A “non-binary” New Zealand Greens MP has vanished from parliament amid controversy over his sexualised Instagram account which featured an emoji commonly used by paedophiles, and disturbing photographs of a child with suggestive captions.
Benjamin Doyle, 32, a far-left homosexual who demands to be referred to with “they/them” pronouns and wants the government to provide puberty blockers to children, is taking the week off due to abuse and death threats, according to his party.
Doyle deleted 52 posts from the personal account, named Bible Belt Bussy, and made it private earlier this week after screenshots emerged showing photos of him posing with and kissing a child, believed to be his own, on the lips, along with suggestive captions including “Bussy galore” and the eggplant emoji.
Bussy is a portmanteau of the words “boy” and “pussy” and is a homosexual slang term referring to a man’s anus in a sexual context, while the eggplant emoji is commonly used to represent a penis.
The account sparked outrage online, with many New Zealanders calling for Doyle to resign, and Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters saying he would have expelled any MP from his own party in the same situation, and asking why the posts were deleted.
Other screenshots show both of his accounts have featured the blue spiral cyclone emoji linked to online paedophiles, and in one post about the gender of the child he makes a reference to “cheese”, which is also a well-known codeword used by child sex traffickers.
“I’m so sick of people asking if … is a boy or a girl,” Doyle captioned the photo.
“We’re not interested in the gender binary, so talk to us about cheese instead.”
The spiral emoji resembles a “boylover logo” identified by the FBI, typing the emoji into Instagram’s search bar results in a child sexual abuse warning, and according to internet security company ActiveFence it is used by paedophiles to “procure, trade or sell child sex abuse material depicting boys”.
The “Bussy galore” caption is used on a carousel of photos, including of one of the child on Doyle’s lap and another of the child at the beach, but a source who knows Doyle told The New Zealand Herald the caption referred to multiple photos of Doyle himself in the picture set.
A different source told the same publication that a photo appearing to be of a child wearing pink crocs in a carousel captioned “swipe to see a [eggplant emoji]” is also actually a picture of Doyle.
Another picture shows the child lying on the floor in a pink Maori meeting house at the Canterbury Museum with the caption “Whiro got me fucked up”, Whiro being the lord of darkness and the embodiment of evil in Maori mythology.
Other photos show the child writing Christmas cards to prisoners, with the camera focused on one to an inmate called “Big D”, and colouring a poster with a Maori “transgender” slogan on it.
Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick defended Doyle, who is her party’s early childhood education spokesman, labelling concerns about the account a “conspiracy” and defending his use of the word “bussy”, saying it was used with “irreverence and absurdity” by homosexuals.
“[Doyle] used it in a flippant way, in the way in which many of us would use memes when engaging with our friends. That’s it,” she said.
“You would use it in a way that you would share a meme with a friend.”
Swarbrick, a homosexual vegetarian who takes anti-depressants, said Doyle had deleted the images because they were being used in “mis and disinformation” relating to his child, and that he believed the child was “in immediate danger”.
The media need to start asking serious questions about Green MP Benjamin Doyle and his “alternate” social media account “BibleBeltBussy” – what that really means and his posts – some of which have apparently been deleted. If it were any MP from a government party the media…
— Winston Peters (@winstonpeters) March 28, 2025
She spoke out after Mr Peters posted about the scandal on X, criticising the New Zealand media for not covering it, and asking why the Green Party leadership was not addressing it.
“The media need to start asking serious questions about Green MP Benjamin Doyle and his ‘alternate’ social media account ‘BibleBeltBussy’ – what that really means and his posts – some of which have apparently been deleted,” he wrote on Saturday.
“If it were any MP from a government party the media would’ve already headlined it. The silence from the Green Party leadership amongst the swirling allegations and innuendo online is deafening.
“This is the guy who wants to provide puberty blockers on demand and surgery for children. Doyle has been placed in Parliament to sabotage ethical beliefs our society stands for.”
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said the language in Doyle’s social media posts was “really inappropriate”, but stressed that threats of violence were “totally unacceptable on MPs or frankly any New Zealander”.
