Gender-neutral toilets in schools
Letters to The Irish Times
The Countess Team
TOILETS ROW | Joe Duffy apologises after caller outburst on Liveline
By Ciara O’Loughlin for The Sunday World
Duffy was hosting a conversation around gender neutral toilets as they are now an option for schools under new design guidance released by the Department of Education
Liveline: Joe Duffy apologises after caller uses string of slurs against another during discussion on gender neutral toilets in schools – Independent.ie
Ciara O’Loughlin for The Irish Independent.
Tensions were high on Liveline today as presenter Joe Duffy was forced to apologise to a contributor after an outburst by another caller on his show.
Join our campaign to save single-sex toilets in Irish schools
Our national campaign to uphold the privacy, dignity and safety of Irish schoolchildren has made the front page of the Irish Times. Parents across the… Read More »Join our campaign to save single-sex toilets in Irish schools
Signatory to WoLF Submission to UN Gender Consultation
The Countess, along with forty-two other groups and forty-one individuals representing ten countries has joined the Women’s Liberation Front in calling for an end to… Read More »Signatory to WoLF Submission to UN Gender Consultation
A View From Ireland: An Astonishing Record of Cruelty
By Erica White and Radicailín for The Radical Notion.
Legislative progress for women and LGB people in Ireland has lagged behind the rest of the developed world. Contraception was illegal here until 1993, the same year that gay sex was decriminalized. Divorce was only legalized in 1995, requiring a constitutional amendment.
Abuses of human rights off the scale – The Sunday Times
David Quinn (“Turning a blind eye has secured us UN success”, Comment, last week) rounds up the usual suspects — Russia, China and Saudi Arabia — in relation to Ireland’s failure to criticise human rights abuses.
Submission to the HSE on Cervical Check
You may recall the controversy earlier this year relating to the HSE using the meaningless term ‘anyone with a cervix’ instead of ‘woman’ in its cervical… Read More »Submission to the HSE on Cervical Check
COUNTESS EXPLAINER: Keira Bell Case
What is the background to this case? Keira Bell is a 23 year old English woman who experienced gender dysphoria (GD) as a teenager. GD… Read More »COUNTESS EXPLAINER: Keira Bell Case
Accusations of transphobia stifle much-needed debate
By Stella O’Malley for The Sunday Independent
As the UK rules on puberty blockers, we must have an open discussion to protect vulnerable children, writes Stella O’Malley.
Now that the High Court in London has judged that it is no longer appropriate to use experimental treatment paths on gender- dysphoric children, the ethics of prescribing puberty blockers are being reassessed in other countries around the world.
National Women’s Council criticised for signing trans activist letter
Justine McCarthy for The Sunday Times.
National Women’s Council and Amnesty condemned for backing call to deplatform ‘pseudo feminists’ on transgender issues.
We Will Be Heard
PUBLIC STATEMENT BY THE COUNTESS In an unprecedented move in a modern democracy, a publicly-funded lobby group has viewed itself sufficiently powerful to have produced… Read More »We Will Be Heard