Thread by @TheCountessIE

In what can only be described as a huge about-turn, one of the principal architects of gender self-id in Ireland, Fianna Fáil's Willie O'Dea, appears to have had a change of heart about the wisdom of implementing the self-id model of gender recognition.. #KeepPrisonsSingleSex

https://twitter.com/ProtestSilenced/status/1661457290493415460

O'Dea, who was a member of the Gender Recognition Bill Committee that removed the requirement for a medical assessment in order to obtain a gender recognition certificate and replaced it with the disastrous self-id model,

gave his support to the women who were protesting outside the Dáil with the message "No Males in Women's Jails." The housing of violent male sex offenders in Limerick women's prison has come about as a direct result of the self-id model of gender recognition,

although O'Dea was unlikely to have imagined that it would have resulted in such a scenario. If, as appears to be the case, O'Dea now recognises the problems with the self-id model and is willing to admit as much, he must be given credit for changing his mind.@willieodeaLIVE

While most politicians seem to ignore the plight of the women in Limerick prison, O'Dea, as a Limerick man, has perhaps heard accounts from constituents about how being housed with violent male sex offenders is affecting the women prisoners.

It is possible that under the medical model that was replaced by self-id at the last minute, neither Kardashian nor the paedophile who sexually abused his stepson would have been granted a gender recognition certificate and would not have been sent to Limerick women's prison.

It is our hope that more politicians follow Willie O'Dea's suit, and admit that the self-id model for gender recognition is fundamentally flawed and needs to be amended. @willieodeaLIVE
#KeepPrisonsSingleSex #NoMalesInFemaleJails