation that Oranga Tamariki will push a gender fluidity message, and if children don’t get their way, OT, RainbowYouth and InsideOut will be there to practice ‘conversion therapy’ on the child and help get them over the line to chemicalisation, castration and confusion.
The state agency which is supposed to act in the best interests of vulnerable children is focused on making them more vulnerable by dragging them into gender confusion and add to that trauma by separating them from their family & whanau who in most cases will have the very best interests of the child at heart.
3. The Ethos Alliance, a new advocacy and law firm, recently released a policy guide offering a watchful waiting approach to caring for children dealing with gender identity distress.
Central to the guide is how schools should respond when a student requests a social transition like the use of preferred pronouns. The guide is geared towards helping school leaders, school boards, state-integrated school proprietors, and parents navigate the laws and guidelines, like the RSE guidelines around when a child wants to undergo social transition.
In contrast to the prevalent affirmative model of pronouns, puberty blockers, hormones and surgery, the policy guide offers a ‘watchful waiting’ approach. This approach encourages asking essential questions about the child in their specific circumstances before supporting any form of social transition whilst keeping their best interests and welfare at heart.
In an interview on McBlog, here’s what CEO Alex Penk said:
You can read this resource on their website EthosAlliance.nz
4. The coalition government recently announced the return of the Three Strikes legislation but with some changes.
The new Three Strikes regime will only apply to prison sentences over 24 months, Individuals convicted of murder while on their second or third strike will face “appropriately lengthy” non-parole periods, there will be limited benefits of guilty pleas, and the use of the “manifestly unjust” exception will be extended to avoid very harsh outcomes and address atypical cases.
The same 40 serious violent and sexual offences under the former 3-strikes legislation will remain, with the addition of the new strangulation and suffocation offence.
(three strikes polling)
We’ve released some independent polling last year that shows that only 16% oppose the 3 Strikes Law – the green section represents support – 2 out of 3 kiwis 65% – and you’ll notice that Labour supporters and even 41% of Green voters support it.
A key reason for Three Strikes being initially introduced and receiving public support was widespread community outrage at serious violent or sexual offenders repeatedly getting parole and going on to commit more serious crimes.
Reintroducing the Three Strikes Law will protect families and communities from worsening levels of family harm, violent crimes, and gun violence.
5. And finally The Boring Phone is a new, featureless flip phone that is feeding the growing appetites of younger people who want to bin their smartphones in favour of a dumbphone.
The Boring Phone is part of a new trend, built on the suspicion of gen Z towards the data- and attention-harvesting technologies they have grown up with. That suspicion has fuelled reinventions of retro mobile phones.
Nine out of 10 phones are smartphones, and dumbphones remain niche.
Joe Birch, a technology analyst comments: “However, there is evidence of this generation modifying their smartphone behaviour, with concerns around the negative impacts of being constantly digitally connected driving this. Three in five gen-Zeers say they’d like to be less connected to the digital world, for instance”.
A new book by Jonathan Haidt called “The Anxious Generation – How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness” highlights the research around the effect of children changing from play based childhoods to phone-based childhoods, and the results on children’s social and neurological development.
The author will be interviewed as part of Family First’s upcoming conference in July. Go to forum on the family. nz
And THAT’S the latest episode of PulsePoint. You can check out ALL these stories AND MORE on our website familyfirst.nz. We’ll keep watching the news… so that you don’t have to.
See you next time.
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Welcome to PulsePoint – the latest media stories and research related to family and society that you need to know about – issues from both New Zealand and overseas that the Family First team have been monitoring and researching over the last week. It’s time to cut through the spin and uncover the real issues. On this episode of PulsePoint:
Family First warns about the real agenda behind the Pink Shirt Day which is coming up next week. 1:04
Oranga Tamariki has indicated that it’s ready to knock on family doors if parents refuse to let their children change gender. 3:38
A new policy guide for schools has just been released to help children dealing with gender identity distress. 5:33
The coalition government recently announced the return of the Three Strikes legislation but with some changes. 6:52
Younger people are binning their smartphones in favour of a dumbphone. 8:22
You can check out all these stories and more on our website FamilyFirst.nz. We’ll keep watching the news… so that you don’t have to.
