McBlog by Bob McCoskrie

In a disturbing display of media censorship in New Zealand, the major daily newspapers have banded together to pull a full page advertisement at the 11th hour. The advertisement asked the question "What is a woman?". We reveal how the media all worked together to suppress this campaign and the resulting furor. We also analyse a hysterical bias hit piece on the campaign by one of the newspapers who refused to run the advertisement.

As more and more parents learn about what is in the Relationships and Sexuality Education curriculum being rammed down by the Ministry of Education into our schools aimed at children as young as 5 years old, those parents are starting to speak up and get actively involved in the process in order to protect children from the extreme sexuality and gender ideology which is confusing and stressing them. Today we speak to one such parent - Kathryn. You'll be encouraged by the simple and respectful actions that she took.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is preparing its first ever global guideline on “transgender” medical protocols to fight the rapid spread of bans and restrictions on “transgender” surgeries and drugs, especially for children. The “guideline development group” chosen by the WHO staff is comprised entirely of “transgender” activists and medical providers. But at the same time, a damning letter in The Wall Street Journal from 21 clinicians and researchers from nine countries involved in direct care of the fast-growing numbers of teenagers presenting with gender distress, say there is no good evidence that medicalised gender change prevents suicide, and politicised medical societies are exaggerating the benefits of these medical interventions while playing down the risks.

Spark and ONE NZ (formerly Vodafone) decided to align themselves with activist Shaneel Lal to disparage "TERFS" - women who believe in biology and that a man cannot be a woman no matter how hard he tries. But what Spark and ONE NZ quickly learnt is that NZ'ers have had enough of having woke values rammed down their throat, and they’re starting to push back. As BudLight in the USA have found out, and even Target and Disney to a certain extent, there’s only so long that companies can lecture consumers before the consumers decide to turf THEM out and stop buying from them.

There was an important Supreme Court decision out of the US recently. In this 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court held that the government cannot force you to say or produce something that violates your religious beliefs. The decision was another good day for freedom, faith and conscience. That’s why the media didn’t like it.

"Sound of Freedom" was America’s #1 movie taking the top spot at the box office on Independence Day. It's based on the life of Tim Ballard who left the Department of Homeland Security about 10 years ago and founded a group that works with local police to catch child sex traffickers in other countries — often by staging elaborate sting operations that it captures on video. It sounds like an amazing movie – but the mainstream media don’t seem to like it, which is why you should definitely go and see it.

We traveled to Sydney and sat down for a chat with Manly Warringah Sea Eagles players Josh Aloiai and Toafofoa Sipley. Both players were part of the “Manly 7” who refused to wear the 'pride' jersey last year. We interviewed them as part of the Forum on the Family 2023.

Chloe Cole is an 18 year old de-transitioner from The Central Valley of California. She started her transition at 12 years old, puberty blockers and testosterone at 13 and a double mastectomy at 15 years old. She is now a strong advocate against gender ideology. Family First New Zealand’s Bob McCoskrie spoke with her in Charleston, USA recently.

President Biden’s administration in the US (like the UN and the EU) is desperate to push a radical sexuality and gender ideology on countries throughout the world. Fortunately many countries are standing up to the indoctrination and to the pressure. One of them is Hungary. The U.S. Ambassador to Hungary recently criticised the LGBTQ+ policies in Hungary. But the USA is certainly no role model for family policy and cultural cohesion at the moment.

A NZ high school teacher has had his teaching registration cancelled and has lost his career after he refused to use the preferred pronouns and name for a 14-year-old student who was in the process of transitioning from a girl to boy. When teachers are mandated to tell a biological untruth or lose their careers because of a flawed and harmful ideology which is ruining children's lives and futures, then you know we’re in a really dangerous place. It is not loving to affirm a lie.

More and more testimonies are surfacing from both teenagers and from parents affected by gender ideology. Today we hear from a mother, and from a teenage detransitioner.

It’s our 250th episode of McBlog 🥳. On the 16th November 2021, we launched this regular almost-daily commentary on current social and family issues, and the audience has significantly grown over that time. We check out the most viewed episodes of McBlog on both YouTube and Facebook.

If I told you that there was a politician who didn’t want to do anything about a law that allows child abuse or child mutilation, would that make you raise your eyebrows? Would you vote for them if they had that attitude? If you were the Prime Minister for a day and knew there was a law on the books of the land that resulted in people being murdered, would you immediately review it and try and overturn it? Most of us would. National leader Christopher Luxon believes that abortion is tantamount to murder - but he has pledged that he will not touch the law if he becomes Prime Minister. How can that be?

