deirdre o donovan

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deirdre o donovan

deirdre o donovan

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West Cork, Ireland Katılım Kasım 2010
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Colin Wight (not Colin Wright)
I deleted an early post about this because Grok informed me that Maeve’s side won the debate. My fault for not checking further. Now Maeve’s mum (@lucymirandaward ) has given the actual figures (38 ayes, (Maeve’s side), 70 noes, 52 abstentions). So I’ll repeat it. That a speech this good - beautifully delivered, eloquent, coherent, full of passion, backed up with facts - lost the debate indicates just how committed (and I mean committed, not captured) universities are to gender ideology. And in that context it takes real bravery to stand up and tell them just how wrong they are. 70 people listening to this speech (and the other speakers on Maeve’s side) and voting against it is crazy. Hopefully, the abstentions hold out some hope. But because the ideology is so strongly held by university staff turning it around is going to be difficult.
Maeve Halligan@MaeveHalligan

"No, I don't subscribe to this 'kindness' - I'll tell the truth instead." I spoke at the Cambridge Union last night about LGBs, children's safety and women's rights. Full video here:

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Ciarán Cuffe
Ciarán Cuffe@CiaranCuffe·
What a journey! A white-tailed eagle chick that fledged from a nest in the Glengarriff Nature Reserve in County Cork in 2025 has completed this amazing grand tour of Ireland in 48 days. You can find out more here: facebook.com/GlengarriffWoo…
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Brivael Le Pogam
Brivael Le Pogam@brivael·
Je veux présenter mes excuses, au nom des Français, pour avoir enfanté la French Theory (qui a enfanté la pire des merdes idéologiques : le wokisme). Nous avons donné au monde Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. Et puis, dans les ruines intellectuelles de l'après-68, nous avons donné Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Trois hommes brillants qui ont fabriqué, dans l'élégance de notre langue, l'arme idéologique qui paralyse aujourd'hui l'Occident. Il faut comprendre ce qu'ils ont fait. Foucault a enseigné que la vérité n'existe pas, qu'il n'y a que des rapports de pouvoir déguisés en savoir. Que la science, la raison, la justice, l'institution médicale, l'école, la prison, la sexualité, tout n'est qu'une mise en scène de la domination. Derrida a enseigné que les textes n'ont pas de sens stable, que tout signifiant glisse, que toute lecture est une trahison, que l'auteur est mort et que le lecteur règne. Deleuze a enseigné qu'il fallait préférer le rhizome à l'arbre, le nomade au sédentaire, le désir à la loi, le devenir à l'être, la différence à l'identité. Pris isolément, ce sont des thèses discutables. Combinées, exportées, vulgarisées, elles forment un système. Et ce système est un poison. Car voici ce qui s'est passé. Ces textes, illisibles en France, ont traversé l'Atlantique. Les départements de Yale, de Berkeley, de Columbia les ont absorbés dans les années 80. Ils y ont trouvé un terreau qui n'existait pas chez nous : le puritanisme américain, sa culpabilité raciale, son obsession identitaire. La French Theory s'est mariée à ce substrat, et l'enfant de ce mariage s'appelle le wokisme. Judith Butler lit Foucault et invente le genre performatif. Edward Said lit Foucault et invente le post-colonialisme académique. Kimberlé Crenshaw hérite du cadre et invente l'intersectionnalité. À chaque étape, la matrice est