{"id":81786,"date":"2025-09-23T20:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/81786\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T20:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:36:18","slug":"michelle-oneills-questionable-biology-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/81786\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle O\u2019Neill\u2019s questionable \u2018biology lesson\u2019\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s official. The lunatics are running the asylum.<\/strong> I say that after watching the North\u2019s First Minister Michelle O\u2019Neill deliver what she termed a \u201cbiology lesson\u201d in the Stormont Chamber on Monday, after a unionist MLA asked her rather bluntly, to clarify \u201cif a woman can have a penis.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor God\u2019s sake,\u201d was the initial mutterings of principal deputy speaker Car\u00e1l N\u00ed Chuil\u00edn. \u201cThat\u2019s absolutely ridiculous, and you\u2019re making a show of yourself,\u201d O\u2019Neill told Traditional Unionist Voice MLA Timothy Gaston.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are fascinated with the definition of a woman. I think that says a lot about you,\u201d O\u2019Neill said. Talk about gaslighting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me ask you directly: Stonewall believes that women can have a penis. First Minister, once again, do you?\u201d Gaston, a representative for North Antrim, asked. Gaston was asking about Stonewall, a charity obsessed with trans dogma, and one that partners with organisations in NI, including the department for Finance, through initiatives like the Diversity Champions Programme and the Workplace Equality Index. Political disagreement with the partnership, and just how far it goes, is no secret.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think I\u2019m going to have to help you out maybe, with a wee bit of a biology lesson,\u201d O\u2019Neill snapped back. \u201cI was born a biological baby girl, I grew into a teenager, and I\u2019m now a fully fledged woman. There are also trans women in our community, and if women can be supportive and inclusive of trans women, then you should also,\u201d she told Gaston.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I fear, the trans community fear, that all you\u2019re interested in is stoking up fear and tensions and hurt. Have a bit of sensitivity. Have a bit of decency.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s worth watching back exchanges like this because there are times when those on the right can feel quite complacent that trans ideology in all of its wackiness has had its day. There have been great victories for common sense, the most significant being the UK Supreme Court\u2019s ruling this April which affirmed that the terms \u201csex,\u201d \u201cman,\u201d and \u201cwoman\u201d indeed refer to a person\u2019s biological sex as recorded at birth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then in the North this month, just as the kids went back to school, Education Minister Paul Givan (DUP) called for the withdrawal<\/a><\/strong> of transgender guidance in schools, saying the ruling has \u201cdirect implications for education policy and practice.\u201d Those who believe men can become women, simply through obtaining a Gender Recognition Cert, as if it\u2019s some kind of magic, are downright ratio\u2019d in the comments on socials. It can feel as though things are looking up. \u201cWe\u2019re so back,\u201d as the Gen-Zers love to say.<\/p>\n

But then you turn on the 6 o\u2019clock news on a Monday evening and you see O\u2019Neill, a woman who made history by becoming the north of Ireland\u2019s first Irish nationalist First Minister, a woman who has been championed and held up as some kind of progressive, modern, feminist icon \u2013 including by Time magazine<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 spouting such utter tripe and you realise that not very much has changed, and there is still a war raging.<\/p>\n

Indeed, in August, \u00a3800,000 was funnelled into more transgender services in the North. The Newsletter reported on an FOI request around that time that revealed that \u201cat least three five-year-olds (and possibly as many as 12 \u2013 the trust refuses to be definitive) have been registered as patients of its Gender Identity Development Service since 2014.\u201d Around that time, I happened to be in Belfast the same Saturday Pride was on. Among the sea of blue and pink trans flags and scantily clad drag queen activists making a racket with boom boxes, more or less every single shop, cafe and restaurant was decorated with some form of Pride memorabilia. Almost like a mark of compliance. It didn\u2019t feel liberating \u2013 it felt oppressive. We love to talk about religion being the ultimate oppressor, but when you see Pride in action and in full force, it feels very much like a new State religion.<\/p>\n

