Gender Critical in Ireland Part 3

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I’m watching RTE news. They mentioned the Garda representatives organisation are concerned about Gender Identity in the workplace. It’s been brought in without consultation & without training.

the Garda Commissioner has said that Garda may be disciplined for misgendering.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

One final push, if you haven't or know someone who hasn't voted, please, please, please exercise your democratic right.

This is the few times we get to tell the government what we think.

Whatever you vote please just vote.

Hopefully it will be busy from 5 to 10.

It's great to see women being celebrated like this, and I don't like to quibble....but isn't it odd how they have chosen to depict Mary Ann McCracken?

"Mary Ann is depicted handing out abolitionist leaflets while wearing a Wedgewood anti-slavery badge".

She was indeed an abolitionist amongst other very admirable things, but it is as a supporter, and probably member, of the United Irishmen in 1798 that she is best known. The image of her walking arm in arm with her brother Henry Joy McCracken to his execution (the gallows was not far from where her statue is now located) is the one that sticks in the mind, not handing out leaflets.

It's fairly recently that the part played in the fight for Irish independence by women like Mary Anne, and Presbyterians like the McCracken family, has been fully researched and celebrated. It's disappointing that her statue doesn't honour that most dangerous and courageous aspect of her life.

Maybe presenting her anti-slavery aspect (I'm making her sound like a goddess) first, and sucking people in that way so that they can then be whacked with 1798 and all that went with it, was deliberate - the whole 'Catholic Protestant and Dissenter' thing has different resonance in the North - and is one of the things that makes her being represented at this time so important.

Early reports are saying this could be a NO!!
I'm not getting my hopes up but am a bit excited as I had thought YES had it easily

Yes, me too - cautiously optimistic about No/No.
I also await the blame game while the government tries to deflect this embarrassing waste of time and money.

We aren't the electorate they want, unfortunately.

🎶 it's beginning to look a lot like No/No 🎶☺

@MarieDeGournay 😂

The Countess.ie not holding back here

'The cold lizard heart of neoliberalism'? Really, The Countess?? You're dipping into the same box of hyperbolic metaphors where the rights-hoarding dinosaur was found!

Only one political party - a tiny one - supported No/No. All the other opposition parties supported Yes/Yes, and, having wiped the egg off their faces, are now blaming the Government for doing it all wrong, rather than facing up to being so out of touch with their electorate.

A huge slap in the face for the government today. A woman's place is in the Constitution and I'm so glad it's staying there ☺️

I'm just too happy today to be pedantic about origins of metaphors!

I'd say that on Terf Island, being called a rights hoarding dinosaur is practically a matter of pride now, reclaimed from the original Lammy insult. The language and meaning have moved on.

Thank you to all the No No-ers.

https://x.com/SeanDubIreland/status/1766523616265478223?s=20

This wins the Internet for today 😂

Don't forget, Labour, Sinn Fein and Paul Murphy plus the NGOs all also wanted a Yes vote

Tweet of the day for me! Sums it all up beautifully!

Most galling of all is the absolute waste of time and money allotted to this nonsense of a referendum. Thank goodness sanity prevailed.

So happy and relieved today that common sense prevailed!

I'm loving all the 'sad face' photos everywhere of Leo et al. 😂

This is gas @Fubbs !! Mná for the win. I'm so smug & gleeful all day🍾🥂

I had resigned myself to a close win for Yes (and managed to convince myself as I was walking home from the polling station that I'd accidentally voted Yes until I saw the ballot paper layout HOURS later, I'd voted at 7.05 yesterday morning so it felt like aaaaaaaaaaaaaages!) so my delight today is even greater than my relief yesterday 😁

@Fubbs I was same. I was very confident yesterday evening, less optimistic going to bed due to no exit polls... Woke up feeling pessimistic then the magic happened & common sense prevailed!

What a great weekend it has turned out to be!

It was such a waste of money in the first place but now I am so glad that they called the referendum. I had felt quite isolated in my terfy beliefs. In the lead up when gently discussing it, I discovered a few more undercover terfs but still felt it was possibly a minority view. I feel really encouraged by the NO landslide :)

Now to construct an email to the school about the new RSE curriculum...

@Demented101 100%. Really worried about the primary curriculum . This cracked me up. Panti got cancelled last night along with the Yes sides victory party🤣 Panti no doubt was to be master of ceremonies!

Pretty sure the person who initially posted that said it was intended as satire and wasn’t true. There was an image taken from somewhere else.

Ah no!! That's a shame, although how much would the celebration party have added to the 23 million.
Panti is uncharacteristically quiet this weekend.