IMPRUDENT NON-WALKER

Removal of Trans Inclusion Guidelines breaches Treaty of Waitangi?!

On 24 July 2025, Sport New Zealand officially withdrew its 27 page Guiding Principles for the Inclusion of Transgender People in Community Sport.

By no coincidence whatsoever (on that very same date), the Human Rights Commission published a condemnation of Sport NZ’s removal of its Trans Inclusion Principles. Disability Rights Commissioner and the Commission’s official Rainbow Rights spokesperson, Prudence Walker, described the withdrawal as a “sad day”.

We can safely say that Sport NZ chief executive Raelene Castle tipped off Prudence Walker about Sport NZ’s imminent withdrawal of its Trans Inclusion Principles, thereby enabling Prudence to post the Commission’s pre-prepared condemnation. Safety featured prominently in the Trans Inclusion Principles (“safe/safety” was used 48 times) but exclusively the safety – including “psychological and cultural safety” – of transgender people. Indeed, the Trans Inclusion Principles downplayed the dangers and unfairness of biological women playing against transgender biological men, especially in contact sports involving physical strength, stating “In some sporting codes, a long-established acceptance exists of physical mismatches”.

To strip it all down, it’s the Emperor’s clothes we’re talking about, not the Empress’s. This contretemps is not about biological women (females who want to be male) completing against biological men. It’s about the limits on Dudes battling Chicks. It’s about the physical safety of women coming up against men in contact/combat/strength sports, and about the unfairness of women trying to win against men. There’s stark sex asymmetry in operation here.

I’ve covered Sport NZ’s impregnable Raelene Castle in a previous Substack:

I’ve also covered the early optimism that new Chief Human Rights Commissioner Dr Stephen Rainbow engendered in me:

Prudence Walker was appointed Disability Rights Commissioner and the Commission’s Rainbow rights spokesperson in 2023, by previous Chief Human Rights Commissioner, Pommie neo-Marxist Paul Hunt (spelt with a silent “C”). It was Hunt who sought to force New Zealand into junking the enlightenment of universal human rights in favour of Critical Social Justice Identitarian Wokery.

Our Prudence is an intriguing beast. She’s done lots of laudable advocacy for the rights of disabled people. But, like so many, she’s been gobbled up by the voracious, seductive Woke Monster, with her Human Rights Commission biography including the following foolishness:

As a disabled and queer woman, she comes from a strong social justice perspective

She also has a keen interest in intersecting identities

Ms Walker holds…certificates in Te Reo Māori

According to her numerous public auto-biographical blurbs, Prudence Walker suffered a traumatic brain injury when she was 16 years old and a brain tumor when she as 18 – each of which must obviously have been absolutely awful for her. She moves on a mobility scooter. I can’t find out whether Walker can walk or whether her supposed mobility problem stems from her brain injury and cancer. (Artificial Intelligence told me “Her use of a mobility aid aligns with her identification as disabled and her advocacy for accessibility and inclusion.”)

In its current form, the Human Rights Commission’s condemnation of Sport NZ’s withdrawal of its Trans Inclusion Guidelines states:

The following was amended on 28 July 2025 to reflect the prohibited grounds for discrimination listed in the Human Rights Act 1993:

It is unlawful under the Human Rights Act to discriminate against anyone on a number of prohibited grounds, including sex and sexual orientation. Te Kāhui Tika Tangata Human Rights Commission interprets the prohibited ground of sex discrimination as being inclusive of gender identity and expression.

The Commission’s original condemnation stated categorically that the Human Rights Act prohibits discrimination based on gender identity and expression - implying that, by withdrawing the Trans Inclusion Principles, Sport NZ and the Government were breaching New Zealand’s human rights legislation. That statement was categorically incorrect; the HR Act contains no such prohibition – as women’s rights groups were quick to point out. So, on 28 July, non-walker Pru got cute and amended the statement to that set out above…“Te Kāhui Tika Tangata Human Rights Commission interprets the prohibited ground of sex discrimination as being inclusive of gender identity and expression”. But of course, the Human Rights Commission cannot amend legislation by inventing its own interpretation. Words matter.

Professor Gail Pacheco went into bat for Prudence’s cute gloss on the Human Rights Act. Gail, as Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner and the Human Rights Commission’s Women’s Rights spokesperson, pronounced:

“All people have the right to be free from discrimination, including based on their sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics. This is clearly set out in international human rights law, international jurisprudence, and United Nations treaties that New Zealand is a party to.”

It’s a trite tactic of the Trans Tribe that, if they can’t find joy in indigenous laws, they scour Planet Earth for scraps of support (studiously ignoring such heresy as the Britain’s Cass Report).

The Commission’s condemnation includes much other codswallop, including this preposterous piffle:

There will be particular impacts for Māori, Pasifika and other Indigenous peoples who have always had diverse expressions of gender and sexuality. Te Tiriti o Waitangi affirms the right of tangata whenua to uphold tino rangatiratanga over their sexuality, gender, gender expressions, and sex characteristics.

My greatest gripe with Prudence Walker and Gail Pacheco and their ilk is that they’re traitors to their biological sex. Their crazy crusade to legitimize men competing against women – in women’s sports - is at the expense of, and contrary to the attitudes of the vast majority of, WOMEN. Prudence and Gail are many things, but they’re certainly not feminists.

By all means, Prudence & Gail, fight till all your cows come home for the rights of adult males to dress and otherwise present themselves in whatever ways they like, remove their male genitalia, have whatever sex they like with other consenting adults, exercise, play teams sports and otherwise live their best and preferred lives. But please, just please, at least acknowledge that there are justifiable limits on men clashing with women in sporting arenas.

Lastly, let’s keep in mind that the removal of Sport NZ’s Trans Inclusion Guidelines doesn’t stop any transgender person from exercising, and all sports can still draw up their own rules regulating transgender participation in their sports.

In our less kind moments, do we find ourselves wondering whether Prudence Walker could – with all her ostensible support for exercising - slip in some physical jerks herself?…or even how she’d fare scrummaging against a man of her own dimensions?