This was an epoch-making, trailblazing speech. We were witnessing a moment in history. The moment our country starts to pull back from the brink of next level Self ID. #WeWillBeHeard

A dystopian nightmare whereby any man, at any time, can ID into any female only space and he will be protected by our equality laws should this amendment go through.
In this speech, @SenatorKeogan exposed the government in its blatant disregard for women and children. No risk assessment. No Impact assessment. A minister for children who does not grasp that the premise of safeguarding IS worst case scenario.
Ignorance of safeguarding from a minister for children laced with anger completely out of synch with the measured tone of the Senator.
All the usual tropes and playbook of false accusations, the usual dog whistle which was completely unwarranted
and lastly a total lack of engagement with the actual issues raised. This is not hyperbole. In Canada and the US sex offenders are using this same law to access female spaces. We will not allow this to happen here.
Thank you @SenatorKeogan We salute your compassion and courage.

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18 Nov
Listen to @SenatorKeogan in Seanad Éireann speaking about the proposed changes to our Equal Status Acts to include Gender Identity as a ground.
Time Stamp: 40 minutes.1/10

@SenatorKeogan highlighted significant concerns that many Irish people have about the proposed reforms to the Equality Acts.
"The issue, which needs to be carefully considered in any amendment to the law is that gender and sex are not the same and a lack of clarity as to 2/10
the definition of those terms has led to a position whereby obtaining a GRC to change your gender here in Ireland, results in someone even a man who has not had any surgery or hormones, does not intend to, being able to access all female only spaces as if they were a woman."3/10
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15 Sep
Teachers ! 📣📣📣Please be aware that BeLong To are potentially leaving you open to liability with their advice to allow adolescent boys to use the female toilet, changing room & even dorm should they identify as the opposite sex, because this breaches safeguarding rules.
In addition, their advice to preclude parents from all knowledge, consent or consultation regarding their child’s social transition at school breaches the rights of those parents under the 1998 Education Act & as enshrined in An Bunreacht. Please feel empowered to address these
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14 Jul
BREAKING NEWS

THE PUBLIC HAVE THEIR SAY IN GENDER DEBATE.
We have commissioned the the first-ever independent survey into attitudes to gender which has revealed widespread support among the Irish public for single-sex services and sports.1

#IrishGenderPoll #WeWillBeHeard
RedC questioned a representative sample of 1,001 adults on a range of gender-related issues.
It comes amid calls for a public debate over gender and sex based rights in the light of controversial decisions such as plans to roll out mixed-sex toilets in Irish secondary schools.2
MORE than three-quarters of respondents (77%) agreed that people should have the right to request that intimate medical examinations are carried out by a person of the same birth sex.
62% said public buildings such as schools and banks should have to provide single-sex toilets.3
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13 Jul
The danger of trans identified male prisoners being housed in women’s prisons has been highlighted recently in the UK, with the Judicial Review Case brought by a female prisoner who claims she was sexually assaulted in Downview Prison by a trans identified male prisoner. 1/5
This prisoner had been convicted of very serious sexual offences against women yet was being held in the general population of the female estate with her in accordance with prison policy.
We have been watching this case closely because both women’s prisons in Ireland 2/5
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10 May
IRELAND: Where young men assault young women with impunity. We had been hearing reports of gangs of boys throwing coffee/water over female joggers. Now this. This young woman could have been killed. These girls are being forced to run the gauntlet to access public transport. 1/
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This letter beautifully & eloquently reflects our position. There was no debate. Because there was no awareness or understanding. All cloaked in fuzziness. Enough. Time for a grown-up conversation in this country about the GRA, trans ideology & their catastrophic impact on single
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