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Speaker 1: So we have senior doctors going on strike. We're in

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Speaker 1: the midst of a global trade war, not that Winston

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Speaker 1: will let us call it that anymore. We have inflation

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Speaker 1: potentially picking up again. We have a lot going on

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Speaker 1: in this country, not to mention around the world. Right.

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Speaker 1: But there. I was sitting down to watch the news

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Speaker 1: last night and the second lead story was about whether

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Speaker 1: women or people could get pregnant. Fact is, nobody in

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Speaker 1: the story said it was solely women who get pregnant.

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Speaker 1: Casey Costello herself says non binary and trans people can

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Speaker 1: get pregnant too, which is true. They may have been

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Speaker 1: born female, but they identify as something else. Now, the

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Speaker 1: question is whether mass communications issued by Health New Zealand

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Speaker 1: should speak of pregnant women. To make things clear, here's

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Speaker 1: the thing about it. The story I watched included exactly

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Speaker 1: zero of these people who are apparently so offended by

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Speaker 1: the term pregnant women. The Midwives Union, women, the government

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Speaker 1: preferred women. Even Chris Hopkins, when asked yesterday, said basically

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Speaker 1: women was fine for mass communications. So where's the problem here.

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Speaker 1: If somebody identifies as a different gender, then you personalize

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Speaker 1: the message, You tailor the message to their needs. The

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Speaker 1: reason these things rile people up so much is because

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Speaker 1: it reinforces this idea that we've got a bunch of

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Speaker 1: social scientists and bureaucrats with the genders running around Wellington

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Speaker 1: wasting time and tax payer money coming up with this stuff. People,

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Speaker 1: including I'm sure non binary people, would prefer a hospital

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Speaker 1: system that has enough beds and surgery slots to cater

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Speaker 1: for them. Surely that has to be the priority number

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Speaker 1: one when it comes to health. For more from Early

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