Thread by @WomenChildrenCo

Ireland's GRA 2015 was "an extraordinarily high-profile piece of legislation, with all the accompanying media coverage, political debates and processes", claims Mulally, in @IrishTimes. Check Google search results for the topic from 1/1/2014 - 31/12/2015: google.com/search?q=gende…

Google Trends data for 1/1/2007 (the year of Lydia Foy's High Court win regarding changing factual birth cert to one recognising "legal gender") to 31/12/2016. The GRA was enacted on 15/7/2015 (blue peak on graph below). Does this look like it was "extraordinarily high-profile"?

The #DentonsDocument lobbying playbook recommends piggybacking gender ID legal changes on more popular reforms, citing Ireland's marriage equality legislation as providing a "veil of protection" to GRA, which was "more difficult to win public support for". spectator.co.uk/article/the-do…

Let's add in "marriage equality" and see how well that tactic of obscuring debate worked: trends.google.com/trends/explore…

The yellow line is "marriage equality", green is campaign slogan "yes equality". Some snapshots:

An 85%-male Dáil passed a self-ID version of the GRA, dropping requirement for medical evidence, per demands of campaigners citing the non-binding #YogyakartaPrinciples. Signee Robert Wintamute has since expressed regret for YKP, admitting the impact on women wasn't considered.

Now we're in 2022, and we're still being told our anger at violent misogyny enabled throught he GRA is "manufactured outrage", despite the living and breathing examples of impact in Limerick, or on one end of rape crisis phone lines, or in homes where #AGP violence is unleashed.

How embarrassing for the female journalists whose dismissal of women's healthy response to boundary transgression is printed just as video evidence of #incel #MRA violence against women & girls in the name of "trans activism" goes viral. @StandingforXX #Bristol #LetWomenSpeak

@StandingforXX "It's not a men's rights movement, you hateful bigots!" See for yourselves.

https://twitter.com/StandingforXX/status/1538498687114035201?s=20&t=R83QpED0tUatKBoCQQOT-g

@StandingforXX Thanks to @EilisOHanIon for her clear-eyed counterpoint to the tired tropes and laundry-like scolding of some of her fellow journalists on the topic:

https://twitter.com/EilisOHanIon/status/1538496367810727938?s=20&t=R83QpED0tUatKBoCQQOT-g

And well said @RachelRMoran. Luxury beliefs for some:

https://twitter.com/RachelRMoran/status/1538835362931408897?s=20&t=R83QpED0tUatKBoCQQOT-g