{"id":71241,"date":"2025-04-22T14:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T05:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/22\/new-zealand-first-party-members-bill-gender-definition"},"modified":"2025-04-22T14:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T05:44:14","slug":"populist-party-in-new-zealand-introduces-bill-to-define-gender-as-biological","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71241","title":{"rendered":"Populist party in New Zealand introduces bill to define gender as biological"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand First member\u2019s bill is a long shot to become law as it has to be selected at random from a ballot and then garner majority support<\/p>\n<p>A populist party in New Zealand\u2019s governing coalition has introduced a bill to parliament that if enacted would define women and men by their biology, preventing trans women and men being recognised by law.<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand First member\u2019s bill is a long shot to become law as it has to be selected at random from a ballot and then garner majority support in parliament.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/22\/new-zealand-first-party-members-bill-gender-definition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand First member\u2019s bill is a long shot to become law as it has to be selected at random from a ballot and then garner majority supportA populist party in New Zealand\u2019s governing coalition has introduced a bill to parliament that if enacted &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71242,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71241\/revisions\/71242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}