"[The government] have specifically excluded the best expertise available to them. And they will make whatever decision they choose to make with no oversight and apparently no requirement to be guided by evidence.
This process is discriminatory, already doing harm, and has the potential to do massive and irreversible damage to a generation of trans children."
@chopsstephens And they are doing it to score points with the worst sort of people. The same people who say Māori "ought to be grateful for the arrival of civilisation" and that disabled folk "should just get out the way."
We may as well admit that we are being governed by fascists. There's no use dancing around the description...they are doing the same things as dictators in Russia, Hungary, and (soon) the US.