française : il n'y a pas de vérité, il n'y a que du pouvoir, donc toute hiérarchie est suspecte, toute institution est oppressive, toute norme est violence, toute identité est construite donc négociable, toute majorité est coupable. Voilà comment trois philosophes parisiens, qui n'ont probablement jamais imaginé leurs conséquences pratiques, ont fourni le logiciel d'exploitation à une génération entière d'activistes, de bureaucrates universitaires, de DRH, de journalistes, de législateurs. Voilà comment on a obtenu une civilisation qui ne sait plus dire si une femme est une femme, si sa propre histoire mérite d'être défendue, si le mérite existe, si la vérité se distingue de l'opinion. C'est de la merde pour une raison simple, et il faut la dire calmement. Une civilisation se tient debout sur trois piliers : la croyance qu'il existe une vérité accessible à la raison, la croyance qu'il existe un bien distinct du mal, la croyance qu'il existe un héritage à transmettre. La French Theory a entrepris de dynamiter les trois. Pas par méchanceté. Par jeu intellectuel, par fascination du soupçon, par haine de la bourgeoisie qui les avait nourris. Mais le résultat est là. Une génération entière a appris à déconstruire et n'a jamais appris à construire. Une génération entière sait soupçonner et ne sait plus admirer. Une génération entière voit le pouvoir partout et la beauté nulle part. Je m'excuse parce que nous, Français, avons une responsabilité particulière. C'est notre langue, nos universités, nos éditeurs, notre prestige qui ont donné à ce nihilisme son emballage chic. Sans la légitimité de la Sorbonne et de Vincennes, ces idées n'auraient jamais traversé l'océan. Nous avons exporté le doute comme d'autres exportent des armes. Ce qui se construit maintenant, en silicon valley, dans les labos d'IA, dans les startups, dans les ateliers, dans tous les lieux où des gens fabriquent encore des choses au lieu de les déconstruire, c'est la réponse. Une civilisation se reconstruit par les bâtisseurs, pas par les commentateurs. Par ceux qui croient que la vérité existe et qu'elle vaut qu'on s'y consacre. Par ceux qui assument une hiérarchie du beau, du vrai, du bon, et qui n'ont pas honte de la transmettre. Alors pardon. Et au travail.
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The Countess
The Countess@TheCountessIE·
Of interest to people eligible to vote in the Galway West bi-election, if you are concerned with the effects of gender identity on children. Senator Kyne still believes that “young people know their gender” and should socially transition under 16s. The Cass Review warns that social transition is not a neutral act. It’s an active intervention that can lock children into a path of persistence, PBs, cross-sex hormones, & lifelong medical interventions. Most gender dysphoric children will desist naturally before affirmation become policy. @SeanKyneGalway needs to update his knowledge in this area. A recent Finnish study (Ruuska/Kalyiala et al.) used nationwide health registries with near-complete data and no loss to follow up, long term tracking, & matched controls. They found: Higher psychiatric needs than controls before referrals. This worsened or persisted after referral/treatment. Among those who got medical gender reassignment surgery, psychiatric needs increased markedly from 10% to 61%. There was no evidence of the expected mental health improvements. Cormorbidities often intensified. We need to tread very carefully where the health and future lives of children and young people are at stake. We depend on policy makers to be fully informed and not driven by ideology.
gript@griptmedia

