Tag: Craig Young
Craig Young questions our legal system's response to drug and alcohol-fuelled crime and asks whether enough detox and rehab programmes are being funded.
My friend Stan Waipouri (1968-2006) didn't make it to forty. He was murdered by two polydrug users, Ashley Arnopp and Andre Gilling, who were sentenced to imprisonment...
Craig Young believes we are starting to see the legislative and judicial inclusion of people in non-monogamous relationships in New Zealand.
Content warning: This article describes references to sexual assault.
The Health and Disability Commission has just named a counsellor involved in an unsatisfactory and disrespectful attitude toward a woman in...
'Deviant' was once a term aimed at New Zealand's rainbow communities, Craig Young now sees the same groups aiming it at our homeless and impoverished, and asks 'who's side are you on?'
What does 'deviance' mean in early twenty-first century Aotearoa?
It's been nearly forty years since male homosexuality was decriminalised...
In an election where many voters turned away from the major parties, New Zealand's fringe micro-parties still failed to gain any traction with their anti-vaccine and anti-trans rights platforms. Craig Young hopes this will show wannabe politicians it is time to move away from bashing the trans community.
Well, our...
The Human Rights Act (Prohibition of Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity, or Expression and Variations of Sex Characteristics) Amendment Bill is due for its first parliamentary reading.
It is imperative that this legislation succeeds, given that trans people have only the 'second class' antidiscrimination status of inclusion...
