Populist New Zealand First party says bill will ensure country moves away from ‘woke ideology’ harming women.A minor party in New Zealand’s coalition government has announced proposals to legally define women by biological sex, casting the move as a return to common sense and a rejection of “woke ideology”.
The bill announced by the populist New Zealand First (NZF) party on Tuesday would define a woman and a man in law as a “human biological female” and “an adult human biological male”, respectively.
NZF leader Winston Peters, whose party governs in a coalition with the centre-right National Party and pro-business ACT New Zealand, said the proposed law would “reflect biological reality” and “provide legal certainty”.
“This Bill would ensure our country moves away from the woke ideology that has crept in over the last few years, undermining the protection, progression, and safety of women,” Peters, who serves as the deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, said in a post on X.
“These definitions in law fight back against the cancerous social engineering we’ve seen being pushed in society by a woke minority,” Peters added. Advertisement
“The need for legislation like this shows how far the deluded left has taken us as a society. But we are fighting back. This bill is a win for common sense.”
It is not clear whether the bill, which was introduced by an individual MP instead of the government, has a realistic prospect of becoming law.
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