Newstalk has seen significant backlash online after accusing Harry Potter author JK Rowling of “opposing rights for trans people” similar to Vladimir Putin. Rowling has been noted for her belief that transgender self-identification was a threat to women in areas such as sports, women’s toilets and changing rooms. She has also expressed concern that young […]
Bristol University has been ridiculed for encouraging staff to use a gender pronoun guide which included “catgender” for people who identify as cats, and “emojiself” for people who identify with emojis. The university’s “Using Pronouns At Work” guide links to a website that says some people may choose to use “Emojiself pronouns” – identifying with […]
Speaking in the Dáil this week, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald decided to give it to the entire nation of Ireland with both barrels, dubbing the country’s past and present “ugly and dangerous.” “The roots of sexism and misogyny run deep,” she said. “The Ireland of religious dogma, that defined women as men’s property, […]
This is apparently not new
“There is no legislation in the United Kingdom which recognises a non-gendered category of individuals,”
Taxpayer-funded nonsense
The American Medical Association is not some sort of pound-shop outfit. If you have never heard of it, then know this: It is the largest association of doctors and medical practitioners in the United States. It has almost a quarter of a million members, and annual revenue of about $350million. For decades, it has been […]
A prominent medical journal has published an article arguing that parents should not have “veto power” in decisions around their children wanting to embark on medical treatment to change gender. Writing in the Journal of Medical Ethics last month, bioethics professor Maura Priest (who is a philosopher and not a medical doctor) said that in […]
Whenever you see something this tin-eared, there are really only two possibilities worth considering. The first is that the Labour Party, and its advisers, live in such a bubble that they genuinely don’t know how weird and odd it seems to normal people to assert that periods and menstruation are a gender-neutral experience. The second? […]
A group of medical and biological professionals has strongly criticised the growing trend to deny the reality of biological sex, saying that the claim that sex is neither fixed nor binary is “entirely without scientific merit”. In recent times, asserting that there are two sexes – male and female – and that gender is fixed and […]
There are a great many things that are plain wrong or objectionable within the Bills and Acts that have emerged from the Oireachtas in the last number of years. This varies of course, from the attacks on life and liberty to the taxes they have levied or indeed that they have failed to levy, as […]
The European Green Party, which includes the Irish Green Party as a full member, recently held its 32nd Council with the aim of exchanging solutions on “today’s most urgent topics.” This included debates on “how to counter Rule of Law backsliding in Europe; and “how we can continue to fight for the human rights of […]