Let women speak-Dublin Sept 16th

& I’m not a vet but I know what a dog is.

I'm glad to see men present. I think it's brilliant to have an event where women speak and its great to have men who are happy to listen.

Paddy O’Gorman was also there. He said he felt like Daniel O’Donnell all these women wanting to talk to him.

What was interstate to me was that the crows were about 30% men. Some people brought babies. It was a good location as they were able to stay at the edge of the crowd & still hear.

Aldo some cute TERF dogs.

Oh apologies, I didn't realise that.

Helen Joyce was there, she was the first speaker as she had to zoom off to RDS. She spoke for about 2 minutes.

Also, the comment section is closed for some reason - annoying.

Report from the Irish section of the Sunday Times here, balanced enough reporting, although they mistakenly said that Helen Joyce was there, when she was at the Free Speech event in the RDS.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/d9d22c5c-54d1-11ee-bc18-cbdd58145dc6?shareToken=6fadbab8325050ef374423652f535b20

I wasn't there but I think the positives to take away from the day was the increase in number of attendees - which means more people are hearing about it - and the fact that the Gardaí are willing to do their job properly and allow it to happen peacefully. Wasn't there an issue a few months ago where they said they weren't willing to police the event or something? So this is good news for future meetings.

Broadly agree. However, I also think that his fame is a complicating issue. A major Irish star was present and prepared to speak. I imagine many people would have been terribly disappointed if he hadn't spoken.

This.

& then march…

I was there, KJK started at 14.03 so just on time.

It’s very difficult at a free speech event to stop speakers who are too long. These women are often not used to public speaking so perhaps they could be more succinct but they speak from the heart.
GL spoke for about 1 minute. The crowd wanted him to speak.
the event was finished promptly at 2pm & the crowd quickly dispersed.

The TRAs were allowed hang around & them March to college green.

The Gardai did an excellent job.

Broadly agree. However, I also think that his fame is a complicating issue. A major Irish star was present and prepared to speak. I imagine many people would have been terribly disappointed if he hadn't spoken.

Linehan - the most articulate and deeply wronged defender of women and women’s rights we’ve seen over the last few years - spoke brilliantly and deserved every second of the time he was given.

anti-feminist facists
privileged, stupid arseholes

Bang on. No wonder TRAs don’t like it when he speaks.

For all those upset that Graham Linehan spoke for one minute, the reason that not all women could speak is that they only had a certain amount of time to do so.

Wouldn't it be grand if any group of women could meet up, in public or private, without having to get the police to protect them and thus having to apply for licences to do so?

We are in a state now where women cannot meet without men.

FIrstly to protest about them meeting, and then to protect them meeting.

It is fucking insane.

I campaigned long and hard for women's reproductive rights and for repeal of the 8th. I fully support SSM.

I also fully support LWS. Do I agree with everything every one of those women believe? Of course not. I don't agree with everything my nearest and dearest believe so why would I expect to do so for any other group of people.

I believe sex is real. I believe gender ideology is a retrograde belief system that undoes decades of advances in women's rights. The only winners in gender ideology are men.

Women deserve to have same sex spaces and I will continue to fight for our rights to safety, dignity and fairness.

Full event
https://www.youtube.com/live/wV8uTh1Pq7s?si=EwWk4X7hqGf9LDLn

You can still see the livestream on Posie's Youtube channel @IwantToRetire
All her LWS livestreams are there.

In the meantime, here's Glinner's bit

Thanks for all report backs. Sounds great.

Due to me stupidly assuming it would be on sunday (as they mostly are) I missed the live stream. But as I know have a 2 hour space in tomorrows list of things to do will look forward to listening then.

Although it can see that speakers at LWS are saying the same things, there is nearly always some vartiation on how women have been impacted that is really important to hear about and know. And sometime women speak from an experience that no one has mentioned before, and it is then that realise just how subversive and far reaching the trans agenda has been.

And irrespective of who turns up to speak or listen, for this opportunity alone KJK deserves not just thanks but recognition.

Well done to all the speakers, every woman & man who turned up today. 👏👏👏

No fascists or Nazis? I mean other than the TRAs.

@LizaBizza go to any university campus today and you will find the majority of students are very much in favour of gay rights but mainly think trans ideology is a load of nonsense. I have 3 children, one recently graduated, 2 still in uni, doing/did 3 different STEM courses in two different unis. They and their friends think it's a load of nonsense.

Trans ideology is mainly pushed by students in the humanities. They tend to have more time on their hands than students studying STEM subjects so their voices are the ones you hear.

I work in a uni in a STEM field. I have yet to encounter a trans student on any of my courses or had any suggestion that pronouns are something we should do. Colleagues in the humanities in the same uni are told they have to include pronouns when introducing themselves and have multiple trans students in their classes.

All that's happening is that the loud voices are being heard.

It is enraging hearing those aggressive, stupid men and their handmaidens chanting and shouting when women are speaking, with great courage, about their experiences of being assaulted, abused, suffering at the hands of men.
Some of those women have had the most terrible experiences. The protesters would do well to actually listen, but of course they won't.

And good to hear the police were helpful and well organised with barriers, etc.