Summarised by Centrist
Penny Marie from Let Kids Be Kids exposes how New Zealand government money is backing extremist transgender activism that labels critics as Nazis, fascists, and even genocidal.
Marie reveals that a controversial “Anti-Transgender Extremism” document, published on the New Zealand Police website but authored by a charity primarily funded by government grants, brands anyone questioning trans ideology as hateful extremists.
Noting the severity of the language, she states that the document denigrates critics of trans ideology with “strong words like genocidal, fascist, and Nazi.”
The charity behind the document, Gender Minorities Aotearoa, receives hundreds of thousands annually from government sources, including InternetNZ, Wellington City Council, and the Department of Internal Affairs. Funding decisions are made by an interagency panel involving Corrections, Oranga Tamariki, and the Ministry of Education.
“They give their money to an organisation that produces a document calling anyone who’s not trans a fascist and a Nazi, and it’s published on the police website,” Marie said.
The panel distributes grants from a $3 million fund set up by Jacinda Ardern and Grant Robertson to support “positive online interventions” against so-called violent extremism, a label now often applied to critics of transgender ideology.
“I go back to the premise of being a charity, which I thought meant you couldn’t be political,” she added.
Plunket describes the situation as “a labyrinth of taxpayer-funded intolerance.”
