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The Palmerston North City Library agreed to host Speak Up For Women’s public meeting, then changed its mind. The council’s decision to stop it “involved a serious failure to recognise the [Bill of Rights Act] right of [Speak Up For Women] and its members”, he said. The group has been criticised as anti-transgender, but it rejects this. Friday’s High Court judgment said the group believed the Government’s proposal to pass the bill into law later this year would have significant implications for women and girls, particularly their rights to single-sex spaces, such as changing rooms, hostels and prisons.
BBC Pride activists demand right to vet transgender news stories
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