Thread by @ForWomenScot

Those of us who watched the session yesterday were dumbfounded by the blithe acknowledgement of incompetence by the Irish senator who championed self ID. Report with choice quotes./
#WomenAreWatching telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…

"She said there was no system in place for ensuring people who officially changed their gender in Ireland were still called for potentially life-saving medical checks, such as breast screening or prostate exams, & revealed she was “embarrassed” by deficiencies in data collection"

"Senator Doherty also told a hearing of Holyrood’s equalities committee that Ireland had “probably about nine genders”, defended a push to rewrite legislation to refer to “pregnant people”, and insisted people other than women “can absolutely get pregnant”."

“Embarrassingly, none of these things were identified around the time of the enactment of the legislation. We couldn’t tell you how many pregnant people there could be in Ireland...We haven’t collected that data."

“We have no knowledge for our public services, such as prostate check, breast check, cervical check, none of those would include any of our new gender-registered people. That’s a glaring omission.”

“So learn by our mistakes. I’m not even sure we realised it is a mistake until you told me here today, which is a poor show.”

"Senator Doherty admitted that “a number of prisoners” had gained access to a women’s jail in Limerick after taking advantage of the Irish system only after they had been charged with a crime."

"She acknowledged there was a “real suspicion” that the prisoners had only changed their gender to get into a women’s jail and said it would be left to prison wardens to ensure other biologically female inmates would be kept safe."

Remember this person thinks self ID is good!