Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins has drawn criticism for dismissing concerns raised by the Associate Health Minister Casey Costello over Health NZ’s refusal to use the word “woman” when referring to female patients.
Instead of backing a return to clear and respectful language in healthcare, Hipkins chose to criticise efforts to address the issue—prompting strong backlash from ACT MP Karen Chhour.
“Sometimes the first job of a politician isn’t to speak, but to listen,” said Chhour.
“Chris Hipkins should listen to the women who’ve felt confused and alienated by a health system that refers to them as ‘people with a cervix’ or ‘individuals capable of childbearing’.”
Critics say Hipkins’ stance reflects a broader disconnect with everyday New Zealanders who are tired of bureaucratic language that erases biological reality.
“Women don’t want to be erased as a group by a public health system obsessed with politically correct terms,” Chhour added. “It’s left women feeling disrespected and dehumanised, and I’m glad we now have a Government that is listening.”
The controversy underscores growing frustration with public institutions that prioritise ideology over clear communication and basic respect for women.
𝗛𝗶𝗽𝗸𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻
Chris Hipkins has criticised the Associate Health Minister’s move to raise concerns over Health NZ’s practice of avoiding the term ‘woman’ in reference to female patients.
Responding to Hipkins’ comments, ACT MP Karen…
— ACT New Zealand (@actparty) April 15, 2025
Obviously Hipkins is a clown, a weasel and a moron.
Sadly some people will still vote for him.
Howdy-Doody….a political puppet of the globalist and their agendas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysLl9Bp_Ur8
One question:
Does Chris Hipkins know what a woman is yet?
Hopefully he may have recently put this question to a ‘focus group’.
They might know.
Or possibly of course they might not.
Only after asking his mummy, and on a case by case basis.
Or his daddy, he doesnt know the difference between them
Could Hipkins be any more beta-male, weak, dim, spineless, confused, cowardly and/or pathetic?
Answer: No probably not.
Like another male weasel labour mp once said, “I’m ashamed to be a man” sums up this little pi**ant.
With all due respect, Hipkins doesn’t qualify as a “beta-male”.
If he really tries really hard he may one day become a ‘delta-fukwit’.
Fingers crossed.
Why should he give a s#*t about women’s health when he endorsed the Covid-19 bio-weapon vaccine, and threatened to hunt both mine and other families down for not being ‘injected?
He’s part and participle of the greatest genocide in recorded history. HE knew that the vaccines were unsafe, and HE knew the end result!
https://web.archive.org/web/20200629182631/http://www.deagel.com/country/New-Zealand_c0148.aspx
Never forget the line “everyone made their own decision” to Jabby jabby.
Horrific man/ thing
I’m sure Chris Hipkins can gestate a foetus in his rectum
WOFL…..
Just wondering why women get free breast screening and men don’t get free prostate screening.
You should be glad of this. The ‘official’ figures of false positives in mammograms is 12%. Of course, this really means that false positives are far, far far higher (remember the false positives during the con – the official % vs the actual %?). How many women receive/ed unnecessary treatment that ruined their health, possibly their ability to bear children, maybe even killed them because of a false positive.
If you’re a man, I’d be counting your blessings that prostrate screening isn’t free.
Ok so what you are advocating here is no free breast screening. No free prostate screening?
If its from the government, nothing is free. Free whatevers from government means some taxpayer had to buy it for you. It is a common and accepted understanding that governments will govern to provide Infrastructure, rules to make people safe and regulate in a manner that is sensible. Not with ideology that favours one race or gender or to get votes from pockets of groups. With the exception of the children, sick and elderly, short term unemployed, get rid of the crap handouts and i guarantee prosperity for those who participate in society for the betterment of others.
Labour, the maroi party, greens playbook is pay for votes using other peoples money. Act, National , NZ first playbook is to make business , tax and regulation workable and profitable to pay for the must have s first, nice to have second and not the self interests groups who believe they must be privileged because of skin colour or gender.
good point. no idea. Im not a fan of have radiation on my chest though
Consider us lucky they don’t. Friend of mine died recently at age 100 – with a PSA reading to match!
I followed his example when diagnosed with Prostate cancer and refused treatment. That was twenty years ago. Everyone I know who followed doctor’s orders and had a variety of treatments including prostatectomy are gone and I’m still fully functionibg, no symptoms, no discomfort.
Chippie the mysoginist ginger
AH extraordinaire
Maybe King AH
King rat for sure
Despicable low life hoop greaser self serving pitiful excuse for a human being
Has inflicted much pain misery and suffering
Never forced anybody to get vaccinated
That’s a good one
If you want to know where all this pregnant people crap is coming from do some research on Dr George Parker at Victoria University. First off don’t be fooled by the title and name. It is not a doctor of medicine nor is It a man by any stretch of the imagination.
Four years ago this ‘queer non binary whatever’ was lead researcher awarded $178,513 by the Health Research Council of New Zealand (Crown Agency) to study “Understanding the need for trans and non-binary inclusive maternity care”. You can’t make this s#it up.
I have no time whatsoever, for National but it is interesting that Labour UK and Labor Australia are the one’s who ushered in hate speech laws, in both nations (not that the Liberals in AU supported free speech as a basic inalienable right either, voting down a move for free speech by their Libertarian party). The message here is no less clear. Vote for globalist fools and you will be mired in political correctness you cant question, without risking serious jail time (up to 5 years in AU).
Typical to form a couple of years ago our nothing left in the tank ex PM was lecturing in the States about free speach and weapons of war.
Change one letter “T” to “B”. And then you have the truth. There was nothing left in the bank. She had wasted all that money on ideology and now everone went poor. Empty shops, business bankruptcies, closing down. Very little work. Violence up, divorce rate up. Suicide up. What a bitch of a PM. A lesson for everyone. You cant take take take. You must make make make. Sharing someone’s income temporarily is OK but not to that degree. Unqualified incompetent idiot.
Look at his eyes, black souless eyes, he sold is soul somtime ago like so many in power.
Not only does Hipkins not know what a Woman is , he also seems to have forgotten what a Cuck is supposed to do.
Bonkers!
Chippie is a WEF globalist puppet. Erasure of family values.
Is his mother not a woman ????
How will he explain that to her, shameless little rat !!!
a woman