🗓️ Saturday 27th of this month (April) Save the date! 📓Mark it in your diary. The Countess is hosting a conference in the RDS on the subject of Resisting Ideology, with a great line-up (and not just bcos I'm on it 😜) It will be a comprehensive look at the dangers of [trans]gender ideology (including the #HateSpeech legislation) and the actions we need to take to protect the rights of vulnerable children and women. 🗳️ @TheCountessIE was one of a handful of organisations (voluntary or otherwise) who stood up to the entire* political establishment and the NGO sector, with their goliathan resources. After speaking to so many people around the country it became clear that we were standing together. With TDs, ministers, and of course the ol' NGOs ignoring the message they were sent during the #Referndum24 and trying to forge ahead with the dangerous, unwanted, and unnecessary Hate Offences legislation; plans for pharmacological experiments on minors with gender identity issues; and the continued force feeding of [trans]gender ideology in our schools, we need to send that message again. Louder this time! 🔊Let's make this event one they can't ignore. 🔗for tickets: tickettailor.com/events/thec… ♥️📤 If you wouldn't mind liking and sharing this post, it would be greatly appreciated. #ResistingIdeology #TheCountess #TransWomenAreConMen #GenderIdeology #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #VoteNoNo #VoteNoRef24 #VoteNo #Referendums24 #BinTheBill #nohatespeechlaws

Not one family will be recognised by the insertion of "durable relationships" bcos they would first have to go to court for a judge to decide if they are or not, with no certainty bcos the term is not defined. Amendment 40 actually weakens the obligation on the state to the majority of carers who are women and/or mothers by removing the stronger obligation that is currently there for mothers Article 42B could simply have been added. If that had been the proposal, it would have passed unopposed. #VpteNoNo to the cluelessness of the #VoteYesYes advocates. Don't #VoteYesNo bcos not one family will actually be recognised.

Article 42B could simply have been added. If that had been the proposal, it would have passed unopposed. The majority of carers in this country are women and mothers and a 2022 Care Alliance Ireland survey showed the majority want to be recognised as mothers. The proposed amendment weakens the position for the majority of carers who, again, are women and mothers. #VpteNoNo to the cluelessness of the #VoteYesYes advocates. Don't #VoteYesNo bcos not one family will actually be recognised.

What did Eamonn de Valera have to say about article 41.2, in 1937, in the Dáil? He was aware of the "cheap gibe" about a woman's place being in the home, which was directed at working class women who were forced to work out of economic necessity. "It is a strange position that the sacred word "home" should be omitted." "Deputy MacDermot tells me that I would have been wiser if I had proceeded in another way. Of course I could. I need not have put in the word "home" there, but because the word "home" is mentioned, it brings back to the minds of certain people the fact that there was a very cheap gibe at women who were not able to be in the home either through inclination or the economic necessity which compelled them to work elsewhere—the cheap gibe that their place was in the home. I am not responsible for that gibe, and I am not going to leave the word "home" out of its proper context because there is a gibe associated in some people's minds with it. It is a strange position that the sacred word "home" should be omitted. Well, I am not going to omit it anyhow. As far as I can get any support, it is going to remain, but there is no implication and no suggestion of inferiority as regards other women. There is a just recognition here of the special part that is played by mothers in the home, and there is, further, the indicated intention of the community, through its Legislature, to endeavour to secure that that work, which is so vital to the State, shall not be hindered by economic conditions which force women to work outside. #VoteNoNo to erasing the recognition of the otherwise unrecognised work that women do in raising their families. #VoteNoNo to forcing mothers to work because of economic necessity, in such a way that negatively impacts children. Don't #VoteYesYes and endorse the lies and misinformation of the yes campaign.

Apparently I've earned a "top fan" badge for the NWCI facebook page by telling them they're spreading misinformation.