Today we have presented our submission to the government’s Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill.
From today will will start counting the days until all forms of conversion therapies are banned in Aotearoa New Zealand. Our hope is that this page will only need to be appended a few times with further activities to remind the government of its commitment to banning conversion practices and of its commitment to human rights, including all the rights articulated in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which our government has ratified in 2008.
Timeline
- 16 September 2021: RNZ: Autistic Collaboration Trust member Jorn Bettin called for the bill to protect neurodivergent people
- 15 September 2021: Our presentation to the Justice Select Committee
- 8 September 2021: Interview with Zazi Hewlett from 95bFM
- 7 September 2021: Our submission to the Justice Select Committee
- 12 July 2021: Launch of Te Hapori Whai Takiwātanga o Aotearoa, to educate the public about autistic culture and the needs of autistic people
- 11 June 2021: 4th panel discussion towards a ban of all forms of autistic conversion therapies
- 9 June 2021: 3rd panel discussion towards a ban of all forms of autistic conversion therapies
- 27 May 2021: 2nd panel discussion towards a ban of all forms of autistic conversion therapies
- 20 May 2021: 1st panel discussion towards a ban of all forms of autistic conversion therapies
- 14 May 2021: Ban of conversion therapies project, to keep track of all bans on conversion therapies and related initiatives towards bans worldwide
- 26 April 2021: Kane Bassett writes about our petition in Salient Magazine
- 22 April 2021: Our petition for an inquiry into the consequences of conversion therapies for autistic children
- 10 March 2021: Our appeal to extend the envisaged ban
Knowledge archaeologist by day and neurodivergent anthropologist by night at S23M
The more we help each other to question in ways we otherwise wouldn’t – and correspondingly discover new insights about the world and ourselves, the more we are able to learn from each other, and the more we start to understand each other. The gift that we all bring to the world is the (re)generative potential of all the trusted relationships that we co-create.
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4 Responses
The related live-stream, including Q&A: https://www.facebook.com/JUSCNZ/videos/269689958156914/?extid=NS-UNK-UNK-UNK-IOS_GK0T-GK1C. It was very encouraging to hear the level of support for our submission from Elizabeth Kerekere.
I have just ended a seven year relationship with my ‘neuro diverse’ partner. I feel I’ve had to make the decision as I felt I was slowly being annihilated. The description in your article ‘why your Aspergers-neuro typical relationship is failing’ was, for me, a really accurate portrayal. I felt so invisible but also there does feel like there was emotional abuse, I find it difficult to separate what might be ND and behaviour which was actually cruel. I’m sad and care for my partner, he is brilliant and beautiful in many ways but I have had to set a boundary after many years. I’m not sure why I’m sharing this because it feels like our relationship is now so broken it is irreconcilable but I guess I wanted to share it to a forum that was open and not quick to judge.
Thanks for reading.
Gaenor
I need help, IMMEDIATELY! William Shatner, and some of his followers on Twitter, are threatening to sue me. I called him out for his work at Autism Speaks, his degrading of the Autism Self-Advocacy Network, and using the word “retarded” in his jokes. I’ve been trying to find the articles/videos proving my point, but it seems as though archives have been closed, and the vids have been taken down. There’s no way I could pay the millions of dollars they’ll ask. I know I’ll get a life sentence. At the same time, I have no regrets calling him out. Please, you must have some archived material on Shatner’s ableist work and degrading of those who are neurodivergent/intellectually disabled. I receive your daily letter. PLEASE, send me any archived information. I’ll provide a donation if necessary. I just need to expose the proof & truth, to get myself off the hook. Thank you.
Steve Potosky