by Beth Holmes | Jun 29, 2023 | Civil Rights, Education, Homophobia, International, LGBTQIA+ Youth, Power LGBT, Religion, Transgender
A New Zealand teacher has been banned from teaching after refusing to respect the name and pronouns of a transgender student. The teacher, whose name has been withheld from the media, taught math in high school, and was reported in February by a 14-year-old student....
by Beth Holmes | Feb 21, 2022 | Civil Rights, Equality, Gay and Lesbian, Gender, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, News, Power LGBT, Queer Community, Sexuality, Transgender
Conversion practices are to be banned in New Zealand, after the third and final reading of a bill first proposed in 2018. The bill, which passed with 112 votes for, and 8 against, will still need to be signed off by New Zealand’s Governor-General for Royal...
by Beth Holmes | Aug 2, 2021 | Civil Rights, Gay and Lesbian, Homophobia, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+ Youth, Politics
New Zealand is the latest country to take a hard look at conversion therapy, with new legislation introduced to ban the practice. When Jacinda Ardern ran for her second term as New Zealand’s Prime Minister in 2020, ending conversion therapy for minors was one of...
by admin | Feb 24, 2021 | Featured, Health
New Zealand is unquestionably a first-world country, similar in income and GDP to the United States. Despite this, education officials estimate that one in twelve students miss school occasionally due to lack of access to period products. “I would see so many young...
by admin | Apr 20, 2018 | Featured, Gay and Lesbian
In New Zealand, homosexual activity between males was illegal until 1986. That’s recent enough that there are plenty of men alive today with convictions related to it, criminal records that follow them today, more than 30 years later. While records are...
