A manager at a high profile property development company is being spoken to by the company after using his work email to make “inappropriate and disappointing comments” to the author of a blog on gender affirming care and puberty blockers. Mark Hamilton - a seismic programme manager at Kiwi Property - sent an email to blogger Emily Writes telling her to “Take me off your list. I don’t do genital mutilation of minors - it’s sick”.
Writes had posted a Q & A on transgender health with answers from Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa president Jennifer Shields and Massey University senior lecturer and Storm Clouds and Rainbows author Julia de Bres. Areas covered included what puberty blockers are and the process for getting them, and England’s Cass Review of gender-affirming healthcare for children. Writes posted on Facebook screen grabs of two emails sent to her in response by Hamilton.
A second email from Hamilton - which appeared to be a reply to Writes - read: “Ok pedophile (sic).”.
