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.
Cass Report The ICCL has left the building This morning we learnt the Department of Education has confirmed that there's no obligation on schools to use preferred pronouns as stated in the ICCL guide.
Gender Recognition Act Submission to the Irish Prison Service Prison Rules Review Consultation Any new policy on transgender prisoners must ensure that any changes to the Prison Rules do not negatively impact on the safety and other needs of women in prisons, including women prisoners and women Prison Officers and officials.
AGPs What impact assessment was carried out on allowing men to call themselves women? Why are the demands of a tiny minority to use whichever toilet they like in our national theatre according to their "personal preference" given precedence over the majority's preference for the comfort and dignity of single-sex provision?
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 Gender Recognition Act has to go "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."
Equality legislation Our legislators enabled sex deception by men Unbelievably, the submission by the Equality Authority (now part of IHREC, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission) believed that the demands of some men to be legally recognised as the opposite sex should be extended to permit them access to women's changing rooms and toilets.
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.
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.
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
Freedom of expression We will not stand idly Poem by Kathryn O'Sullivan, read out at our protest outside the German Embassy on November 1st, the day far-reaching "self-id" legislation came into force placing German women and children at risk of harm.
AGPs "Hate crime" Bill poses safeguarding risk to women and children The "hate crime" Bill before the Seanad today introduces an entirely new definition of “gender”, which defies the reality of there being only two sexes or genders. It sets a very dangerous precedent in our legislation if it is passed.
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.
IHREC Ireland now to import babies IHREC says the exploitation of vulnerable women for surrogacy is 'one of the most concerning, novel and emerging forms of trafficking'. "Yet we have enacted a law that legalises what the UN special rapporteur on human rights has called 'the sale of children'."
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?
Surrogacy Surrogacy - exploiting women and buying babies "A society that promotes the idea that women can be containers of babies and that we should do it for love and freedom is such a monstrous society that it is not even able to recognise its monstrosity any more."
BeLonG To Youth Services Single-sex provision: what does the law say? Is it misrepresentation of our legislation to state that men who "identify" as some other gender are entitled to use the facilities of women, for instance, when this may not necessarily be correct in law?
Equality legislation Toilet Trouble Public health experts say we should aim to have two female toilets for every one male toilet because women generally use the toilets more frequently and for more reasons than men. Gender-neutral toilets mean less facilities for women, when what we really need is more.
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.
Hate crime Gender identity behind new hate speech bill Our existing 2000 Equal Status Act protects single-sex spaces and we want these protections maintained. We don’t want to be made fearful of calling out any man who seeks to use them by being accused of “hate” under the proposed "hate speech" bill.
AGPs Women's protections at risk from adding "gender identity" to our equality legislation? “It is planned that legislative proposals arising from the Review of the Equality Acts will be brought forward shortly. Policy officials are seeking legal advice on a number of matters before proposals can be finalised."
Referendum Women did this for a lot of very good reasons, not least because we care Enter women. Women who fielded phone calls from people who decided to phone a friend before making their choice. Who thrashed out their ideas on forums and in WhatsApp groups.
Constitution of Ireland The language is only sexist if you think motherhood is sexist "The woman down the flats didn't know that the State has a direct obligation to support her, should she choose to stay at home. And her sisters in the NWCI were never going to tell her while they were demanding that her right to choose should be removed."
Constitution of Ireland The spin around Art 41.2 "It was at the heart of cruel, discriminatory policies, such as the marriage bar, which forced women out of their careers once they got married," said Orla O'Connor, director of the National Women's Council.