Galway West frontrunner Sean Kyne says he is the "most experienced candidate" in the race, and discusses the fuel protests, delivering local services, preserving the Irish language, and whether children under 16 should be able to change their gender:

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Brivael Le Pogam
Brivael Le Pogam@brivael·
Tu confonds deux choses, et c'est exactement le piège que la French Theory a tendu. Liberté, égalité, fraternité — égalité *de droits*, égalité *devant la loi*, égalité *de dignité*. C'est la promesse républicaine, et personne ici ne l'attaque. Le wokisme, ce n'est pas ça. C'est l'égalitarisme des résultats. Et l'égalitarisme des résultats, contrairement à l'égalité des droits, n'est pas un élargissement de la liberté — c'est sa négation. Quelques exemples concrets : — San Francisco supprime les classes de maths avancées au collège pour "réduire les inégalités". Résultat : les écarts entre élèves explosent, les familles aisées prennent des cours privés, les pauvres se font enterrer. L'égalitarisme a creusé l'inégalité. — Les politiques de discrimination positive à Harvard : étudiants admis avec des scores très en dessous de leurs camarades, taux d'échec dispropportionné, sentiment d'imposture, ressentiment généralisé. On a saboté ceux qu'on voulait aider. — L'aide humanitaire qui distribue du riz gratuit pendant 30 ans en Afrique : effondrement des filières agricoles locales, dépendance institutionnalisée. Donner un poisson, c'est empêcher d'apprendre à pêcher. Le wokisme ne détruit pas l'humanité dans le sens dramatique. Il fait pire : il dessert systématiquement ceux qu'il prétend protéger, et il génère du ressentiment des deux côtés — ceux qu'on infantilise et ceux qu'on culpabilise. La fraternité républicaine dit : tu es mon égal, donc je te traite en adulte capable. Le wokisme dit : tu es ma victime, donc je dois te protéger de toi-même. L'un élève. L'autre infantilise. Ce n'est pas la même chose, et confondre les deux est exactement le tour de passe-passe qu'on dénonce.
Eduardo Suarez@EduardoSuarez25

@brivael Francia exporta libertad, igualdad y fraternidad desde hace 237 años. Quienes invocan el "wokismo" como destrucción de la humanidad simplemente reflejan su falta de respeto de la identidad ajena, y su necedad de valores, mientras piden respeto a sus ideas niegan las de los demás.

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suzanne moore
suzanne moore@suzanne_moore·
Everything some of us said was happening WAS happening. The BBC would simply not engage with the sex realist argument in any shape or form.
Sonia Sodha@soniasodha

Essential reading from @RobBurl. As I've said before, no one who denies the BBC's long history of bias on trans issues can call themselves its friend. Rooting it out is key to its survival. It must be a priority for Matt Brittin. unherd.com/2026/05/inside…

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🇨🇦 Women Exist ♀
🇨🇦 Women Exist ♀@Women___Exist·
“If we don’t have these rights to truth and reality, we have nothing.” — Sall Grover
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Sall Grover
Sall Grover@salltweets·
The message being sent to women & girls is “don’t speak up. Don’t fight back. Don’t challenge us. You will be punished.”
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Maeve Halligan
Maeve Halligan@MaeveHalligan·
"No, I don't subscribe to this 'kindness' - I'll tell the truth instead." I spoke at the Cambridge Union last night about LGBs, children's safety and women's rights. Full video here:
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The Countess
The Countess@TheCountessIE·
The President of Ireland Catherine Connolly has become Patron of controversial trans charity BeLongTo. @PresidentIRL Belongto actively campaigns on Trans and gender identity legislation, pushes gender ideology into schools acrosss Ireland and campaigns for "gender affirming" heatlhcare. Catherine Connolly ran her presidential campaign promising to be a "President for All". That's looking extremely unlikely now.
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Cllr Linda de Courcy MSc. 🇮🇪
This is the new Wellbeing Curriculum for primary school children. It is being rolled out between now and 2030. On page 8 they claim they are providing "accurate...information" about sexuality, yet on page 24 they tell children that sexual orientation is "attraction to someone of a different GENDER, the same GENDER or more than one GENDER". This is gender ideology, not education. There is nothing accurate about lying to children. @Education_Ire you ought to be ashamed of yourselves!
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Connie Shaw
Connie Shaw@_ConnieShaw·
MAEVE FRICKING HALLIGAN 🔥🔥🔥🔥 This is Maeve's full speech from last night vs Helen Webberley and others. It will go down in history as a defining moment in the struggle for women and LGBs in the face of trans ideology. Helen Webberley is called out and a trans person in the audience even calls Webberley "nothing but a grifter" to her face.
Maeve Halligan@MaeveHalligan

"No, I don't subscribe to this 'kindness' - I'll tell the truth instead." I spoke at the Cambridge Union last night about LGBs, children's safety and women's rights. Full video here:

