There’s a brilliant article over on Unherd by the transsexual writer Debbie Hayton about the situation in Ireland. What appears to have happened is that trans activists bamboozled the political class into accepting the idea of gender self identification. Self identification was basically waved through by politicians with very little public debate and the activist groups behind self ID in Ireland wanted to keep it that way and keep the issue out of the Press where it could spark such public debate. This is an article well worth reading as Irish citizens are starting to see how gender self ID has had a negative effect on women.

It’s only now, six years on from the Irish Gender Recognition Act, that the public has been consulted. Not by the government, even now, but by The Countess, an Irish campaign to restore the privacy, dignity and safety of women and children in schools, workplaces, sport, changing rooms, toilets, hospitals, prisons and refuges. Opinion polling carried out for them by Red C – found that respondents were not impressed.

Only 17% agreed with the 2015 law that allows someone to change their birth certificate as soon as they self-identify as the opposite sex. Rather more (34%) thought it should be permitted once a trans person has partially or fully transitioned through hormone treatment and/or genital surgery. But 28% felt that individuals should not be allowed to change the sex on their birth certificates at all.

Even younger people (aged 18-34) favoured no changes to birth certificates, as opposed to the laissez-faire approach that was pushed through parliament. Overall, men were more cautious than women —  perhaps because they better understand what men can be like.

Please read the entire article via the link below:

https://unherd.com/2021/07/how-the-trans-activists-fooled-ireland/