It wasnt that extensive, the research, was it? Who did they ask I wonder?
Transman gets it's own mention, which is hardly gender neutral, seeing as how it is an identity built only on ideological notions of gender. Its sex specific language we want, anyway.
I've used that service and they've been fab.
It's mad isnt it - in a broader sense.
The staff know who they are dealing with. The patients know. It's driving another wedge between the Higher Ups in society and ordinary people. More distrust against the institutions of the state. It's something society doesnt need, particularly in healthcare during a bloody pandemic.
It's this kind of elitism that's contributing to populist politics in general.
Look at the anger caused by the Roderic O'Gorman debacle.
And then, that opposition gets framed as far right - and people turn to the open arms of the actual far right if no one else will have them.
I can see it happening to decent people I know, shuffling rightwards. Because you dont need to be ultra educated to recognise a danger to women and children's rights, but you pretty much do need to be to buy into the convoluted ideology that allows one to brush those concerns off. And once you've picked a side - or should I say, when a side picks you - you're a sitting duck for whatever else they want to throw at you.
Institutions and msm are failing to reveal hidden hand lobbyists, failing the people they are supposed to serve, and wondering why people are turning from them and becoming anti maskers and the like.
Its playing out everywhere, not just Ireland.