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Stephanie Bastiaan
Stephanie Bastiaan@stephbastiaan·
The Full Federal Court has handed down its judgement in Giggle v Tickle. In a shock to women across the country - Sall Grover not only lost her appeal, the Court set aside the original finding of indirect discrimination and replaced it with direct discrimination, upholding Tickle's cross-appeal. The damages were doubled from $10,000 to $20,000. It’s important to note the Court expressly said it was only applying the Sex Discrimination Act as it is written- it is "not empowered to give effect to its own view" about whether that law is desirable. In 2013, @JuliaGillard’s @AustralianLabor government amended the Sex Discrimination Act- stripping the meaning out of "man" and "woman" and adding gender identity as a protected attribute to be pitted against biological sex. Today's outcome is proof of what those amendments have done: women are left with no meaningful rights or recognition under the Sex Discrimination Act - a bitter irony, given that protecting women was the very purpose of the Act under our commitment to CEDAW. In my opinion, this is a verdict on the law, not on Sall. The judges found that the law - as that government amended it - left them no other conclusion. These amendments must be repealed. The Sex Discrimination Act must once again recognise biological reality and protect women's right to single-sex spaces. What a dark and devastating day for Australian women and girls. #RepealTheSDA2013 #IStandWithSallGrover #GigglevTickle #Auspol
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All of the ponds may include biological males and biological females -there is no actual discrimination against women as they are (theoretically) equally free to ‘identify’ as they wish- but the decision holds biology is not the primary consideration and are hoping new privacy arrangements will bring it within the Supreme Court ruling
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Gay Not Queer
Gay Not Queer@Gaynotqueer1·
Row, row, row your boat somewhere else, lads.
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Wings Over Scotland
Wings Over Scotland@WingsScotland·
A very useful screenshot to keep about your person.
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Paul Embery
Paul Embery@PaulEmbery·
Denis Healey, one of six formidable candidates in Labour's 1976 leadership election, was a grammar school boy from Yorkshire who achieved a double first in classics at Oxford, served in the second world war (including as beachmaster at the Battle of Anzio), was mentioned in dispatches, demobbed as a major, spoke several foreign languages, and was a gifted amateur painter and pianist and all-round aficionado of the arts. My piece examining the decline in calibre of British parliamentarians. paulembery.com/p/titans-and-p…
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Helen Joyce
Helen Joyce@HJoyceGender·
This judgment should send shockwaves through NHS and beyond. It is to my knowledge the 1st to decide that allowing trans identifying men into women's workplace facilities is in itself discrimination and harassment against women.
Maya Forstater@MForstater

📣 @FayeRCTribunal who has won her case against NHS England! Congratulations to Naomi Cunningham and Liz McGlone representing 👏👏👏 Tribunal finds the policy of permitting "trans women" to use female facilities was harassment in relation to sex & GC belief and its trans equality proceedure was harassment in relation to GC belief.

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Estelle Birdy Booky Thingies
This is not just about one school in Dublin. The Department of Education and Youth @Education_Ire is fully aware that there is a problem with removing single sex provision in schools. In 2021, it was discovered that the DEY was going to make mixed-sex toilets MANDATORY in all new school builds. There was massive public outcry and the DEY the stated that mixed-sex toilets were NOT mandatory and that any decision to remove single-sex provision would be wholly up to the school’s own management. The plans for Harold’s Cross Educate Together Secondary School, submitted that same year, AFTER the public furore showed perfectly normal single-sex toilets with doorways for privacy. In 2023, the school mentioned in the article below tried to pull the same stunt as HCETSS is doing now. Again, there was a massive public outcry, lots of media attention, and single sex provision was restored. This has happened in other schools too. But no one in school management or in the DEY can possibly be unaware that mixed-sex toilets are considered by the vast majority of people in this country to be wholly inappropriate in schools. And yet, they continue to try to force this upon students and parents. Why? What forces are at work here that cause them to do this, knowing full well the blow back they’re going to get. irishexaminer.com/news/munster/a…
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