Four years ago, in this very publication, I made a prediction that a Māori women’s rights activist in New Zealand would be arrested for her words as a direct result of the progressive polices of the Ardern government.

That activist’s name is Rex Landy, and her situation is much worse than I predicted.

In 2021 when I was writing about the feminist push against the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Registration Bill, in New Zealand, I talked about a spate of ‘progressive’ legislation the Ardern government was passing to the detriment of the freedom of New Zealanders.

I mentioned that women’s rights activist Rex Landy, had made a streamed submission to a ‘consultation’ process, arguing against sex self ID legislation. The submission was uploaded to YouTube and it made Rex a bit of a star in the gender-critical activist community.

I suggested that one of the problems with the legal fiction of changing birth certificates is that, when coupled with hate crime laws, ‘people like Rex Landy will be arrested for her heretical opposition to the belief in human gender souls’.

In an interview with Rex Landy, Reduxx reported this week that Rex Landy was arrested in December after being reported by a trans identified man for not respecting his legal sex. Rex allegedly failed to scrub all her social media in accordance with an order, amidst a personal tragedy, and ‘police raided Landy’s home and arrested her’. Rex Landy claims the remaining posts were an omission, but she was charged with ‘failing to obey a Harmful Digital Communications Act order’.

According to Reduxx, ‘On September 18, just one day before she was ordered to appear in court, Landy was hit with yet another count of failing to obey a Harmful Digital Communications Act.’ Rex Landy will next appear in court on December 16, and ‘faces three months in jail or a $50,000 fine’.

I am not a futurist, a mentalist, or a fortune teller. Everyone knew what the consequences of gender identity legislation would be, because the sanctioning of women for recognising a man past a trans identity, was always the intention of gender identity legislation, and some women were never going to submit, and Rex was always going to be one of those women.

The progressive laws of leaders like Ardern and Albanese, come from UN population management templates that former British Empire colonies like New Zealand, Canada, and Australia have been particularly vulnerable to. Unicameral parliaments like New Zealand and Queensland have created the most radical sex denial legislation, in combination with sham consultation processes.

The almost identical Queensland legislation was heavily relied on by the Australian Human Rights Commission to push for a judgment against Sall Grover recently. The former British colonies are the true Petri dish of progressive colonialism. As The Who put it ‘meet the new boss, same as the old boss’.

Rex Landy is a member of Mana Wāhine Korero, an organisation that stands in ‘opposition to the appropriation and abuse by Critical Social Justice ideologues of our wahine, our Tamariki and of our culture, our language and our history’. The women of Mana Wāhine Korero vehemently oppose the New Zealand government and intelligentsia’s claims that gender identity ideology is embedded in Māori and Pacific Islander tradition.

There is plenty of evidence Mana Wāhine Korero and others have provided for the absolute authority of sex as an important human attribute in their culture, and in the organisation of their cultural spaces. But just like nobody believes anyone can change sex, nobody really believes that Māori and Pacific Islander traditions ever included pretending that men can change sex with paperwork. Nobody believes that Māori and Pacific Islander traditions include a punishment for women who don’t recognise men with special paperwork as literal women. Nobody believes that Māori and Pacific Islander traditions call for the punishing of Māori women who dissent to colonial law, by locking them up with the men who have the special paperwork. If any of this were the case, a movie could be made about Māori culture that is even more terrifying than Once Were Warriors.

I spoke to Mana Wāhine Korero this week, and they fully acknowledged that Rex is guilty of being ‘saltier than Lot’s wife’, a statement made me feel surprisingly sad.

I know I will upset the anti-Woke, but to look at the situation of Rex Landy separate from her race and her sex is impossible. It is not that white women are not being targeted; we know they are from the Sall Grover and Kirralie Smith cases. It’s the injustice and cruelty of native people being targeted with ideologies cooked in the same institutions that once tried to erase them, institutions that now profess to wield the political capital of the struggle of native people in ‘social justice’ ideologies.

The outworking and reality of international population sex denial experiments is steeped in such stifling cruelty and hypocrisy that you would have to hold your nose very tightly to walk past the racism and misogyny in them. This is especially true, if you have an old-fashioned social justice education like I do.

I prefer the old social justice, the way that Ricky Gervais prefers the ‘old women’, the ones who don’t have ‘beards and cocks’. Rex doesn’t say anything ruder than what Ricky Gervais has said, and she is funnier than most comedians, not necessarily Ricky. Rex is not just guilty of being salty; she is guilty of being salty towards a man while being Māori, a woman, and not wealthy.

Gervais gets to fly in a private jet and live in his massive house with his cat, something that I applaud him for, but Rex Landy has to furiously scrub her social media like Lady Macbeth, and is facing the very real prospect of Christmas in prison, a prison disproportionally populated with Māori and Pacific Islander women, and thanks to Ardern, a prison that is inclusive of trans identified male sex offenders.

Canada, Australia, and New Zealand all now include male sex offenders in the female prison populations in contravention of the Nelson Mandela Rules. It is now impossible to legally distinguish between men and women in institutions, because institutions judge danger by policy, not by sight, like the ‘old women’ do.

In her submission to the sham consultation process, to the sex self ID legislation, Rex mocked the concept of ‘dead naming’ (where a person uses the birth name of a trans identified man), saying ‘you’re not dead bro, you’re a man in a dress’.

This kind of deadpan humour is very common in Māori and Islander communities. Like most people in South East Queensland, I’ve grown up close to Māori and Islander communities. In another life, I owned a transport company and probably half of my staff were Māori and Pacific Islanders, both blue and white collar.

I’ll tell you a few things for free. I don’t know if Māori and Pacific Islanders believe in gender fairies, but their humour is often sharp and sometimes brutal. Like in an Irish family, where I am from, you’d better not take yourself too seriously at a family gathering in the Pacific Islands. If you can protect your feelings a bit, Māori and Pacific Islander people are among the funniest people I’ve ever known. When they want to put on a performance and tell you a story or a bit of truth, like Rex does, you can rely on being thoroughly entertained.

I believe Māori women have a right, as all women do, to be very rude and very salty. Nobody has ever died from a rude, salty woman; plenty of women have been killed by men.

It wasn’t sophistry to predict that a salty Māori woman like Rex was going to fall shy of Aderns’ policies, I won’t be giving you a tip for the Cup in November.

If New Zealand are going to imprison a Māori woman for criticising gender identity, we need to consider the situation of Rex Landy, as well as those of many women I have written about, as proof that the UN-driven gender law experiments are a targeted assault on the most vulnerable of women in former British colonies.

Government turning men into women with paperwork does not turn men into women. Women will continue to dissent to this nonsensical ideology. In my opinion, gender identity ideology is not just colonialist, it is rape culture, it is racist, and it is both illiberal and undemocratic.

To give the last word to the Māori and Pacific Islander women at Mana Wāhine Korero; ‘Mana Wāhine Korero will never capitulate to this cult. This IS second wave colonisation and we fear Māori will not survive this medical death cult.’

Edie Wyatt has a BA Hons from the Institute of Cultural Policy Studies and writes on culture, politics and feminism. She tweets at @msediewyatt and blogs on substack