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Ed Hyde

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he/him/ia 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇳🇿 Tangata Tiriti Whakawhānau Tamaiti a Kaimātai Take Wahine | Obstetrician & Gynaecologist Trauma-informed intersectional feminist 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ally | Toitū Te Tiriti Still masking coz I still don’t want COVID 😷 Opinions are my own.

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Ed Hyde @edhyde.bsky.social · Apr 28

Please consider signing @covidactionnz.bsky.social open letter asking for clear air in schools

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Ed Hyde @edhyde.bsky.social · 17h

Generally mild-mannered @clrenney.bsky.social ripping the government a new one 🔥

Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 5d

#nzpol Sometimes a policy is so stupid it makes you question the very fabric of reality. Decisions so fabulously, almost wantonly dumb, you wonder if we actually live in a simulation. Welcome to the world of removing Jobseeker Support for 18 & 19-year-olds. craigrenney.substack.com/p/a-small-wr...

A small wrinkle in the Jobseeker policy

The government’s recent changes to benefits feel like this: the house is on fire, and this policy is them turning off the smoke alarm and saying it’s fixed

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Rights Aotearoa @rightsaotearoa.bsky.social · 5d

This bill is so badly worded at present, there is no way to know beforehand whether you are breaking the law. It's Kafka-esque.
It doesn't define 'near'. It's amateur hour.

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Media Release: "Discomfort Is Not Harm": Rights Group Slams Bill That Would Jail Peaceful Protesters to Shield Politicians from Accountability

A Government bill that would see peaceful protesters jailed for up to three months represents a dangerous attack on democratic accountability and will disproportionately silence marginalised communiti...

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Public Service Association @nzpsa.bsky.social · 9d

BREAKING NEWS: More than 3,500 mental health and public health nurses have voted to strike for 24 hours on Thursday 23 October for better pay and conditions.

The image is a dark-green photo of a blurred scene from a PSA rally. The text reads: 'Breaking news'. '3,500 Mental Health & Public Health Nurses to Strike on Thursday October 23.’ PSA logos are in the bottom corners.

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David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social · 15d

This just gets memory holed

Quick summary of 28 African countries boycotting the 1976 Olympics because NZ was allowed to go after maintaining sporting ties with South Africa.

First mass boycott of the Olympics, because of New Zealand.

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Protect Public Healthcare @pph-nz.bsky.social · Sep 11

Remember #nzpol the nurses are also protesting for safe staffing levels and not only a payrise

Community health, patient safety under increasing threat

OPINION: Nurse leaders with direct accountability for patient safety are being silenced by organisational policy.

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Rights Aotearoa @rightsaotearoa.bsky.social · Sep 9

We’ve written to Minister Goldsmith, urging him to act on the Law Commission’s Ia Tangata report. The law must make the implicit explicit: clear protections for trans, non-binary & intersex people. Parliament must act—dignity can’t wait. #HumanRights #IaTangata

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Letter to Paul Goldsmith re the Law Commission's R150 - Ia Tangata.

Rights Aotearoa writes to you in response to correspondence you have received today from the Free Speech Union (FSU) NZ concerning the Law Commission’s recent report, Ia Tangata. Rights Aotearoa stron...

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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · Sep 8

I wasn’t holding my breath for a release from Labour about the deliberate targeting of an MP and the deliberate creation of a toxic environment by both media & politicians to the point they received death threats but imo the silence says a lot about who *they* fail to stand up to - and stand up for.

Labour headline: Release: PM fails to stand up to Seymour - again

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · Sep 8

We don’t have to accept shit, actually

Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · Sep 8

The other option is vote the Nats mob out #NZPol

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Treasury warning: Kiwis must accept lower quality public services to hit Government spending goal
Thomas Coughlan
By Thomas Coughlan
Political Editor·NZ Herald·
9 Sep, 2025 05:00 AM
7 mins to read

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Rights Aotearoa @rightsaotearoa.bsky.social · Sep 7

We stand with the Lemkin Institute's call for GANHRI to withdraw the UK EHRC's accreditation. The EHRC has abandoned its mandate, systematically eroding trans & intersex rights. A captured institution cannot be a human rights body. #TransRights

