Terenure Library in Dublin will be hosting a talk by Dr Gillian Frank (despite his name he's a man, not trans identified) which appears to be equating single sex spaces for women with racism. Dr Frank is an Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern United States and teaches the MA level class on Gender Theory for the Program in Gender and Women's Studies at Trinity College Dublin.
His view that women having single sex spaces should be compared with racist segregation is not uncommon, it's one of the ways in which Professor Jo Phoenix was bullied. An employment tribunal found Open University accountable for direct discrimination and harassment which included her being called racist. https://sex-matters.org/case-briefings/jo-phoenix-v-the-open-university/
Ireland's public discussion on the issue of women's rights and how they conflict with the demands of trans activists has been abysmal. Gender critical people hardly ever get a chance to be heard here. That a library is platforming such a fatuous smear against us is pretty galling. I think Dr Frank should be free to make his stupid arguments. I think that women who wish to defend our rights should be given at least the opportunity to make a counterargument.