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.
In this important article, Dr Em recounts the experiences of the ever-growing cohort of ‘trans widows’ – women whose husbands have decided to ‘live as a woman’… Read More »Domestic Abuse Related to Late-Transitioning Partners, Part One
Our bodies have been used against us since Eve plucked the apple from the tree. Our lives are constrained by our biological functions from periods to pregnancy to menopause. These are things that only happen to females. To pretend otherwise is risible.
You know you are in the Upside Down when a famous human-rights organisation petitions your government to disenfranchise you and members of your group, to stop you from engaging in peaceful actions and voicing your concerns and opinions.
Amnesty Ireland joined our power-drunk trans lobby, along with 26 other publicly-funded NGOs, to make this extraordinary demand in an open letter: ‘We call on media, and politicians to no longer provide legitimate representation for those that share bigoted beliefs.’
Now aged 23, the then 15-year-old Keira, troubled and depressed throughout her adolescence, became convinced that she was really a boy in a girl’s body. That psychological trauma led ultimately to a double mastectomy and years of hormone treatments that have left her sterile.
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.
Justine McCarthy for The Sunday Times.
National Women’s Council and Amnesty condemned for backing call to deplatform ‘pseudo feminists’ on transgender issues.
By Josephine Bartosch for The Critic
Human rights organisations in Ireland are calling for the disenfranchisement of those who do not share their political views
Below is a joint statement between the members of The Countess Didn’t Fight For This and members of our group Radicailín on the proposed Hate Crime Bill that the government is trying to pass in Ireland.