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Statement on the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission: Violation of the Paris Principles and erosion of protections for transgender and intersex people
Released on 5 September 2025
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention & Human Security calls on the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) to withdraw accreditation from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in Great Britain due to violations of the Paris Principles and the erosion of protections for transgender and intersex people. The EHRC is Britain’s independent equality and human rights regulator. It currently has an “A status” accreditation as a National Human Rights Institution (NHRI), bestowed by GANHRI, which is co-funded by the United Nations and European Union. To maintain accreditation as an NHRI, an organisation needs to follow the Paris Principles. The Lemkin Institute believes that the EHRC has violated the Paris Principles, particularly in actions targeting the rights and protections for transgender and intersex people. The most recent example of such actions is the appointment of Dr. Mary-Ann Stephenson as the new EHRC Chair, contrary to the advice of the two committees involved in the appointment: the Women and Equalities and Joint Human Rights Committees.
While the EHRC is supposed to be a neutral and non-partisan public body, in the past few years it has behaved as a lobby group for erasing the rights of intersex and trans people on the basis of gender critical views. This has been explicitly confirmed by the leader of the UK’s Official Opposition, Kemi Badenoch, who posted on X (formerly Twitter): “having gender-critical men and women in the UK government, holding the positions that mattered most in Equalities and Health [...] It was when the ministers changed that everything changed.” One example of this takeover Badenoch shamelessly boasted about is the appointment of Baroness Falkner of Margravine under the Conservative Government headed by Liz Truss.

In 2022, the EHRC wrote to the Scottish Government recommending a delay to the reform of the Gender Recognition Act—a reversal from its prior support for such reforms. This dramatic shift was not precipitated by the appearance of any new substantive evidence. It was quite partisan in nature. That same year, the EHRC issued a statement calling for a “more careful approach” to conversion therapy legislation that would specifically exclude transgender people from protections. Such an approach contradicted overwhelming evidence from both the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Psychiatrists and signalled a departure from Evidence Based Policy Making. Additionally, the EHRC published interim guidance encouraging single-sex service providers to exclude transgender people, significantly misrepresenting the legal thresholds of such exclusion as a ‘proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim.’ It also intervened in the case For Women Scotland v. Scottish Ministers, arguing for a definition of sex that would exclude transgender people from their acquired legal sex as represented by their Gender Recognition Certificate. Rather than presenting a legal position, this argument is clearly based on an ideological stance on transgender people, which goes against the EHRC’s statutory obligation to equally protect all citizens. These actions did not go unnoticed; GANHRI’s reports on the EHRC acknowledged concerns by the civil society groups in the UK around human rights issues facing LGBTI people and migrants and asylum seekers in particular, recommending the EHRC address these issues in an ‘independent, effective, public and transparent manner.’

wrong in law or a breach of human rights. Translucent, a UK-based transgender advocacy organisation, has also begun legal action against the EHRC in light of this interim guidance.
This interim guidance has been challenged, but it has already caused irreversible damage. It has led to many organisations changing policies to exclude all transgender people from the gendered spaces of their lived gender and, in some cases, from the spaces of their sex assigned at birth as well. The guidance dictates that anyone who is not binarily “male” or “female” is excluded from single sex spaces, ranging from public toilets to groups such as a single-gender choir. Again, intersex people are left ignored; for example, it is not clear how guidance would apply to an intersex woman who was recorded initially as male at birth and had her birth certificate amended to female. When asked if intersex people had been considered in this guidance, Baroness Falkner responded that intersex people had not been considered as they are not included in the Equality Act (2010). Meanwhile, EHRC Commissioner Akua Reindorf KC stated in a personal capacity that trans people have been lied to about what rights they had and that there needed to be a period of correction, as other people also have rights. This goes against the EHRC’s own 2022 guidance that stated in Sch. 2, Paragraph 28: “If a service provider provides single or separate sex services for women and men, or provides services differently to women and men, they should treat transsexual people according to the gender in which they present.”
Though the harm this guidance has caused the transgender and intersex community in the United Kingdom cannot be understated, the EHRC’s ‘consultation’ on the guidance provided no opportunity to give feedback on this harm. The original consultation was scheduled for two weeks and, upon challenge, was extended to six weeks. However, it remained significantly shorter than the usual timeframe of 12 weeks

