Our duty as parents is to guide our children to adulthood – healthy in body and mind.
Do your instincts tell you that a ‘sex/gender-change’ is an extreme solution for a problem which probably exists in the mind? Well, you’re not alone.
Welcome to Our Duty New Zealand, a support network for parents of children and adolescents captured by gender/trans ideation. We believe that no child can consent to off-label chemical hormones and permanent cosmetic surgical procedures. It is our duty to inform and support parents and to work toward increasing public knowledge via awareness campaigns and mainstream media, which has so far been largely silent on this issue.
We know that kiwi kids are being harmed every day by so-called ‘gender affirming care’, many of whom present with other issues such as autism or eating disorders. We also know that a significant number of these kids will likely grow up to be gay or lesbian but, instead, are being irrevocably harmed by so-called “gender affirming care.” We will do our part to help end this.
With chapters established in other countries including Australia, we are proud to represent Our Duty as we build this New Zealand chapter.
Information.
There are many useful resources online that can help provide parents with information and some NZ and Australia-focussed links are provided below:
Fully Informed – https://fullyinformed.nz/
Lesbian Action for Visibility in Aotearoa – https://www.lava.nz/
Active Watchful Waiting Australasia – https://www.aww.org.au/about
LGB Alliance (with NZ presence) – https://lgballiance.org.uk/
Some information is historical which may help parents understand how we got here:
https://www.genderclinicnews.com/p/on-the-defensive
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/129033718/transgender-conference-organisers-defend-right-to-proceed
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/self-identification-new-milestone-new-zealand%E2%80%99s-history
What is Our Duty?
Our Duty as an organisation has no religious or political affiliation but is a group of parents and their supporters who know that the medical pathway for young people with trans ideation is harmful. We support each other and work to improve the provision of beneficial healthcare for our families.
Our mission to help parents does not discriminate. A great many children who consider themselves transgender would naturally grow out of their feelings of gender distress, anxiety and depression – if only left to do so. Some may discover that they are same-sex attracted – and that’s great! If you have a child that is gender non-conforming – that’s great too! But if the child starts believing they might be ‘born in the wrong body,’ then there is a problem. Sex is determined at fertilisation and is immutable – it cannot be changed. In other words, we are our bodies.
We are looking forward to building our presence in New Zealand.
If you are interested in helping: please contact: nz@ourduty.group