Post 9oC4Rrdbf5zU3ukH4K by Boudicca_Marley@spinster.xyz
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 (DIR) Post #9oAaYRpIpoJuFnTnIO by JessSweetValleyHigh@spinster.xyz
       2019-10-21T17:57:57Z
       
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       I posted earlier about trans NZ Police Prosecutor Rhona Stace. I found it interesting the amount of media coverage he had in Stuff ( NZ media ). Not for his cases, but for being transgender. I found one in 2017 before surgery.  I found the linked story below, a huge piece on his surgery. The journalists were funded to travel with him by the Asia NZ Foundation, which offers grants to NZ journalists to Asia, to ‘demystify Asia’. Interesting right? Then I found another article in the same media site in 2018. Broadcaster Alison Mau also contributes to Stuff & included Rhona Stace in a Suffragette panel, ‘What Women Want’, on the healthcare revolution segment in 2018. This is Stuff NZ which repeatedly wrote incredibly one-sided articles about the Feminism 2020 Event run by Speak Up For Women. It’s very interesting their journalists got paid by an Asian Foundation to travel with a NZ police prosecutor to get gender reassignment surgery in Thailand. Only a couple of years ago. Straight into a woman’s panel the next year, run predominately by NZ’s liberal media. The second link is an article in Stuff about who has the right to be designated a woman etc and they have two transwomen featured, including Stace, who as a police prosecutor says “That said, in this instance, the impression I get is that those expressing the views in question are doing so in a way that actually just amounts to hate speech”He featured a third time in 2018 to talk about his chickens in another article by Amanda Saxton, who wrote the March 2018 feature on his transition. Amanda wrote the 2017 article too- she wrote a total of 3 articles on Stace in 12 months. The editor of Stuff included Stace’s pre-surgery story of 2017 as his first ‘story of the year’. That’s the third link below. It’s just VERY cosy in NZ isn’t it, media do control the narrative and with this issue, that is very dangerous. @Boudicca_Marley @Carolyn_nth https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2018/03/becoming-rhona/https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/health/106826722/playing-for-keeps-transwomen-fight-for-their-worthhttps://i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/93719871/becoming-sergeant-rhona-a-transgender-cop-who-has-found-acceptance-in-the-force
       
 (DIR) Post #9oAaYSLYts7lrqZYZs by Carolyn_nth@spinster.xyz
       2019-10-21T21:17:55Z
       
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       Alison Mau has been a transgedner (TIM) advocate for a few years.She wrote a book:"First Lady: From Boyhood to Womanhood: The Incredible Story of New Zealand's Sex-Change Pioneer Liz Roberts" - on sale at the "Women's Bookshop"https://www.womensbookshop.co.nz/p/nz-biographies-first-lady-from-boyhood-to-womanhood-the-incredible-story-of-new-zealand-s-sex-change-pioneer-liz-roberts?barcode=9781927262375&selected_category=26464 Here she reports on the splits in Auckland Pride 2019 - ind of neutral, but the only faction within the rainbow soup that she mentions are the trans and queer folk.https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/110388633/alison-mau-pride-after-the-fall--what-nextInteresting Mau quotes Cissy Rock, the then Auckland Prde Chairwoman:"But what next? Cissy Rock, the woman who admits she'll be "infamous" as the current chair of the Pride board, told me the plan for 2020 will see more groups who've missed out before – "gender minorities, non-binary and trans people" – funded to stage their events at Pride, which until now have been aimed mostly at "cis[gender], white men"."So, the aim is to correct the previous "cis" white male dominance of Pride .... and look which of the groups not included in that dominance, and who don't get a mention as needing to be foregrounded in future Prides?@JessSweetValleyHigh @Boudicca_Marley
       
 (DIR) Post #9oC4IS0nZLXVyj6Y8e by Boudicca_Marley@spinster.xyz
       2019-10-22T19:42:13Z
       
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       Bahahahaha cis white male dominance.... all the cockfrockers will be there, so the numbers will be stable.@Carolyn_nth @JessSweetValleyHigh
       
 (DIR) Post #9oC4Rq6xL0HNKMSgXQ by VulnaviaSpeaks@spinster.xyz
       2019-10-21T19:29:37Z
       
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       Thanks Jess. Very interesting. @JessSweetValleyHigh @Boudicca_Marley @Carolyn_nth
       
 (DIR) Post #9oC4Rqyq6fNg1TfiWe by JessSweetValleyHigh@spinster.xyz
       2019-10-21T19:46:28Z
       
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       I should send this to Speak Up For Women @VulnaviaSpeaks @Boudicca_Marley @Carolyn_nth
       
 (DIR) Post #9oC4Rrdbf5zU3ukH4K by Boudicca_Marley@spinster.xyz
       2019-10-22T19:43:54Z
       
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       YES! Send it to them... it's all about the money and influence. Great stuff!@JessSweetValleyHigh @VulnaviaSpeaks @Carolyn_nth
       
 (DIR) Post #9oC4STSb2TlLMlt1BQ by Carolyn_nth@spinster.xyz
       2019-10-21T20:58:53Z
       
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       Thanks, I've tweeted the links with just this comment:"Stuff, SunStarTimes, the police and becoming rhona2017-8"And in less than a minute it's been retweeted by a GNC woman.@JessSweetValleyHigh @Boudicca_Marley