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 […]
When the National Women’s Council of Ireland threw a feminist event over the weekend, with the lineup of high profile groups and individuals involved, you’d assume we were all in for a barnstormer. I mean, how could the event not draw a big crowd? The NWCI themselves say it’s been planned since March 2021 – […]
A woman was heckled out of a feminist rally in Dublin because she held a sign which is reported to have said “biology is not bigotry.” The event took place outside the Dáil at the National Women’s Council of Ireland’s Women’s Day event, which was widely promoted by various NGOs and political parties. The event […]
NGS witnessing explosion in referral levels
A producer of the James Bond franchise has said that while the next James Bond won’t be a woman, the character could be played by someone who is gender “non-binary” – not identifying as male or female, and using “they/them” pronouns. Barbara Broccoli, who controls the iconic series with her half-brother, made the comment on […]
Failed boycott
For no uniform day, a secondary school in Meath has encouraged students to wear “pride” colours representing bisexual, transgender, non-binary, demisexual, and genderfluid identities, leading some parents to express their discomfort. For “Stand Up Awareness Week 2021” last week, St. Peter’s College in Dunboyne, Co. Meath, held a “Pride Non-Uniform Day” on Thursday the 25th […]
The Abortion Rights Campaign has boycotted the Irish Times for being “transphobic,” suggesting, once more, that one can literally never be liberal or progressive enough to appease the Irish NGO sector. After all, if the paper of Fintan O’Toole and Una Mullally is not sufficiently on-side, who is? “Transphobia has no place in the paper […]
The remarks were made yesterday during a discussion on child safeguarding in Irish schools.
Acceptance of the notion that gender identity is a mental, rather than a biological, state has advanced the interests of a tiny proportion of males.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin has been criticised for failing to answer questions from parents
The luddite environmentalist group Extinction Rebellion has declared that “nature is queer,” that “trees can be both male and female and change sex,” and that “the huge range of biodiversity is echoed in human diversity.” The statement was released following a rally in Helsinki by Extinction Rebellion Finland. That rally demanded “ecosocial justice” and the […]