“A victory for common sense, for women and for those who are unafraid to put their heads above the parapet to defend the rights of those who are being eroded by ideology”.
That’s how Aontú Senator Sarah O’Reilly has described the recent ruling by the British Supreme Court that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex under equalities law.
She says
“It’s quite surreal that it took a unanimous judgement from a British Supreme Court to point out what everybody knew already, a woman is an adult human female. The creeping and pernicious gender ideology that says otherwise has created a climate of fear, of uncertainty, of silence and has resulted in women feeling threatened in intimate spaces and very young people questioning their gender and often going down a road they may well regret later. It is questionable as to the genuine care these proponents of gender affirmation have for these often-vulnerable young people.
I have compassion for people with gender dysphoria and I believe transpeople have the right to live their lives as they believe they should and not be subject to unjust discrimination.
I don’t believe however that the rights of women should be sidelined for the sake of a very small minority.
I was the first councillor in Ireland to stand firm to prevent women being written out of the Work Life Balance Bill which sought to reduce ‘women’ to ‘persons’, in relation to maternity protection. Alarmingly, the Bill would have removed the words’ ‘woman’ female and ‘mother’ in maternity legislation. Looking back it’s almost impossible to believe I received unanimous backing from my then colleagues on Cavan County Council such is the vice like grip of the well paid NGO’s whose very existence depends on peddling this unscientific and unrealistic ideology which is so very damaging to many vulnerable and impressionable young people ”.
It truly beggars’ belief that a group like the National Women’s Council , a misnomer if ever there was one, established solely on to promote and advocate for the rights of women, has been so conspicuously silent on this issue of women’s rights. This is disgraceful and shows the stranglehold that extremely well-funded and vocal minorities have on Irish society. Groups like the so called National Women’s Council and others continue to do an enormous disservice to the women whose taxes fund their very being.
I now hope that the Irish Government will take note of this judgement. Currently, any individual can be recognised as a woman in law. This is clearly bizarre and flies in the face of the long and hard-won rights of women. We have had the situation where a violent man who claimed he was a woman was placed in a female only prison. He admitted in court to threatening to rape a female inmate and a female prison officer.
The Irish government has a duty of care to its citizens whose rights must trump dangerous ideologies and idealogues”.
