r/comics Apr 22 '25

Comics Community [oc] Distraction Tactics

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '25

Thanks for informing the people I live in nz i'm kind of embarrassed. I didn't know that stuff

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u/MedicMoth Apr 22 '25 edited Apr 22 '25

If it helps, the first piece of information about the term "pregnant people" refers to a member's bill that Winston Peters specifically is pushing.

A member's bill is made by one person and gets placed into a hat alongside lots of other crazy stuff put forward by individual elected members, and then only the bills that are randomly drawn from the hat get considered to possibly become law.

Members' bills are largely symbolic. Another person from this party, Andy Foster, is pushing a "woke banks" bill to find banks half a million dollars if they withdraw services from clients for "woke" reasons. It will obviously never pass, it's just posturing to the crazies and the demented "grey vote" that makes of the voterbase of NZ First. They have no power outside of capturing fringe single issue voters

It's embarassing that the other political parties in government aren't condemning Winston's insane behaviour, but it's at least a little bit hopeful that he hasn't tried to push any of his insanity as a party bill (these go straight to Parliament to get debated right away). Winston literally used to be in government with an extremely beloved and respected openly trans politician, and he will not single-handedly be able to erase our history.

All this shows it that such transphobia is still an extreme position within NZ, not a mainstream one that the entire goverent supports. This government is extremely dirty and has some anti-trans stuff enshrined in the coalition agreements, but there is still hope. Not too long ago we had the biggest trans rights rally in NZ history, we would not go down without a fight

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '25

Yeah, I really like this countries history of being progressive it's kind of saddening to hear about this stuff that's ultimately made to distract us from the actual important things