Journo asks NZ PM Chris Hipkins "what is a woman?" He can't answer

I absolutely promise you that in the 1990s you would not have found a single politician who was unable to answer this incredibly basic question.

There is nothing retro about world leaders beclowning themselves in this manner, it is a uniquely contemporary phenomenon.

JK Rowling has just tweeted about this. She is a really funny tweeter.

I am genuinely sad for posters who can only fling hatred for someone of whom they know nothing. What a bizarre and unhealthy existence

How bizarre and unhealthy that you cannot see that you are describing the people who gratuitously attacked KJKM and other women.

Don’t be silly, it’s not hatred, it’s incredibly unfortunate that he was unable to answer a very simple question. I genuinely feel sad for him and anyone else that has been captured by the bizarre and extremely unhealthy belief someone can change their biological sex through thought alone.

Actually, if it wasn’t so funny, it’d be tragic. 😂

He was trying to make the point that 'woman' is a social construction.

A body with a uterus no doubt.

How on earth did he figure out he was a gay man if people don’t come in two distinct sexes?
Surely you’d have to know which is which to know you only fancy one or the other? Or you’d be bi?

@WickedSerious

The date on my father's birth certificate is wrong but he was never allowed to change it.

My name is spelled wrong on mine. I went through school not knowing and was issued an NI card with the correct spelling. I applied for a passport at 19 ( in 1989) and was surprised.

My dad said, "Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that, we didn't notice for years."

I asked to correct it and was told no. The passport office were fine about it.

In fact I had one gay man tell me not so long ago that there was a " no such thing as a woman" 🤔 how would that work then? Who birthed him.

On the contrary it seems New Zealand has some catching up to do. The situation there is like it was here about five years ago. It will be interesting to watch it gradually start to unravel.

In fact I had one gay man tell me not so long ago that there was a " no such thing as a woman"

Says the person who keeps on denying my whakapapa…

When ' a woman' is merely a category of human being that anyone can appropriate and then colonise then it is women who are disappeared. When you cannot even use the word 'woman' without having to first qualify it; and when the words used to name and describe the female body and its biological functions are forbidden then it is women who no longer exist.

You don't think it's vital for politicians who say they wish ti protect women's rights are capable of defining the section of humanity they are talking about?

How can we protect women's rights if we can't be defined?

And no. We're not moving on. We're just getting started.

The date on my father's birth certificate is wrong but he was never allowed to change it.

When your existence

We your 'existence' is dependent on people accepting, without question, a false premise or a belief in an intangible 'something' then that existence is always going to be very shaky. Secure identities are built on firm foundations and do not require continual validation from everyone.

Something extremely chilling about this is the word “woman” has now become undefinable, something so opaque that you literally need to sit and study to prepare a coherent answer to the question “what is a woman?”, or it’s become such a politically dangerous topic that everyone knows what a woman is really but are too scared to say it. Both are terrible for women’s rights. We make up half the population and have been oppressed for thousands of years , and now we can’t even get leaders of the country to say what we are ?

I did find it telling the very first word he said was “sex”, but then he panicked and back pedalled so that a woman is anyone who self identifies as one. And of course the sheer idiotic incoherence of such a statement is never exposed. A woman is anyone who self identifies as what ? What is the thing they are self identifying as ?

It’s so weird that he just took over from NZ’s third female PM (only Finland & Switzerland have had more, and only Iceland, Lithuania, Poland and the U.K. have also managed 3) yet he seems to have forgotten what made the previous PM a woman.

If people just self define as women, why so few women PMs? 3/41 is a bit sad, perhaps he should self ID and make it 4?

Entirely different cases.

Names are not based on physical, scientific reality. Sex is.

Sex is binary and immutable, people are one sex or the other and cannot change their sex.

Year or two!

A prime minister who needs to prepare to answer the question 'what is a woman'. Shameful and embarrassing for NZ.

However our next prime minister will almost certainly be Kier Starmer. He's has no problem defining a woman and confirmed it on LBC this morning when he stood by the fact that indeed a woman can have a penis.

This was after he said that violence against women and girls is a priority. So that's violence against anyone basically. If you can't define 'woman and girls' properly you can protect them, you can't produce stats to say you have, you can't produce stars to prove you have made progress.

So those saying 'ooooh how embarrassing for NZ' as if they are stupid (which they are), this is the uk in a year or to.

A name has to be officially registered in order for a birth certificate to be created.

Changing the registered name because or a court order is simply an example of a circumstance in which the official birth records are altered. But that alteration doesn’t seem to upset people who claim the records are sacrosanct.

Oh these "gotcha" type threads are so '90s. Times have moved on in some parts of the world, thank god.

Hipkins is a very capable politician of high integrity. I am genuinely sad for posters who can only fling hatred for someone of whom they know nothing. What a bizarre and unhealthy existence.

Can’t be viewed by the public.

Not all records are public nor should be public. It’s no different to unlisted phone numbers not appearing in the telephone directory.