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 […]
The Democrat congresswoman has raised eyebrows on both sides of the aisle by this week sponsoring bills that would outlaw the current practice of letting newborn babies die after delivery following failed abortions, and the increasingly common spectre of biological males playing female sports.
The Tavistock Clinic, Britain’s only sex-change clinic for children, has been refused permission to appeal the results of the recent Bell -v- Tavistock case by the British Divisional Court. That case had found that children under 16 likely could not meaningfully consent to puberty blockers or sex-change hormones gives the immense impact the treatments could […]
A Donegal TD, Thomas Pringle, is being heavily criticised after he posted a Twitter message saying he “hates terfs” – a term feminists say is used to attack women who speak up against extremism from transgender activists. Deputy Pringle posted a tweet saying he “Loves Twitter. Hates Terfs”, and also included the hashtag #TransRightsAreHumanRights. Love twitter. […]
In Arthur Koestler’s novel Darkness at Noon, the Stalinist Rubashov’s prison neighbour responds to the news that Rubashov has fallen foul of the regime by tapping out “Bravo. The Wolves devour one another.” Some of us may be forgiven by having the same feelings with regard to the turning of the woke witch hunters on […]
Seventeen-year-old environmental activist Greta Thunberg is rumoured to be a candidate for the next Nobel Peace Prize. She’s young; she has battled with autism; she has inspired young people to rebel against conventional wisdom. Good on her. Another name in the game should be Keira Bell, a 23-year-old activist who has won a stunning victory […]
The UK High Court has ruled against puberty blockers for children under 16. Ben Scallan reacts. #gript
It is not unfair to say about Irish Times columnist Roisin Ingle that she is a doctrinaire progressive left winger on almost every issue under the sun. Those of you who followed the abortion referendum, for example, will recall that she was one of the leading campaigners, in the media, for a yes vote. To […]
A Supreme Court judge in British Columbia stopped doctors from performing a “gender-affirming” double mastectomy on a 17-year-old Vancouver girl. The girl’s mother had appealed to the court for an injunction, which Justice Shelley C. Fitzpatrick granted for three weeks. The teenager began hormone treatment in July as part of her transition and was scheduled […]
Who would have thought the Irish Independent, one of the oldest papers in the country, would be reduced to discussing whether babies can be “trans” in the “LGBTQIAAPK2S+ movement”?
Prison officers are demanding that they be issued with procedural guidelines on how to deal with transgender inmates after guards were unable to search an inmate who identifies as a woman but is still physically a man. The Sunday Independent reported that prison officers were left in an unprecedented position when staff were asked to […]
Some of Britain’s best known writers and actors, including famed author Ian McEwan and actor Griff Rhys Jones have signed an open letter defending JK Rowling after the Harry Potter creator was the focus of sustained attack in social and mainstream media for her views on gender identity. Rowling has stood her ground after expressing concern that […]