Thank goodness, you have all seen the thought-void piece by Jennifer O'Connell in the I.T.
Jennifer should be wise enough to language, to be able to analyse the discourse, and recognise the inherent contradictions and totalitarian, rigid thinking used by trans activists. Painting JK as "anti-trans" instead of "pro-biological woman" is a long running slur on JKR.
Jennifer O'Connell should be wise enough to the intolerant power dynamics in Irish society to recognise that the mis-use of language is an old saw. The old power structures- "they haven't gone away, you know".
What used to be intolerance promoted by a "muscular" and deviant form of Catholicism, aided by insecure nationalism; has mutated with the same virulence but under another form.
Underlying it is an insecurity about Irish identity; an Irish identity that is more than "tiocfaidh ár lá" or "The Angelus" or "to hell with the Brits". An Irish identity that doesn't need to be the "best little country in the world....shur aren't we great?".
That insecurity surfaces when women start to talk about this issue.
It is immediately branded as "imported" "West Brit" ...but it is really a rebranding of the viral, vehement and violent distaste for biological women, that is evident when you look back at Gay Byrne's interview with Annie Murphy. Or, when you review the ordeal Joanne Hayes underwent at the hands of the State.
That's our history, for those of you who think it started at the repeal referendum.
Jennifer needs to review that, and consider if we are looking at another scandal at the level of babies in sewers and Ann Lovett.
All those scandals rest on unresolved post-colonial shame, projected on to women.