Women's Space Ireland

Gender identity ideology

Safeguarding meaningless on basis of "gender identity"

Surely a nursing home or other care setting needs to know and protect residents on the basis of their sex and also ensure that it's sex, not gender identity, which is of critical importance when it comes to accommodating male residents or employing male staff?

Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality

Are some people more equal than others?

"Throughout the submissions, the proposal to specifically include gender identity within the Equality Acts was contentious.." Yet the Government gave a commitment to include it in our equality legislation in the 2020 Programme for Government. Do the public really have any say at all?

RTE

RTE reports on exported calves but not children

Why has RTE investigated the treatment of exported Irish calves but not of Irish children referred to the Gender Identity Development Services at the UK's Tavistock?

Dublin Pride

Gardai need to follow PSNI in showing no favour to a political lobby

Women exercising our right to freedom of expression need to know that the Gardai will protect us from transactivists as the PSNI did in Belfast a few months ago. It's critical that our police force shows no favouritism to a lobby which includes Transactivism given its threats to women's rights.

Gender identity ideology

Why are more girls trying to escape their sex?

The numbers of those seen with suspected or confirmed gender dysphoria have switched from 73% men to 70% girls in this country: why is no one asking why? Or why the largest cohort of those applying for Gender Recognition Certificates is young women?

Hate crime

Women's boundaries at risk in definition of "gender" in hate speech Bill before the Seanad

"This linguistic destabilization of the meaning of sex permits males who claim a female identity to make demands on women and girls that were previously unheard of and that undermine women’s dignity and safety.” - Kara Dansky

Sex based rights of women and girls

Should men be in a women's prison?

Including two male sex offenders in a women’s prison is abusive of the rights not just of women prisoners but of women prison officers who have been threatened with rape. Will the new prison for women in Limerick be for women only?

Men in women's prisons

Male sex offenders in Limerick women's prison

Thread from 26th May 2023 "The IPRT said women in prison in Ireland are among the most marginalised women in the state, with an estimated 85% having addiction issues and  studies suggesting they are more likely than men to have experienced  sexual, physical, or emotional abuse." "..the

Gender identity ideology

Who imported the culture wars?

In the 2020 Programme for Government there are multiple examples of gender identity ideology being introduced, none of which have popular support. So where does the blame lie for the importation of the "culture wars"?

Autogynephilia

Women's boundaries are not "hatred"

It doesn't matter whether or not a man is innocently seeking to use women's spaces or services or whether he has an ulterior motive. Women want the norms of privacy, dignity and our need for safety to be respected by Government. It's not "hatred" for women to assert this.

Freedom of expression

What Is A Woman?

"In fact, it’s a serious policy issue — and a test of fitness for high office. If women are forbidden to say that men are men, however they identify, then any man can intrude on women-only spaces at will."

Freedom of expression

Protecting a belief in "gender identity"

Thread from 27th April 2023 The Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022 was passed last night by the Dáil which has just 37 women TDs out of 160 in total. That's just 23%. The previous legislation, the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred

Gender identity ideology

Eunuch is a gender now

"The authors of the new standards, which include NHS medics and heads of UK trans charities, argue that castration could help some eunuchs better align with their 'gender identity'."

HSE

Why is no one asking why gender ideology is harming twice as many girls?

Why is "gender dysphoria" now featuring so much in young girls when the 2014 retrospective study in St. Columcille's Hospital found in adults it was 73% men? Has the HSE asked this question? If not, why not? Is the NWCI concerned?

ARC International

The malign influence of gender ideology on women's sport

The General Scheme of the Gender Recognition Act 2013 contained Head 26 which allowed sporting bodies to exclude participants in the interests of safety and fairness. Who opposed it? TENI of course but also, unbelievably, the IHRC, now the @_IHREC.

Men in women's prisons

No males in women's jails

Thread from 21st March 2023 The first man with a Gender Recognition Certificate in an Irish women's prison wasn't Barbie Kardashian: In fact we've had at least three recently, as well as another man claiming to be a woman who must not have had

Schools

Education or indoctrination?

INTO LGBT+ Teachers Group, a voluntary sub-group of the INTO union which "works advocate for LGBT+ representation and inclusion in our primary schools". Is it appropriate for such a group to be promoting gender identity to primary school pupils?

Dentons

Government's cruel deception of women on International Women's Day

"The gender equality referendum is likely to be held in November and will focus on amending the Constitution to 'enshrine gender equality'.." But what does that actually mean and will it benefit women - or men?

TENI

#WomensDay4Women

For International Women's Day 2023 it's women we need to see more of in our Dáil and Seanad. Let's keep #WomensDay4Women

CervicalCheck

Government has its work cut out in tackling disinformation

New working group on disinformation: please keep sending examples of Government disinformation to Women's Space Ireland for them to be added to the list for the new working group to tackle.

TENI

Parental consent

Thread from February 22nd 2023. Curiously this was not the position of the Gender Recognition Act Review Group of 2018 which included TENI and recommended gender recognition for children "of any age" and "an appropriate legal process" where there is not consent from both parents. "

Men in women's prisons

Centring male prisoners demands in women's jails

Will men with Gender Recognition Certificates be accommodated in the new Limerick women's prison which will have just an extra 22 places - 50 instead of the current 28?

RTE

Pride in RTE

Does RTE believe it appropriate for the national broadcaster, with a public service broadcasting remit, to display the flag of a political lobby? What other political lobbies have their flags displayed in RTE?

Womens Space to Speak

Videos from Women's Space To Speak meeting

held in Dublin on 12th November 2022 (More to be uploaded shortly)

Freedom of expression

When some are more equal than others

Thread from 2nd January 2022 Dear Minister @rodericogorman, Women weren't consulted when a commitment was given to add the concept of "gender identity" to our equality legislation. A public consultation was only held in 2021 and we still don't know the responses. Do they