Oxfam is a world-wide development organisation that mobilises the power of people against poverty. Well, that’s what they say they’re supposed to do. But they have entered the new religion of wokeness by pushing an extreme sexuality and gender ideology video, and have quickly alienated many of their supporters. But it’s not the first time…

We speak to a mother who challenged her local school board of trustees in a 10-minute speech on their policies around radical sexuality and gender ideology in the school. She explains how she gained the ability to speak at the meeting, and what preparation she did.

As part of indoctrinating a radical and extreme sexuality & gender ideology to our children, there is now "Schools’ Pride Week Aotearoa" for NZ schools being held this week, overseen by the radical and government-funded charity InsideOUT. Have you checked with your school to see whether they're observing it? Children should not be exposed to such political and moral indoctrination by their schools. We show you what content your child may be exposed to, and how you can respond to protect your children.

One year after its original release, The Daily Wire’s “What Is A Woman?” documentary soared to new heights, prompted by a Twitter premiere that featured a dramatic triumph over social media censorship. The tweet of the 90-minute film has amassed more than 170 million views since being posted by The Daily Wire’s Twitter account last Thursday — the first day of Pride Month. And part of the reason it’s gone viral is not only because it’s very good, very revealing, and very funny – but because the left tried to treat it as "hate speech" – in other words, speech they hate. But it backfired. We check out the documentary. And preview a new documentary - “What is a Man!”

If ever you hear about opposition to 'gender ideology', either the person will be labelled a "far-right Christian", or a "TERF" – a feminist who believes in biology and doesn’t think you can choose to be a woman. Perhaps you’ll be labelled as a "Christian TERF" - the ultimate in insults! But what you’ll never hear from the mainstream media and commentators is what Muslims say about 'gender ideology' and radical sexuality being targeted in schools and at their families. But they’ve got a strong opinion- and it’s very similar to yours.

If you use the term ‘father’ and ‘mother’ in Parliament, that’s fine. But if you’re a social conservative and you use the term ‘father’ and ‘mother’ in Parliament – you’ll be labelled “homophobic”. Why? Because they want social conservatives to shut up. Ignore them - and keep talking about mothers, fathers, strong marriages and families.

It sounded like a tough day for Israel Folau at the weekend. According to media reports, Israel Folau was booed while playing for the World XV against the Barbarians at the weekend at Twickenham in England, and especially after scoring. We do a Fact Check on the reporting and make some interesting discoveries. Thankfully, Israel Folau isn’t listening to the media, and neither should we.

Academics don’t feel free to air controversial opinions, according to a survey of academics by the Free Speech Union. Three of the taboo subjects were – not surprisingly - gender ideology, the Treaty of Waitangi and climate change. Academic freedom appears to ‘be on life support’ in our halls of learning. We speak to Jonathon Ayling, CE of the Free Speech Union.

If you listened to the media and to the Disinformation Project, you would think that only right-wing people are violent & aggressive protesters. The problem is that violent left-wing activism has cropped up frequently in the U.S. in recent years, most notably during the summer of 2020, when activists destroyed the downtown areas of major cities during protests around the death of George Floyd. And there was the attempted murder by a pro-abortionist of a Supreme Court justice after the leaking of the draft of an opinion by the Supreme Court signalling that it is positioned to overturn Roe v. Wade. Even here in NZ, we saw violence from trans rights activists at the Posie Parker rally. A new study came out over the weekend, arguing that left-wing extremism and aggression are linked to psychopathic and narcissistic tendencies.

One of the speakers we have at the upcoming Forum on the Family in June is Dr Kevin Sabet. Kevin is the head of SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana) who were very supportive with research when we were battling the cannabis referendum in 2020.The reason they’re so helpful is because many US states have gone down the legalisation path – and are seeing the consequences of the disastrous policy firsthand. Here's the evidence.

We highlight three current cases of religious freedom being under attack in Australia. A Christian conservative MP is sacked from a conservative party for attending the Posie Parker rally in Victoria; a mother is served with a non-violence order for speaking up against biological males playing in female soccer teams; and a Catholic hospital is to be taken over by the ACT Government because it won't perform abortions or euthanasia. No, it's not 1984 - but it feels like it.

When companies go woke, they often go broke. And the reason they go broke is because people like you and me choose to purchase from companies and retailers who don’t lecture us with woke gender and sexuality virtue signalling as part of our purchase. But more and more companies are going woke. You need to be aware of them – so that you can increase your purchasing power and send them a powerful message.

