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Ro Edge: Save Women's Sport Australasia NZ Spokesperson on NZ First's bill aiming to legally define gender
New Zealand’s new bill is finding support from a women’s sport advocacy group.
The new bill wants to codify sex-based language, defining a woman as an “adult human biological female” and a man as an “adult human biological male”.
It comes as Britain’s Highest Court ruled that only biological women —not trans women— meet a definition of a woman under equity laws.
Save Women’s Sport Australasia NZ Spokeswoman Ro Edge told Francesca Rudkin the bill is a protection for the sex-based rights of women.
She says all it does is reinforce the urgent need for the likes of Sport New Zealand to prioritise…
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