Council of Europe No laughing matter The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) is pushing for “gender identity, gender expression, and sex characteristics” to be included in equality legislation. Belief in having a gender identity can't be allowed to supplant the reality of one’s sex.
Council of Europe So how did our Irish delegates vote on the "conversion practices" ban at the Council of Europe? Before the vote was passed yesterday Stella O'Malley warned ".. it is likely to be seized upon by trans activists across Europe as a mandate for further action. We can expect national legislation, regulatory guidance, and professional rules that extend well beyond the resolution’s original intent."
AGPs Leo's lame defence of the Gender Recognition Act 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.
Differences of Sex Development Journalists bend the knee to gender ideology In abandoning their own standards to indulge others in the pronouns they demand journalists signal that they have bent the knee to gender ideology. This is surely in breach of the NUJ Code of Conduct.
Gender identity ideology The Gender Recognition Act was a wolf in sheep's clothing No impact assessment was carried out before an 84% male Dáil passed this dangerous and unnecessary Act in 2015 at the behest of activists. Women never consented to allowing men to "self-id" as women, a safeguarding risk to us and to children.
AGPs What about women's "lived experience"? If resisting men's attempts to colonise women's spaces and sports is "transphobic", what exactly are "trans" rights? And if we cannot withhold our consent to this what rights do women have at all?
AGPs "Gender identity" to be protected under our equality legislation? Yesterday's ruling by the UK's Supreme Court will doubtless have significance for any woman in Ireland wondering if legal action can be taken over males being permitted to use female facilities e.g. in the workplace or schools.
Colette Colfer Stifling academic freedom in Ireland By September of 2022 Advance HE in Britain, who operate Athena Swan, had dropped the requirement to foster ‘collective understanding’ from the UK Principles. However, crucially, collective understanding about gender is still required in Ireland.
Gender identity ideology Irish Government discriminates against women and girls For the State to financially support nominally "non-Governmental" organisations which lobby to undermine the rights and safety of women is to effectively discriminate against women.
Census US returns to reality but sex deception in Ireland continues Between ages 16 to 18 there are 110 women to 46 men yet aged 51+ the sexes are reversed with 3 women to 63 men on the Register. What do young girls have in common with older men?
Laoise de Brún Women seek Seanad seats to protect women and children's rights There are 28 candidates chasing six seats in the two university panels for colleges of the NUI and Trinity College Dublin this month. Many candidates appear to be offering a range of similar positions on a wide variety of topics. Two women candidates however stand out from the crowd. Laoise
Institute for Strategic Dialogue The Institute for Strategic Dialogue and disinformation The Institute for Strategic Dialogue which sits on a subgroup of the Government's National Counter Disinformation Strategy is not above promoting disinformation itself.
Gender identity ideology Activists use those with DSDs - again Leo Varadkar asked Heather Humphreys, Minister for Social Protection, if she plans to make provision for people who are medically determined to be intersex due to their chromosomes or characteristics to be recognised in law. Now why would activists want this?
Equality legislation Law, not justice If the Government's plans to protect men's "gender identity" in our equality legislation is successful, it may mean that women and girls will not be able to object to men or boys in our sports, schools, changing rooms.
AGPs Department speaks out of both sides of its mouth Just announced: a new public consultation on the next National Strategy for Women and Girls. Is this just another box ticking exercise before proceeding once again with what the gender identity activists in our NGOs and Government want?
BeLonG To Youth Services Defending the indefensible: men in women's sport Why should the Government fund any organisation which lobbies to have men and boys enabled to play in women's and girl's sports? State funding for this looks very much like discrimination against women and girls.
Colette Colfer It's not kind to undermine safeguarding Colette Colfer's courageous stance in objecting to the South East Technological University's new gender identity and expression policy was reported in The Irish Times on Thursday of last week: Lecturer objects to university’s gender identity policy which describes refusal to use pronouns as ‘unlawful’South
Colette Colfer Conflating legislation with ideology So now we know, thanks to courageous lecturer Colette Colfer, that it's a feature - not a glitch - that gender identity ideology is being advanced through Irish society as if the law requires it. The reality appears to be that the law hasn't determined many of the claims now being made.
Colette Colfer Let Women Speak To hear the chanting in Dublin of women being called ‘Nazi scum’ denigrates the memory of those killed in the Holocaust, diminishes the enormity of Nazi atrocities, and dangerously demonises women who gathered to speak peacefully and voice legitimate concerns about issues that affect our lives.
Colette Colfer Gender ideology in Irish education Through all levels of the Irish education system, it is now being taught that everyone has such a thing as a ‘gender identity’ and, more crucially, that the best way to deal with students who have a gender identity that is incongruent with their biological sex is to affirm this identity.
Colette Colfer Colonisation of the Irish Curriculum Part III Gender Identity Theory in the new Junior Cycle By Colette Colfer 12th August 2023 Republished with kind permission from Colette's Substack. September is almost upon us. Blackberries glint on brambles, apples ripen red on trees, combine-harvesters whoosh through billowing fields of golden barley, and parents rush to purchase
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?
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?
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"?
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."