The annual New Zealand Forum on the Family brings together a national network of family-focused organisations, scholars, leaders and individuals. The theme of this year’s forum is “Building a Courage Culture” – not a ‘cancel culture’, and we have an amazing line-up of speaker on key social issues. We give you 2 more important reasons to attend - John and Deb. (Our 3 previous reasons were Walt, Lila and Kevin!)

In a new 'pandemic of bonkers', some parents are wanting to raise their children as not baby boys or baby girls but as "theybies" - what is known as “gender creative parenting”. These parents are deliberately keeping the sex of their babies top secret because they say the children themselves should be free to decide – as they grow up - who they are. The good news is that while the media try and push the whole “theybies” thing, it’s not really catching on to most normal thinking parents. You just can’t quite get around the little issue of.... biology.

Concerns have been raised over the Invercargill City Council allowing anyone 'identifying' as female to use the female changing rooms at Invercargill’s Splash Palace public swimming pool. More than 100 people turned up at a meeting with council staff about the issue last week concerned about the policy. We speak to two of the women who are leading the charge on this issue on behalf of many families.

The headline screamed “1 in 4 US teens identify as LGBTQ". But is it accurate – and what does it really mean? In this episode, we analyse the claim, and show that while sexual and gender confusion are increasing, at the same time, the mental health of our young people is deteriorating - not surprisingly. It’s time we spoke the truth about biology and about the biblical standard for sex. For the sake of our young people.

The American Library Association released a list of the 13 most “challenged” books aimed at teens during 2022, blaming ‘anti-LGBT’ prejudice for what it calls censorship. The problem is that all the books contain sexually explicit content and other offensive & objectionable material. It’s not ‘prejudice’ or ‘anti-LGBT’. It’s about protecting young people from explicit, age-inappropriate, offensive and potentially upsetting material.

Last Friday, the Disinformation Project who specialise in reports oozing with disinformation released a new report which argued that questioning gender theory is a form of "genocide". And despite all the images we (and the rest of the world) were horrified to see on that day in Albert Park recently when an elderly woman was punched in the face, and women's campaigner Posie Parker was assaulted, shouted down and hounded out of a public meeting with police protection by a mob, according to the Disinformation Project, it was the mob who were the victims.

In the good old days, you could say statements and wear shirts that say things like 1+1=2, the world is round, the capital of NZ is Wellington, only women can get pregnant, and there are only two genders. Nowadays, it is almost an act of terrorism (except of course if it’s a pink shirt). And you know how upside down the world is when it takes a 12 year old to be bold and call all of this out. But that's exactly what 12-year-old Massachusetts boy Liam Morrison did.

Female swimmers forced to share a locker room and then compete against a biological males!! Riley Gaines is a 12 time All-American swimmer with 5 SEC titles and was a successful female swimmer at University of Kentucky with ambitions to pursue a dental degree. That post-graduate ambition and her entire life was changed when she was forced to share a locker room and then compete against a biological male Lia Thomas at the 2022 NCAA Women’s Swimming Championship. She says biological men should not take opportunities for success in sports away from women, and that biological men should not share locker rooms with women.

Many parents are not aware that, while well-intentioned, Pink Shirt Day is being used by activists to indoctrinate gender theory and sexual identity of school children under the guise of anti-bullying programmes, rather than deal appropriately with the issue of school bullying in all its forms which we’re all concerned about. Pink Shirt Day is predominantly, and has always been, about promoting an LGBT-narrative. And they have proved our point by who they used in their promo video for this year’s event.

A lot of people believe that as a centre right party, ACT would be a social conservative party. Aren’t people on the centre right labelled as conservatives? Generally they are. But while ACT are fiscal conservatives wanting less government, lower government spending and more accountability (which is a good thing), they are definitely not social conservatives. And that was confirmed at the weekend. They’re about as socially conservative as a left-wing party, and actually don't like your values.

Here’s two recent media reports (not in the mainstream media of course) which will encourage you and give you hope. Most non-western non-woke countries are concerned about housing, poverty, education – you know, the things that matter. Western countries in the UN including NZ and Australia are obsessed with your sexual orientation and gender identity, and the right to kill the unborn children. But conservative countries are pushing back.

Without any official announcement, the Government is attempting to change the make-up of school boards by inserting into a proposed bill that “…every [school] board should reflect the genders, sexualities, and sexes of the student body of the school and within the community served by the school…” Apparently (!) genders, sexualities, and sexes are all different. None of those terms are defined in the legislation. All schools, including religious schools (and especially Christian ones with biblical Statements of Faith and values in their DNA), will come under increasing pressure to have representatives from LGBTTQIA+++ activist organisations on their board.

