Thread from 19th October 2025
Now that the tide is going out we can see who's been swimming naked.
And just as the TENI (Transgender Equality Network Ireland) celebration of 10 years of Ireland's self-id Gender Recognition Act proved to be something of a damp squib so are Leo's arguments here: https://archive.ph/ONcdT
Former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says that hundreds of millions of people speak languages in which there are no pronouns. This has clearly nothing whatsoever to do with the issue of "preferred pronouns" which violate the reality we see & hear of those who want to compel our speech.
He says "trans people are being demonised" around the western world, ignoring the fact that it's women who are being dehumanised as we try to defend our own rights.
Yes Leo, women are being raped and assaulted when men are put into women's prisons. Children are being confused:
"The legally recognised trans community makes up a tiny and vulnerable minority that poses a threat to no one."
That's not what the women in the Novas women's refuge would have felt surely @LeoVaradkar?
"Nonetheless, one case of abuse, or even several, is not grounds to abolish the act nor to take away the rights or recognition of hundreds of fellow citizens who have done no wrong."
But with self-id when is a trans woman not a trans woman?
Dismissing the harms by Barbie Kardashian and other men who self-id as women is shockingly revealing.
Three out of four such men in our prisons were sex offenders.
In fact men who pretend to be women sexually offend at higher rates than other men.
Fair Play For Women
It's women who are vulnerable when it comes to men in our spaces. As a man Varadkar can have no idea of the precautions women and girls take to protect ourselves nor our need for privacy and dignity when we are in states of undress such as changing rooms.
Yes, most people are unlikely to know someone who calls themself a trans person but this isn't surprising because they are simply men and women. No one can change sex, even with hormones and/or surgery.
Decent men stay out of women's spaces, so we fear any who transgress this.
"The law as it stands does not prevent sporting bodies from creating female-only categories where female athletes — biological women — would otherwise be at a significant disadvantage..." says Varadkar: yet another admission that the GRA is creating problems for women.*
So why did the Government agree with @_IHREC (as IHRC) and oppose adding protection for women in sport in the Gender Recognition Act?
Varadkar was Minister for Health in 2015: could he not have acted then to protect women?
"Lots of men don’t particularly like the fact that women often come into the gents bathroom to avoid a long queue at their own. Many gay men do not like the fact that our clubs are sometimes frequented by groups of women."
As a gay man Varadkar can see the problems for his sex.
He knows that there is an added dimension of safety to consider for women when men seek to use our spaces. But he utterly fails to consider the rights and needs of women at all, not least the fact that we have never been consulted on this nor do we consent to male colonisation.
"The act also does not accommodate intersex or non-binary people," is really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Those with Differences of Sex Development are all either male or female, which as a doctor he surely knows. Ditto those who call themselves "non-binary".
Fortunately Leo's @FineGael colleague Presidential candidate @HeatherH knows what a woman is and has been unafraid to say that the Gender Recognition Act may need looking at again.
In 2020 Taoiseach Leo Varadkar's Fine Gael LGBT committee, of which he was a member, sought to have legal gender recognition for all children under 16:
As Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys wisely and courageously declined to do that, for which parents must be very relieved:
No wonder the trans activist lobby has relied on "no debate" as its mantra and attempts to use "hate speech" legislation to silence any dissent.
The more people learn about this ideology which advances the demands of fetishistic men the more they oppose it.
Activists talking points aren't worthy of a former Taoiseach.
The good news is that if this is all he can muster to argue his case the tide will not be returning.
*Leo Varadkar hasn't been consistent on this issue:
Despite claiming today in The Sunday Times that "The law as it stands does not prevent sporting bodies from creating female-only categories where female athletes — biological women — would otherwise be at a significant disadvantage.." he opposed this when it happened in women's rugby: https://archive.ph/bnjlG
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