A disturbing push to redefine human rights laws, and create frameworks for education and society internationally, has been exposed by Penny Marie, founder of New Zealand parent advocacy group, Let Kids Be Kids.

Strategic lobbying efforts have been deployed in a global push to change human rights laws. In particular the creation of the ‘Yogyakarta Principles’, via the United Nations, along with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) frameworks.

This undermines sex-based rights in sports, schools, public spaces and workplaces. The analysis has shown international funding impacting legislation not only in an international context but also at a local level. "There has been a decades-long multi-pronged attack on biological reality and the family unit,” said Penny.

“International, non-governmental organisations, through government-funded agencies and charities, lobby the government for policies that undermine biology and parental rights.” There are significant concerns about the recent Law Commission recommendations to add gender identity as a protected ground in the Human Rights Act.

“This is not a ‘civil rights’ movement, explains Penny. There is nothing ‘civil’ about them. We mustn’t let the ‘few’ silence the many. It is the opposite of ‘kindness’ and ‘inclusion’.

“People are treated with disdain if they dare to question ‘gender identity’ and the flow-on impact of law and policy changes related to the related community,” she said.

‘Relationships and sexuality education’ (RSE) schoolroom lessons across New Zealand appear to have had little or no changes to the course content, despite the removal by the Ministry of Education (MOE) of the RSE Guidelines in April this year.

“The new RSE framework currently being written is also of concern due to the international documents the MOE are drawing on to develop them”, said Penny. She emphasised the need to protect future generations from what she describes as an “ideological takeover.”

Let Kids Be Kids calls for investigations into DEI policies, ‘rainbow’ charity funding, media bias, and the roles of the Human Rights Commission, Ministry of Education, and Ministry of Health in enforcing these policies upon the entire population under the guides of them being ‘stigmatised and discriminated’.

Penny presented her findings at the New Zealand First Annual Convention in September. Watch her presentation here.

About Let Kids Be Kids:

Founded in 2023, Let Kids Be Kids is a grassroots parents’ network advocating for age-appropriate education and the protection of parents’ rights to raise their children without undue state influence, political ideology in education, or minority group influence on government agencies, which have resulted in the reduction of parents' rights in law.

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