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Ireland. Dublin. 2023. Women are unable to meet because such a strong Garda presence is required. Women want to speak about women’s rights, about the importance for women of single-sex spaces, sports and prisons, about the impact of gender identity on their lives. #LetWomenSpeak
I was going to attend this event. Anyone attending had to muster courage. The lies being told about Kellie Jay Keen resulted in the justification of extreme violence at an event in #Auckland New Zealand last week. Police said KJK was lucky to get away from the event alive. 2/8 ImageImage
One woman in her 70s who attended the Auckland event was head-butted and punched in the head - it was found later that she had, as a result, a fractured skull. Another woman had her foot broken. Stomp Terfs had been one of the slogans. 3/8 Image
In Ireland today, people are living in fear of speaking up about gender identity. Those who want the theory pushed on everyone are acting unfairly and with impunity. We must be able to #LetWomenSpeak if we truly want an open healthy democracy. 4/8
Women who want to speak are being called Nazis. And then the chant is ‘the only good Nazi is a dead one’. We are not Nazis. We are not far-right. We are not bigots. These are unfair and untrue accusations. They are dangerous too. 5/8
Irish celebrities , organisations, certain individuals and even one politician, were campaigning to protest against women speaking in Dublin on April 15th. I see these tweets as threatening and designed to instil terror. Is this the Ireland we want? Women terrorised? 6/8 ImageImageImageImage
To be clear - trans people exist and deserve support and respect. Trans people should have equal rights. I respect and understand that many people do have a gender identity. Children with gender dysphoria need and deserve the best medical care available. 7/8
Last tweet. I wish everyone attending the #LetWomenSpeakBelfast event strength and solidarity and I look forward to @ThePosieParker coming to Dublin at another time. Will there be more of this when it comes around? ImageImageImage

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Mar 14
I've received information from the HSE this afternoon on the 'stakeholders' that were consulted in the development of the Busy Bodies booklet for primary school children that is on the NCCA curriculum online as a resource for SPHE and which states 'We all have a gender identity'
The booklet also states that ‘Gender identity is how we think of ourselves as a boy, a girl, neither or both’ and that gender is something that is ‘given’ at birth. One of the stakeholders consulted was the gender identity lobby group BeLonG To.
In a previous email, the HSE had stated: ‘The description of gender identity within the booklet is in line with definitions used in national strategy documentation’. I asked them which strategy they were referring to and they gave details today:
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Sep 26, 2022
On the 9th June, a woman phoned @rteliveline to recount her story live on air about how she went to the @NWCI AGM to ask the National Women's Council of Ireland about the proposed removal of the word woman from upcoming maternity legislation but was barred from entering (1/9)
Thus began three consecutive Liveline shows that involved members of the public phoning in to discuss the word woman and associated gender issues. It was the first time in over three years that a discuss of gender was aired in such depth on Ireland's public service broadcaster
On Monday June 13th, the third day of the shows, the @IrishTimes ran a news piece 'RTE's Liveline accused of facilitating 'hate speech'' irishtimes.com/ireland/social…
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Aug 9, 2022
Coverage of Tavistock was interesting @morningireland The letter from Dr. Hilary Cass to the NHS in July stated that: 'adolescent sex hormone surges may trigger the opening of a critical period for experience-dependent rewiring of neural circuits underlying executive function..'
'If this is the case, brain maturation may be temporarily or permanently disrupted by puberty blockers, which could have significant impact on the ability to make complex risk-laden decisions, as well as possible longer-term neuropsychological consequences.'
'To date, there has been very limited research on the short-, medium- or longer-term impact of puberty-blockers on neurocognitive development.' Also, in France earlier this year, the National Academy of Medicine issued a press release stating...
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Jul 23, 2022
I have received a response from @RTE following my FOI request and can now confirm that training sessions have been carried out at Ireland's national state broadcaster by both ShoutOut and BeLong To - both of which deliver workshops that promote gender identity theory.
My question for RTE is this - how can our national state broadcaster maintain an impartial stance on issues relating to gender identity when training is being given to staff that encourages a particular way of thinking about it? Has the impartiality of RTE been compromised?
When women express concerns about the erasure of the word woman, when people ask questions or disagree with gender identity theory, then how can RTE fairly cover these issues when staff are being taught to think about them in one particular way?
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Jun 27, 2022
THREAD with all my gender articles:

Background - I attended a ‘diversity inclusion’ style workshop in my workplace last May (2021). A colleague asked me afterwards ‘what did you think of that?’ I replied ‘indoctrination’. I set about trying to find out what was going on. (1/12)
The first article I wrote was ‘Stifling Academic Freedom’ which was published on Broadsheet on the 18th November 2021 and which focuses on the Athena Swan Charter and its impact on Higher Education Institutions in Ireland.
A friend was upset so I tried to keep my head down and stay quiet. Then I was filling in questionnaires - from the Higher Education Authority of Ireland and also a literary publication – and both organisations had adopted gender identity theory. I had to explore the topic more.
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Jun 21, 2022
Thank you to @IrishTimes who did the honourable thing by publishing my right to reply. Shout out to @HJoyceGender and to all the women who attended the Dublin lunch and who are doing Trojan work all over Ireland @rodericogorman @ReginaDo @MichealMartinTD irishtimes.com/opinion/letter…
And I also want to thank the organisers of that lunch and all who attended - especially @anyabike who flew in from Dublin to be with us & who is originally from Cork. Also thanks to @joeliveline and @rte for standing firm to uphold our right to expression. I’d better shurrup.
*flew in from London. For feck sake I always do it - forget to read before I tweet
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