Carol Bartle is a Kiwi former nurse midwife and anti-transgender activist.
Bartle is a founding member of anti-trans hate group Genspect New Zealand and a member of Genspect’s Killarney Group and Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender. Bartle is an editor and contributor to Genspect’s The Gender Framework. Bartle is a signatory to Protecting Puberty, a petition to ban use of puberty suppressing drugs for trans and gender diverse people, and WHO Decides, a petition to remove trans and gender diverse people from a working group on gender convened by the World Health Organization.
Selected anti-trans publications by Bartle
Bartle, Carol (August 13, 2020). Sex and gender identity statistical standards: Consultation. New Zealand College of Midwives https://www.midwife.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Sex-and-gender-identity-statistical-standards_Consultation.pdf
Media
Women’s Declaration International (September 19, 2022). Carol Bartle and Katrina Biggs – New Zealand – An Update from Aotearoa New Zealand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h14v9OeeOF0
Women’s Declaration International (September 19, 2022). Language matters, by Carol Bartle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0EcvrKc47A
Resources
Genspect (genspect.org)
- The Killarney Group: Meet the Team
- genspect.org/meet-the-team/the-killarney-group-think-tank