The UN seems obsessed with abortion, transgenderism, drugs & prostitution. In our last episode we talked about a shocking report issued by international legal experts with the backing of the United Nations which appears to open the floodgates to normalise sex with minors under the guise of a human rights approach. But the report also talks about laws concerning abortion, transgenderism, prostitution and drugs. You'll be shocked by what they're suggesting.

A shocking report issued by international legal experts with the backing of the United Nations appears to open the floodgates to normalise sex with minors under the guise of a human rights approach. It does not actively call for decriminalising sex between adults and minors, but it states that children have both the capacity and the legal right to make sexual decisions. And the report does also not offer a suggested age of sexual consent. Sadly, it's not the first time this type of policy has been promoted.

The Growing Up in New Zealand longitudinal study (GUiNZ) is New Zealand’s largest ongoing cohort study. It is research which is so important and could have significant value – but, it’s been captured by gender ideologues and activists. It’s now even possible that families are dropping out of the study at an increasing rate because of confusing and harmful questioning of young children. In fact, we think parents may want to withdraw their involvement after watching this analysis.

Parents take notice! California mum, lawyer, a self-confessed “liberal-lefty” and long-time Democrat voter Erin Friday is a leader of the parent advocacy group "Our Duty" - an international support network for parents who wish to protect their children from gender ideology. And Erin’s involvement has come from personal involvement in this issue. It was her own daughter who she needed to rescue.

Warning! Do you ever put your children in front of the television thinking that the tv can do some child supervision while you catch up on household chores or prepare dinner or maybe even just have a coffee and some peace? You may not be fully aware of just the type of 'feeding' of radical sexuality and gender ideology indoctrination being targeted at your children - even at 4pm on a weekday!

When companies go woke, they often go broke. Most of us just want to consume a product or buy something without getting a lecture on social or political commentary or someone’s sexual orientation. And there was a perfect example of this in the US recently. The top selling beer brand Bud Light decided to go real woke – and now has a major hangover.

The annual New Zealand Forum on the Family brings together a national network of family-focused organisations, scholars, leaders and individuals. The theme of this year’s forum is “Building a Courage Culture” – not a ‘cancel culture’, and we have an amazing line-up of speaker on key social issues. We give you 3 important reasons to attend - Walt, Lila and Kevin.

There’s a new report that’s just been released which measures how much NZ'ers trust the news media. It confirms what probably many of you are feeling about the news media at the moment– but wonder if you’re the only one who’s frustrated. You’re not. This report should actually be a wake-up call to the media if they want to avoid going bust as sadly TodayFM has just done, but we suspect it won’t be. And we all lose because of that.

During the marriage redefinition debate in 2013, we warned that If marriage is redefined once, what is to stop it being redefined again? Allowing only same-sex marriage on the basis of 'love is love', consenting adults and human rights would then open the door for those arguing for polygamous & group marriage and adult consensual incest - irrespective of our moral opposition. A new candidate for National expressed those very concerns during the earlier civil unions debate in 2003. And for that he’s been rebuked by the National party leader. Other MPs have been rebuked for their views on abortion and climate alarmism. It appears that National is no longer the 'broad church' it claims to be – either lock in step with the woke view or else.

The Prime Minister Chris Hipkins was asked at the post-cabinet press conference yesterday afternoon one of the trickiest questions in the woke world – What is a woman? How did he cope with it? Well, not too well. And once again, NZ is the focus of the international media, for all the wrong reasons.

Last week we were alerted to yet another new sex education programme – which seems to be the replacement for cancelled "Mates & Dates". We’ve investigated some of the content and ideology of this new 'consent' programme called BodySafe which is being targeted at children aged 13-15 years old. Once again, parents should be concerned.

A Methodist Bible college in the UK has hit the headlines for sacking a Christian lecturer over tweets defending a Christian view of sexuality. Dr Aaron Edwards was sacked for misconduct by Cliff College in Derbyshire and was told that for sharing a Christian understanding of sexuality, he had brought the Methodist college "into disrepute." He was also threatened with being reported to Prevent (the anti-radicalisation unit). We meet Dr Edwards and hear his story.

NZ didn’t cover itself in glory with the horrendous scenes we saw in Auckland last weekend with the Posie Parker “women’s rights” speaking tour which was shut down with violence. We check out the international coverage and commentary. It’s not pretty.