Sex based rights of women and girls

A collection of 80 posts

Men in women's prisons

New Limerick women's prison already over capacity

Already in 2024 the new Limerick women's state-of-the-art brand new prison is once again repeating the pattern of the previous prison for women: 62 or 111% bed capacity on 1st and 2nd January, the highest in the State.

Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality

Why relieve the State of an obligation the Constitution imposes on it?

It's just too easy to fall in with the prevailing narrative that this sub-section of Art 41 consigns women to "duties in the home".

Institute for Strategic Dialogue

Sex deception spun as truth

According to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) "disinformation" is "false, misleading or manipulated content presented as fact, that is intended to deceive or harm." What better description for the 2015 Gender Recognition Act?

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.

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?

Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality

Are some people more equal than others?

"Throughout the submissions, the proposal to specifically include gender identity within the Equality Acts was contentious.." Yet the Government gave a commitment to include it in our equality legislation in the 2020 Programme for Government. Do the public really have any say at all?

Hate crime

Women's boundaries at risk in definition of "gender" in hate speech Bill before the Seanad

"This linguistic destabilization of the meaning of sex permits males who claim a female identity to make demands on women and girls that were previously unheard of and that undermine women’s dignity and safety.” - Kara Dansky

Sex based rights of women and girls

Should men be in a women's prison?

Including two male sex offenders in a women’s prison is abusive of the rights not just of women prisoners but of women prison officers who have been threatened with rape. Will the new prison for women in Limerick be for women only?

ARC International

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.

TENI

#WomensDay4Women

For International Women's Day 2023 it's women we need to see more of in our Dáil and Seanad. Let's keep #WomensDay4Women

Men in women's prisons

Centring male prisoners demands in women's jails

Will men with Gender Recognition Certificates be accommodated in the new Limerick women's prison which will have just an extra 22 places - 50 instead of the current 28?

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’

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

Gaslighting girls

Thread from 13th October 2022 Watch “Trans Rights In Ireland With Sara Philips” on #Vimeo https://vimeo.com/749200075 from the Shine Festival yesterday. .@shonadotie why was this talk considered appropriate for teenage girls? Gender identity ideology poses risks to the rights of women and girls (and boys). Phillips says

Freedom of expression

ICCL promotes hate crime law

"Ireland's oldest independent human rights body", the Irish Council for Civil Liberties is seeking €450,000 in a pre-budget submission to promote the upcoming Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Crime) Bill 2022 which will protect "gender identity" and "gender expression".

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

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/

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.

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.