Women's Space Ireland

Sex based rights of women and girls

Having the craic: quare women eat gender ideology for lunch

Sixty women from North and South met for lunch; many more would have come if we'd had the room #WomensLunchIRL #IrishWomenRise #SexNotGender #RespectMySex

Conversion therapy

Minister reaffirms commitment but also says legislation "is not a given"

"'I am very conscious that this legislation is not a given . . . That’s why it’s so important that when we bring forward this proposal it’s clear, it’s watertight and we have the research to back it up.'"

Certification rendered meaningless

In Ireland through self-identifying one can obtain a Gender Recognition Certificate, change of name, new birth certificate. Having a criminal record is no bar. It can also be revoked or altered - again just by filling in a form and having a legal witness.

HSE

HSE doubles down instead of querying its treatment of Irish children

With an urgent enquiry announced into gender treatment of children in the UK The Sunday Independent has revealed that the HSE is looking into sending Irish children to "similar services" elsewhere. Should Minister Stephen Donnelly now seek answers as to how Irish children are being treated?

Joint Committee on Gender Equality

Citizens Assembly adds to Oireachtas resolution

Thread from 6th May 2022 The Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality includes "gender identity" in its definition of gender; and it's the Citizens Assembly report which informs the work of the Joint Committee on Gender Equality. https://www.gov.ie/en/speech/0c226-minister-harris-ppening-statement-to-the-joint-committee-on-gender-equality-5-may-2022/

TENI

Social constructs don't need medical treatment

If, in fact, gender is a 'social construct' and gender identity then is a personal sense or idea of who you are, then why would any medical treatments ever be necessary? Social constructs don't need medical treatment.

HSE

Assessments on Irish children "vague and not fit for purpose" but facilitated starting treatment

234 referrals of Irish children to date to the UK's NHS Tavistock and Portman Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) for assessment. Yet Prof Donal O'Shea warns "'The assessments we have seen on children were vague and not fit for purpose but facilitated starting treatment.'"

Colette Colfer

A new religion

A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul.

Yogyakarta Principles

Sex should matter in Census 2022

Why have gender identity lobbyists been influencing the Central Statistics Office regarding Census 2022? Those who say they feel "uncomfortable" at acknowledging their sex have been allowed tick both boxes and where the response is not clearly indicated, a sex "will be assigned at random."

Funding

Invisible accounts on International Trans Day of Visibility

Today is the deadline set by the HSE for TENI, the Transgender Equality Network Ireland, to file its overdue accounts which are late for the third year in a row. Why too have other funders withheld monies from TENI?

Freedom of expression

Including men means excluding women

Including men in events for International Women's Day is inappropriate and yet another attempt at trying to groom society into accepting gender identity ideology.

US Tides Foundation

Why was an unrepresentative survey carried out by the National LGBT Federation?

"While the number of participants was relatively large, they were not a random sample of the overall national population so the results may not be representative...Any follow-up to this study should use a representative sampling approach to overcome these limitations."

Sex based rights of women and girls

Politicians abuse women for defending our rights

Some elected politicians believe they can verbally abuse women who defend the rights of women and children and don't subscribe to gender identity ideology. Demonising women for exercising the human right to express our views has no place in a democracy.

Conversion therapy

Legislation promised - now evidence of need required

Many see including "gender identity" in a ban on conversion therapy as a Trojan Horse to prevent health professionals from doing their job of counselling young people. Is "affirmation" of young people leading to hormones and surgery the real "conversion therapy"?

Funding

After the watershed

The cognitive dissonance between those condemning men's violence to women who also insist that women accept men who "identify" as women has been laid bare this week. One woman gives her views.

Funding

Irish Government more than four times as generous to TENI as UK Government is to Stonewall

TENI receives more than four times as much Government funding per head of population than Stonewall receives from the UK government. Despite this TENI is late in filing its audited accounts for the third year in a row.

Sex based rights of women and girls

TRANS to TDs - joint Christmas campaign with The Countess

Here's the list of TDs and some Senators so far promised a copy of Irishwoman Helen Joyce's bestseller "TRANS - When Ideology Meets Reality".

Life

"If you can have your friend sit in your kitchen with troubles piled, not knowing what to do and ease her cares and help her just by listening and know that she would do the same for you". Jean Cross shares her wonderful adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's "IF" for women this Christmas Eve: "Life".

Men in women's prisons

The women in Limerick prison

If men with Gender Recognition Certificates continue to be put into women's prisons in Ireland separate accommodation is needed. But why might lesbians need separate accommodation in the new Limerick women's prison and why is the "I" for "intersex" included in "LGBTIQ+ prisoners"?

Variations of Sex Development

Submission to the review of our equality legislation

A man's feelings of having a female “gender identity” is a belief. The concept of “gender identity” cannot be allowed to replace the reality of sex in law. For women and girls, any legislation needs to prioritise safeguarding protection and privacy on the basis of our sex.

IHREC

Men's feelings to override women's legal rights?

Why should women and girls be expected to have fully intact males, who claim to have an undefinable "gender identity", in our private spaces?

Programme for Government

#SaveOurSpaces campaign organized by Radicailin

Excerpts and photos from Radicailin's campaign launch #SaveOurSpaces over the Government's commitment to amend the gender ground in our equality legislation and include "gender identity" which puts at risk the right of women and girls to single sex spaces.

Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC)

FLAC's response to a reply

Tweet from November 25th 2021 FLAC Guide: The Review of the Equality Acts, Making a Submission to the Review, & The Key Issues Under Review.The Review of the Equality Acts is underway, and the deadline to make submissions to the Review is Wednesday, 8 December 2021. This FLAC

Programme for Government

FLAC fails to support women's sex-based rights

Women and girls are provided with protection on the grounds of sex under our equality legislation. FLAC has just published guidance for making submissions to the Public Consultation on the review of this legislation. Why have they not mentioned the need to protect the rights of women and girls?

BeLonG To Youth Services

Department of Education funds ideology under bullying action plan

Why is the Department of Education and Skills funding a lobby group to tell school students during Stand Up Awareness Week that a lesbian is a "woman who is mainly attracted to other women"? How does this fit with the 2013 Action Plan for Bullying?