It's worse in New Zealand. Anna Slatz at Reduxx:
A Māori women’s rights advocate in New Zealand is facing prison time after being reported to police by a trans-identified male for her social media posts. Rex Landy, a member of Mana Wāhine Kōrero, was arrested in December of 2024 after being targeted by a trans activist who took issue with her online commentary.
The source of the complaints against Landy is a fantasy author named Daniel Johnston, a man who identifies as “female” and refers to himself by the name “Caitlin Spice.” Speaking to Reduxx, Landy explains that she first became aware of Johnston in 2019 after she discovered that he had participated in having Broadsheet, a women’s issues magazine, suspended on Facebook.
“All they had done was post some quotes of his where he said things like ‘I am a legal female’ and boasted about being able to use the women’s washrooms,” Landy says. “They had to fight to get their account back.”
Broadsheet had warned their readers about Johnston, noting that he “delights in taunting feminists who are defending women’s rights.”
Landy says that Johnston’s rhetoric, specifically that about using women’s intimate spaces, was triggering for her as a survivor of sexual abuse.
“That’s when I realized he could be in any toilet in Wellington, where I go, from time to time. And I got upset.” Landy explains that she later discovered Johnston had been targeting multiple women critical of gender ideology in New Zealand for insult and harassment.
While it is unclear when Johnston began to “identify” as a woman, he first started attracting attention on social media for making graphic posts about his vaginoplasty and use of women’s restrooms. On his now-deleted X (then Twitter), Johnston would frequently make comments about his post-surgical fluid leakage, dilation, and use of women’s menstrual products.
Lovely bloke. See the article for a more graphic account of his "vaginal leakage", of which he's inordinately proud.
It gets worse.
While in court last week, Landy was told the prosecution was not willing to entertain diversion or discharge without conviction because of her beliefs.
“They said I was not eligible because I was in the ‘grip of an ideology’ and was ‘unlikely to change my mind,'” Landy explains, rejecting the premise that a belief in biological sex is ideological. “So this is an exercise in them trying to get me to change my mind.”
She is next expected to appear in court on December 16, and faces three months in jail or a $50,000 fine. Her current bail conditions include a ban on directly or indirectly contacting Johnston.
The by-now familiar story of a bullying trans activist who malevolently accuses gender-critical women of harassment – with the full backing of the authorities.
There's some irony here. New Zealand is obsessed with its Maori heritage, to the extent that Matauranga, the Maori way of knowledge, has been elevated to the extent that it's now taught as of equal value to science – an issue that Jerry Coyne has taken up, here for instance, or here. There could hardly be a better (worse) example of western ideology gone wrong than gender woo, yet in this case the Maori wisdom (ie common sense), as shown by this woman Rex Landy, is overruled by the authorities.
A belief in biological sex, as affirmed both by science and by a Maori woman and her traditional knowledge, must bow before the greater power of gender ideology.
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