"Imagine a law that allowed white people to declare they are black or adults to declare they are children. There would rightly be uproar. Yet women are supposed to accept that any man can say he’s a woman, or be called a bigot."
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.
The IHRC which with the Equality Authority is now IHREC, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, also opposed a provision which would have protected women and girls in sport. They clearly didn't consider the rights of half of the population, but instead supported men who claim to be women.
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.