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Linde Rose vs. transgender people

Linde Rose is a therapist based in Aotearoa New Zealand and an anti-transgender activist. Rose is affiliated with anti-trans hate group Genspect.

Background

Linde Rose earned a master’s degree and offered therapy for about 35 years before retiring.

In 2023, Rose ran for Parliament as the anti-trans Women’s Rights Party candidate. Rose lost on October 14, 2023.

Anti-trans activism

In 2023, Rose was announced as a participant in a Genspect webinar promoting their anti-trans alternative to the WPATH Standards of Care titled The Gender Framework. Rose did not end up attending, according to Jan Rivers:

“In one incident, information from a post on the “Connect” forum was leaked, by a member, to a well-known trans-activist who made a complaint (and published it on ”X”) about the member when she advertised the Genspect NZ conference in 2023. That effectively precluded her participation in the conference because of threats that the activist would wreck her career. The visibility of this punishment naturally ensured that others did not dare to say more.”

In late 2023, Rose signed the anti-trans WHO Decides petition.

Rose stated:

As a woman who believes that there are only two biological sexes and that the ‘experience of gender’ should not and cannot override physical and genetic ‘sex ‘, I know that being able to protest about these issues and to not be forced to call a male ‘she’, when it is obvious they are not, (especially when they invade women’s spaces and take over women’s sporting events) is important. It is only by being able to defend the spaces and rights of women and girls that we can maintain our right to be a distinct category of being and that should be deemed to be “hate speech: or “Bullying and Harassment” but rather a valid protest about our boundaries being violated.

References

Genspect New Zealand; Rivers, Jan (December 7, 2024). Has the Association of Psychotherapists Aotearoa New Zealand (APANZ) forgotten what psychotherapy is for? Inspecting Gender https://genspect.substack.com/p/has-the-association-of-psychotherapists

Genspect (July 10, 2023). WEBINAR: Best Practice in Gender Care: Introducing the Genspect Gender Framework in New Zealand. https://genspect.org/webinar-best-practice-in-gender-care-introducing-the-genspect-gender-framework-in-new-zealand/

Selected anti-trans writing by Rose

Rose, Linde (August 2023). Conversion therapy policy debate. New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists https://apanz.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Lindes-Article-August-2023-cropped.pdf

Resources

HeartTalk – Linde Rose (hearttalk.nz)

Imaginal Glass (imaginal-glass.nz) [archive]

Women’s Rights Party (womensrightsparty.nz)

Policy.nz (policy.nz)

Facebook (facebook.com)

X/Twitter (x.com)

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

Instagram (instagram.com)

The New Zealand Society for Artists in Glass (nzsag.com)

Substack (substack.com)