When you read that five-year olds are being referred to Northern Ireland Trusts and registered as \u201ctransgender patients,\u201d you realise that this is not just about an ideology or an argument or a culture war. This is all real and it is happening now, and political leaders are more than happy to plough more money into such \u2018services\u2019 to destroy young children, all whilst telling us we are the hateful ones.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For O\u2019Neill, who received 10,845 votes in my home constituency, it\u2019s violent heresy to say that men and women are biologically different. The only ones speaking any sense are the unionists. Our Catholic, Nationalist politicians in the North have abandoned any semblance of common sense. Biological truth is out the window. The basic truths of their own religion are also out the window (they should have a read of Genesis) \u2013 but that won\u2019t stop O\u2019Neill\u2019s boasts about cutting her own family holiday short to attend the Pope\u2019s funeral, all while claiming to \u201crepresent all those people at home\u201d like some sort of fabulous Catholic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The worst thing about yesterday\u2019s exchange, is that even after Britain\u2019s top court restored sanity to the law, O\u2019Neill, as leader of the largest nationalist party, ignores absolutely all the facts in favour of blind emotion. There is a reason why women are more liberal, and it\u2019s because they are much more emotional than men. O\u2019Neill is a prime example of that when she rages about the stoking up of \u201cfear\u201d and the call for \u201csensitivity.\u201d We know that transgender ideology is having its reckoning day, but it certainly doesn\u2019t feel like it when those running the country gaslight their political opponents when they ask real questions because unless you\u2019re a nice leftie, you\u2019re a bad person.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When you can\u2019t win the argument, when all the science and biology is rapidly stacking against you, play the emotion card. Assert that truth is fiction. Play being Mr or Mrs Nice Guy instead of actually engaging with the arguments. The implication is that yes, you are ridiculous, you are making a show of yourself, and you lack basic decency if you hold the same views as Timothy Gaston. <\/p>\n

It is a deliberate tactic to cow people into silence because your very common sense views, views everyone held twenty years ago, are hateful and we will gaslight you to keep you quiet. It is easy to think the new religion of LGBTQ+ has had its day, but our institutions North and South and the politicians at the helm remain as ideologically captured as ever. People are still gaslit and afraid to speak up because they are afraid of the left, and watching O\u2019Neill\u2019s snideness yesterday, you can see why.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s this kind of dishonest dialogue that stifles free speech and helps us understand why we are now picking up the pieces after a headlong rush towards unsafe medical interventions as opposed to mental health support for those struggling with gender dysphoria.<\/p>\n

As for O\u2019Neill\u2019s biology lesson, well, that\u2019s hilarious. She cannot and will not explain how \u2018trans women\u2019 became women. They just are. As for her assertion that women are all supportive of trans women and so should Gaston be, that is just patently untrue. Nearly every woman I know does not want to share a bathroom with someone born male. It\u2019s a simple case of the emperor\u2019s new clothes. My liberal friends may love going day-drinking and partying at Pride and wearing rainbow face-paint because it\u2019s \u2018cool\u2019; they may be captured by the popularity of the ideology, but I can assure you that none of them actually, genuinely think trans women are women. They know they are not. But they insist on being nice and not ruffling any feathers. <\/p>\n

But it\u2019s being \u2018nice\u2019 that has gotten us in this mess to begin with \u2013 a mess whereby five year olds are now presenting to gender clinics and undergoing transitions. Where, as per the Cass review, children are given puberty blockers, despite unacceptable safety risks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For all their progressive language, those like Michelle O\u2019Neill can be the least nice when it comes to having a mature conversation. The culture war is still happening, and we have to continue playing the game. Truth, not unhinged emotion, has to win out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s official. The lunatics are running the asylum. I say that after watching the North\u2019s First Minister Michelle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,1067,54757,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,6019,5,54758,47,7,8,54759,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-81786","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-culture","11":"tag-culture-war-trans","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-michelle-oneill","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-puberty-blockers","22":"tag-sinn-fein","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories","25":"tag-trans-ideology","26":"tag-world","27":"tag-world-news","28":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81786","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=81786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}