Amos, Andrew James (2025) The RANZCP should reconsider its political position on sex and gender. Australasian Psychiatry, 33 (4). pp. 606-608.

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In a media release titled Psychiatrists reject proposed Member’s Bill targeting trans and gender-diverse New Zealanders, the RANZCP President asserted that a bill seeking to amend NZ law to define woman and man in law as adult human biological female and adult human biological male ‘will only deepen…harms [to] intersex, trans and gender diverse people in Aotearoa’.

The release provides no evidence that the bill does anything other than enshrine in legislation the universally understood, if not universally accepted, common meaning of the words woman and man, based on the reality that human biology is the direct and phenotypically immutable result of reproduction generated by two dimorphic sexes.5 In particular, it provides no evidence that enshrining these common definitions in law will cause harm, because no such evidence exists.

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