To change the Irish constitution there must be a referendum. There is an old fashioned clause in the constitution that refers to women.
“The state recognises that by her life within the home, woman gives to the state a support without which the common good cannot be achieved,” the state will “endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home”.
The referendum is to get rid of that clause. Rightly so. And for UK readers that clause never meant anything in reality but it's time to get rid of it.
BUT now we recently heard in the news they want to use this referendum to introduce another topic. Gender. This is an underhanded means to bring in a new constitutional law. On Gender Equality. We already had the sneaky self id law that none of us had one clue about. This time it is even worse.
Any Irish woman on here knows that the Constitution is one seriously difficult document to change. That is why we women hated the 8th (the clause that banned abortion) and had to have a referendum to put it in there, and several decades and referendums it took to get it out. It's not like a normal law that can be overturned by government. This time women are more aware and when they fully get wind of what is going on, more specifically when Leo is asked about toilets in schools, about Barbie in Limerick's women's prison and asked about whether he believes a man is really a woman if the man says he is, including male rapists then there will be war. But people so far have no clue about much of this. What happened in Scotland has greatly helped though. And the Tavistock.