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HATE SPEECH LAWS APPEAR TO BE COMING DOWN THE PIPELINE AGAIN!
The Law Commission has put together a discussion paper examining whether people who identify as transgender, non-binary or have innate variations of sex characteristics (intersex) should be included as a protected class under Section 21 of the Human Rights Act 1993.
This paper will form the basis of a report which the Law Commission will put to Government.
If the Government was to amend the Human Rights Act based on the proposals which the Law Commission appears to favour in the discussion paper, it could make it illegal to misuse someone’s pronouns or limit schools' boards of trustees even more in how they present diverse perspectives on gender. It would affect employers, educators and institutions across the country.
Kiwis don’t need human rights law to tell them which pronouns to use. We have until 5 September to coordinate a strong response. So, FSU has put together a quick and simple submission process below so you can voice your concerns on this issue.
Amending the Human Rights Act to make it illegal to misgender and deadname?
Even though this is a discussion paper, we know that there are many activists who will try to weaponise this process and use it to pressure the government to increase censorship.
Regardless of how we talk about these perspectives, the free speech union will never backdown on the claim that kiwis shouldn’t be criminalised thinking a woman is an ‘adult human female.’
there are four key areas under the hra which we’ve identified where speech would likely be controlled if section 21 is amended.Not only would such an amendment contravene the bill of rights act 1990, but it would have serious impacts on other key legislation
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Police Must Stop Unlawful Training
Commissioner Coster,
RE: Unlawful Hate Speech Training for NZ Police
NZ Police officers are currently receiving compulsory training designed to help them detect ‘hate speech’ and ‘hate crimes.’
Examples of such ‘offences’ in the training material include the statements, ‘There are only two genders’, ‘Kiwi Not Iwi’ and perhaps the most perplexing of all, ‘Free Speech’.
Hate crime laws do not exist in NZ. 'Hate speech' is very narrowly defined in the Human Rights Act. However, the examples presented to officers in this case are not only highly prejudicial, but should be self-evidently legal.
‘Free of expression’ is a right enshrined in our Bill of Rights Act. ‘Kiwi Not Iwi’ formed the campaign slogan of the National Party in 2005. To invert this fundamental right by presenting it as criminal is outrageous and suggests a deliberate politicisation of NZ Police under your leadership. Senior officers have contacted us alarmed by these unjustified moves within their ranks.
If this training is implemented as per the module’s own instructions to ‘Recognise, Record, and Respond’, law enforcement in this instance would be enforcing laws which do not exist!
NZ Police exercise authority according to the doctrine of ‘policing by consent.’ Such extra-judicial activism defies this fundamental public mandate by showing a callous disregard for the Sovereignty of Parliament as sole author of NZ law.
12,336 signaturesWe call on you to cease this training immediately.
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'Misgendering' isn't a crime!
Minister Goldsmith,
Despite a clear directive from your office to the Law Commission to not include questions about 'hate speech’ in their review of the Human Rights Act, that’s exactly what they’ve done.
Call it what you like or avoid putting it in sections 61 or 131 of the HRA; if the Law Commission is considering whether ‘deadnaming’, ‘misgendering’, and ‘outing’ should fall afoul of the law, they’re looking at censoring legitimate speech.
Your Government has consistently opposed the development of new hate speech laws and stood for the use of more speech as the best way to beat bad ideas.
Why has the Law Commission so openly ignored a specific directive from your office?
The Law Commission looks primed to propose anti-speech laws. If that occurs, Kiwis will reject that proposal, and hold the Government accountable, just like they have before.
Goal: 10000 signatureWe call on you to reject all advice to include any amendments to the Human Rights Act that would undermine the fundamentals human rights of every Kiwi: the right to believe according to their conscience and to express those beliefs.
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