Policy would be more robust and less likely to lead to absurdities if perception was recognised and acknowledged.| Debbie Hayton
No impact assessment was carried out before an 84% male Dáil passed this dangerous and unnecessary Act in 2015 at the behest of activists. Women never consented to allowing men to "self-id" as women, a safeguarding risk to us and to children.| Women's Space Ireland
Here in Ireland with "self-id" anyone can apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate, and having a criminal record doesn't prevent someone from applying or receiving one either as the Department of Social Protection has confirmed.| Women's Space Ireland
"Imagine a law that allowed white people to declare they are black or adults to declare they are children. There would rightly be uproar. Yet women are supposed to accept that any man can say he’s a woman, or be called a bigot."| Women's Space Ireland
Unbelievably, the submission by the Equality Authority (now part of IHREC, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission) believed that the demands of some men to be legally recognised as the opposite sex should be extended to permit them access to women's changing rooms and toilets.| Women's Space Ireland
With Irish figures showing the same pattern of more than twice as many girls as boys in England being referred with what used to be seen predominantly in adult men, why are we not asking why?| Women's Space Ireland
Between ages 16 to 18 there are 110 women to 46 men yet aged 51+ the sexes are reversed with 3 women to 63 men on the Register. What do young girls have in common with older men?| Women's Space Ireland