Debate in New Zealand over the medical definitions, clinical treatment approaches, and regulation of gender identity, including the use of gender-affirming interventions such as hormones and surgery, and how sex and gender are recorded and applied in healthcare settings.
How the framings classify across 9 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
Up to 12 framings across outlets and orientations — each a short phrase the extractor generated to characterise the piece's editorial angle (not a quote). Filter by lean to see how each bloc is spinning the story; click through to read the original.
critiques medical assignment practices
Biological sex is neither binary nor a spectrum – a biologist explains how it’s multidimensionala politically sensitive sociological insight
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urgent and evidence-based
Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.
How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
Social-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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