I'm so glad this is being talked about outside of FWR, we are so far behind because Self ID is ALREADY LAW. It makes me so angry to think about this. It will take years to claw back single sex rights for women.
Most of our politicians just don't want to talk about this. I have emailed my local TDs several times about men in women's prisons etc. and got no response. Nothing.
I feel like women here are blinded by the rainbow the same way our grandmothers were blinded by the cross. The dazzle of it means we can't see the 5% of predators hiding behind the 95% of decent people.
This is so true. And the fact that there has been a liberal reckoning over the last 20 years in breaking out of the conservative constraints of the catholic church, with divorce, abortion and gay marriage. So I think we are riding high on the crest of 'look how open and liberal and lefty and hip we all are'.
But Self ID is nothing like gay rights, it's not the same thing at all! I have friends who helped campaign for the same sex referendum who had no idea that was also being pushed through at the time. It's so sinister how it was brought into law without public discussion.
I'm very grateful for Countess etc. but there needs to be more public awareness of this.Sometimes I hate how apathetic we are as a country. I'm eyeing up the UK jealously from across the pond because they are actually having the difficult conversations. We are not even there yet 
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