The Lemkin Institute amplifies the voices of these organisations and calls on the GANHRI to urgently review the status of the EHRC as a human rights body, noting that GANHRI’s instruction of engagement with transgender groups to remain compliant with the Paris Principles has not only been explicitly disregarded but actively worked against, with the EHRC prioritising anti-transgender activist groups time and again, and more recently refusing Freedom of Information requests from individuals and groups concerned with transgender intersex rights.
We reiterate the words of our recent Red Flag Alert: there is a transparent attempt to eradicate transgender and intersex people from British life. This is a clear example of the 9th Pattern of Genocide: Denial and/or Prevention of Identity. The EHRC has undergone an institutional takeover and has been captured by transphobic and interphobic people and agendas. As of the 5th of September the finalised EHRC guidance has been given to the Government, there is no guarantee the guidance will be given time for debate in parliament before going into effect. If this is the case, the EHRC will have succeeded in undemocratically stripping transgender and intersex people in the United Kingdom of fundamental human rights and dignity.
The continued accreditation of EHRC as a human rights body, despite being a key player in this attempt of identity erasure, is a disgrace. GANHRI is allowing the EHRC to claim they are fully compliant with the Paris Principles whilst the voice of transgender and intersex people in Britain as well as other minority groups are left ignored. If GANHRI does not take action against the EHRC, it risks its credibility on the international stage and will be complicit in the genocide towards transgender and intersex people. The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention & Human Security reaffirms a commitment to the rights of transgender and intersex people..

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Ed Hyde @edhyde.bsky.social · Sep 5

Definitely a challenging evening for flying 😬

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · Aug 26

New Zealand will no longer give timely COVID death updates. From July 17, 2025, deaths are only reported via the Mortality Collection – a slower process that lags weeks or months. Official counts will look lower, but the deaths are still happening.

Mortality: www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/for-health-p...

Note: Due to a change in the underlying IT systems, deaths attributed to COVID-19 will no longer be reported with the same recency, and COVID-19 attributed deaths will now be reported from the Mortality Collections only. This ensures that deaths have undergone systemic checks and include coronial inquest findings, which is in line with the reporting of deaths from other diseases, including other scheduled Notifiable Diseases. From the 17th of July 2025 only deaths recorded in the Mortality Collection will be reported as COVID-19 attributed. The most recent data in the Mortality Collection is for 2022 which is preliminary - more information can be found on the Mortality Collection webpage.

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · Aug 22

I genuinely can't understand why more 'normie' journos in NZ aren't joining the dots like this.

If you have kids, it's their future this government is trying to strip away. Surely that matters. #nzpol

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Anne Salmond: Who is this Government working for?

On a range of environmental and legal measures involving forestry, the coalition Government seems to be doing the opposite of what people and communities need, writes Dame Anne Salmond

newsroom.co.nz

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · Aug 22

“Who is this Government working for? For the first time in my life, I’ve found myself seriously asking this question, while drafting submissions on an interminable series of rushed, poorly drafted bills that appear to work against the interests of many New Zealanders.” #NZpol

Anne Salmond: Who is this Government working for?

On a range of environmental and legal measures involving forestry, the coalition Government seems to be doing the opposite of what people and communities need, writes Dame Anne Salmond

newsroom.co.nz

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Protect Public Healthcare @pph-nz.bsky.social · Aug 22

Kia ora koutou whanau. Our wonderful Ali was on the latest episode of @garypayinda.bsky.social's The Frontline (youtu.be/MaH4GUyghXI?...) talking about the Pae Ora Amendment Bill and what it means. Go give the episode some love ❤️ #nzpol

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · Aug 20

How Russians got to Kiwis: "In the final month of the Auckland lockdown, however, according to a Microsoft analysis, the consumption of Russian disinformation was thirty per cent higher in New Zealand than in the United States."

And it's bliming obvious isn't it?

#nzpol
#kiwi

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Ed Hyde @edhyde.bsky.social · Aug 21

You’re sweet to say this. I completely agree with your repost comment.

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Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti) @krveale.bsky.social · Aug 17

Oh THAT'S not good...

Flutracking for 2025 is on its way to get higher than we've seen since 2022

A graph from the flutracking website: if trends continue 2025 will cross into the highest peak visible since 2022

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Ed Hyde @edhyde.bsky.social · Aug 20

www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO25...

Collins Admits Plans To Restrict The Right To Strike

PSA National Secretary Fleur Fitzsimons says Judith Collins needs to come clean about exactly what the Government is planning, as mediation and facilitation already exist and are regularly used.

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Ed Hyde @edhyde.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Ed Hyde @edhyde.bsky.social · Aug 17

#NickyNoBoats

Ed Hyde @edhyde.bsky.social · Aug 17

#NickyNoBoats

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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · Aug 15

I’m going to keep saying this- You don’t fight fascism with fascism light. We don’t fight fascism by sacrificing Gaza, trans folks, unhoused people, migrants, etc. We fight fascism by building a strong coalition INCLUDING everyone and fighting for a better world for EVERYONE. There’s no other way