Yesterday RT\u00c9 reported on a story which highlighted the confusion at the heart of gender ideology \u2013 and illustrated just how nonsensical, and devoid of reality, reporting can become when said ideology is adhered to.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
This is not about a lack of sympathy for people who experience genuine gender dysphoria \u2013 which is rare, but absolutely exists and must be a hugely distressing experience. What is sometimes called the social contagion effect, o<\/a>r the sudden explosion in the number of adolescents presenting as trans or non-binary, must have contributed to the long waiting lists for professional supports required in genuine cases. But it has also led to the sheer madness of national media platforms describing a homicidal man as \u201cshe\u201d, and male rapists as \u201cwomen\u201d.<\/p>\n At the heart of gender ideology is the desire to tear up what its exponents consider \u201csocial constructs\u201d, such as the biological fact that we are male and female. The disruption this intentionally causes leads to a deliberate denial of reality \u2013 as seen in said court reporting from RT\u00c9 News yesterday.<\/p>\n Her frozen sperm? The ridiculousness, the absurdity, the sheer ludicrousness just jumps out at you. There was more of the gobbledy-gook in the full report, but it should be pointed out that the RT\u00c9 reporting is actually just reflecting the madness in the law.<\/p>\n A UK trans woman, who used her frozen sperm to have a baby with her wife, has been granted permission to bring a High Court challenge against a refusal by the State to grant Irish citizenship to the child on the basis that she is not the biological mother.<\/p>\n The woman \u2013 who has Irish citizenship while her wife does not \u2013 submits that if she has to claim to be the \u201cfather\u201d of the child as part of the application, it would be an \u201coffensive, discriminatory and unjust attack\u201d on her person, gender identity and legal status.<\/p>\n She was granted leave at the High Court to challenge a refusal by the State, which does not recognise her as the birth mother, to enter the child on the Foreign Births Register.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n If your head is swimming,\u00a0 you are not alone. RTE actually turned off comments on the post, which had a million views on X alone, probably because so many responses were directed at the nonsense in the summation.<\/p>\n In short, the case concerns a man who was resident in the UK but has Irish citizenship through lineage. He changed gender under UK law \u2013 which allows a person to legally change sex by applying to a panel \u2013 and then legally married a woman. They used his sperm, presumably through IVF in a UK clinic, to have a baby.<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t the case of a woman who mysteriously produced sperm.<\/p>\n Women can\u2019t produce sperm, or freeze it, or use it to have babies, just as they don\u2019t have penises \u2013 and just as men can\u2019t get pregnant and aren\u2019t mothers. It seems entirely bonkers that we are still having these kinds of conversations, but we are, and much as some commentators would like to believe the fog of insanity has lifted, woke is absolutely not dead, and the law in this country still facilitates gender affirmation and a ridiculously easy path to claiming your sex is changed.<\/p>\n It\u2019s worth repeating again just how easy it is in Ireland to legally change sex, because I don\u2019t actually think most people are aware that a change this fundamental is so easily obtained. The Gender Recognition Act \u2013\u00a0 supported by all the political parties at the time in the D\u00e1il at the height (a sustained height) of hysteria around the issue \u2013\u00a0 requires nothing more than to \u201cself-declare your own identity\u201d. It\u2019s just a matter of swearing a statement to become a woman if you are a man. No need for therapy or operations or any of that bother. Everyone was too terrified of the insane cancel culture at the time to say anything: at one point a Sinn Fein spokesman even said<\/a> they supported allowing children under the age of 16 to take their parents to court in order to change their legal gender without the parents consent, while Fine Gael\u2019s Regina Doherty said there were \u201cat least\u201d 9 genders.<\/p>\n Other countries are slowing coming to the realisation that this might have been a calamitous mistake, but not Ireland, and not, incidentally, the EU who are fully committed to gender affirmation and the wilder shores of gender ideology. It\u2019s still in your kids\u2019 schoolbooks too \u2013 check out SPHE workbooks, and even booklets for primary schools.<\/p>\n In the case before the court yesterday \u2013 which is being taken on behalf of the child through the man-who-is now-legally-a-woman against the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Attorney General and Ireland \u2013 the central complaint is that the Irish state is denying the child Irish citizenship because it does not recognise the applicant as \u201cthe biological mother of the child\u201d.<\/p>\n That\u2019s because facts are hard things. A man can legally change his gender and wish away inconvenient facts, but a person using frozen sperm to conceive a child is not the biological mother of that child.<\/p>\n From RT\u00c9:\u00a0The woman further submits that she could have claimed to be the \u201cfather\u201d of the child and \u201ccould have possibly obtained citizenship by descent that way\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel it would invalidate me as a trans woman, invalidate my legal status as a woman and invalidate my same-sex marriage,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n The woman submits that if she had to claim to be the \u201cfather\u201d of the child, it would be an \u201coffensive, discriminatory and unjust attack\u201d on her person, gender identity, legal status and on same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n The woman also submits this would also be an unjust attack \u201con the State\u2019s obligation to protect the family as the natural and fundamental unit group of society\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n But the applicant can\u2019t have it both ways, and that\u2019s the problem with gender ideology: it eventually relies on a circular argument to respond to fundamental questions such as \u201cWhat Is A Woman?\u201d.<\/p>\n A biological mother does not produce sperm. One can\u2019t claim to be a mother just because your feelings will be hurt if that is denied to you. But the issue here isn\u2019t with RT\u00c9: their reporting merely mirrors the nonsense and the inherent contradictions in gender ideology. For the confusion and upending of reality to stop, the law must change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday RT\u00c9 reported on a story which highlighted the confusion at the heart of gender ideology \u2013 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,102059,6,10476,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,102060,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-180548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-gender-ideology","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-high-court","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-woman-uses-frozen-sperm","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-world-news","25":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115548818290593966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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