If I receive clarification from the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration, Youth that the law is being correctly interpreted, I will re-consider my refusal. I note that @dcediy use the Progress Pride flag as their Twitter profile pic. irishtimes.com/ireland/educat… In Ireland, all higher education institutions are compelled to sign up to the @Athena_SWAN charter that embeds gender ideology in third level education. Policies drawn up to acquire Athena Swan awards are becoming more and more radical.

Libraries & books are big news in Ireland this week. Some parents are expressing concern about the age-appropriateness of books on sexuality whilst others argue that there should be no age limits. What's in Irish libraries? Time to Think by Hannah Barnes is in big demand. (1/6) There's a great mix of books on sexuality and gender issues and there is balance too. The number of books is interesting. Time to Think by @hannahsbee 20 copies; Material Girls by @Docstockk 37 copies; Irreversible Damage by @AbigailShrier 18; Trans by @HJoyceGender 35

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

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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

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.

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

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.'

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?

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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.

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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.

Just to state that I have submitted a letter to the @IrishTimes as a right to reply to #thePutinPiece in which one accusation levelled against those of us who participated in the #Liveline discussion is that we are right wing and engage in Muslim bashing. My letter may not appear But in the meanwhile, in an attempt to publicly defend myself, I want to post a few thing’s from the IT in order to try to defend my name. Here is one article I write for the IT in June 2013 when I fasted for Ramadan in solidarity with Muslims in Ireland irishtimes.com/life-and-style…

I wrote to every.single.one of our members of Government in Ireland over the weekend and sent them a link to my article in @TheCriticMag One female government replied ‘I don’t see what your problem is. She said ‘I am a women and I identify as a woman.’ And. Crucially. She said ‘I’m trying to understand your point of view’. I replied that I respect that she subscribes to gender identity theory and that for her being a woman is an identity.

In Ireland, gender is a protected characteristic under our equalities legislation where gender refers to sex (male and female). All Irish higher education institutions are required to sign up to the Athena Swan Charter as part of the national strategy for gender equality. But… The Athena Swan Ireland charter specifically refers to gender in its glossary as a social construct rather than as biological sex. This means that data collected in Ireland HEIs in relation to gender for the ASC potentially does not record information on gender as sex.