New Zealand’s minor gov’t party pushes to define women by biological sex

New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Winston Peters says the proposed law will 'reflect biological reality' and 'provide legal certainty' [File: Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP]

A minor party in New Zealand’s coalition government has announced proposals to legally define women by biological sex, casting the move as a return to common sense and a rejection of “woke ideology”.

The bill announced by the populist New Zealand First (NZF) party on Tuesday would define a woman and a man in law as a “human biological female” and “an adult human biological male”, respectively.