01/10/2026
This coalition government and the entire anti-choice movement in Aotearoa NZ want you to be afraid of trans folks. What a farce!
Republicans want you to be afraid of the wrong people.
They want you convinced that the danger to women and girls comes from people who look, love, dress or pray differently.
And while you're watching all of that, they rolled back protections for student survivors on Monday and sold it to you as a fight over girls' sports.
Anyone can commit sexual violence.
That is exactly the point.
The threat has never been someone’s otherness.
It is a choice men make, and a system that keeps deciding those choices won’t cost them much.
It looks like a fraternity group chat that treated a drugged student as a party favor, and a university that answered with sealed hearings, suspensions and essay assignments.
It looks like a district attorney who never investigated until the public forced his hand.
Meanwhile, trans people are far more likely to be the victims of violent crime than the perpetrators, and immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than people born here.
Scapegoats are meant to deflect blame and attention.
So stop letting them point your eyes elsewhere.
Look at who is actually hurting women, and at everyone who looks away.
For more information on the case: https://www.thecornell7.org/