Gender identity ideology - Women's Space Ireland (Page 2)

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.

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.

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

Equality legislation

Assigning a low value to the status of being legally female

Thread from December 3rd 2022 Prof Robert Wintemute was one of the signatories to the original Yogyakarta Principles (not binding on the Irish State) along with former President Mary Robinson and Prof Michael O'Flaherty, now director of @EURightsAgency. The Yogyakarta Principles – Yogyakartaprinciples.org See @TheCountessIE poll from last

Equality legislation

Leinster House succumbs to policy capture

"'policy capture', where public decisions over policies are consistently or repeatedly directed away from the public interest towards a specific interest, can exacerbate inequalities and undermine democratic values, economic growth and trust in government"

Freedom of expression

Mastodon lumbers towards extinction

Thread from 23rd November 2022. "How have we come to the point, as an online community of the Irish language, that accounts on a social platform are suspended that only shared a link to an article that was printed on http://Tuairisc.ie?" (Google translation). 1/6 B’

Colette Colfer

Gender Identity, Religion, and Biology as Blasphemy

Colette Colfer speaking at Women's Space to Speak, November 12th 2022. In the autumn of 2018 I wrote a poem, a piece in verse, called Woman. I recited the piece at an open mic poetry-night on the 14th December in Waterford City and, the following day, I posted

Anne Lodge

The Irish Education System & Gender Identity Ideology

Anne Lodge Women's Space Ireland Event, Saturday 12th November 2022 Introduction Good afternoon. First can I thank the organisers for inviting me to be part of this panel. Second, can I say what a genuine honour and privilege it is to be part of this panel with these

Helen Joyce

"And we will all call him Liam, won't we?"

Helen Joyce This article is cross-posted from Helen Joyce's website with her permission Joyce activated, issue 27 By Dr H Joyce – 17 Nov 2022 – View online → I’ve recently returned from a trip to Dublin for “Women’s Space to Speak”, an event arranged by campaign group Women’

Christina Ellingsen

Women have the right to reject men's convictions

"There exists no combination of thought patterns, mannerisms, hobbies, preferences or aesthetics that can disqualify a man from the male sex and qualify them into the female sex."

Colette Colfer

Women's Space to Speak - Thanks to all

Thread from 13th November 2022 Many thanks to all of our superb speakers yesterday. And many thanks indeed also to those who bought tickets to provide this public meeting of #WomensSpaceToSpeak despite the many attempts - even today - to cancel what women have to say on how changes in

Freedom of expression

Women's Space to Speak

Dublin, Saturday November 12th, 2-6pm Women from across Ireland are coming together to talk about issues that affect us all. Speakers from the fields of law, psychotherapy, education and journalism will share their experience and concerns about how changes in law, policy, and the meaning of gender impact women, children

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

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.

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".

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.

Irish Girl Guides

Grooming girl guides

What consideration was given to the rights and needs of girls in Irish Girl Guides before the policy on boys who identify as girls and want to join the organisation was adopted? This policy includes guidance on overnight sleeping arrangements and toilets and says nothing of the rights of girls.

Educate Together

Gender identity ideology for children?

Twitter thread 17th May 2021 Thank you @willieodeaLIVE for raising this important issue. [https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/school-texts-contain-images-of-paedophilia-bestiality-and-torture-ff-td-claims-1.4566811] Will you also please ask your colleagues if it's appropriate for Junior Infants to 2nd class to have gender identity ideology promoted to them? See reading list