Ireland's Call
Update 477. Irish Election Special. #BeMorePorcupine
The Irish General Election is on 29 November and this special looks at the policies of the ten major parties taking part on the issues of gender ideology and free speech. There are links to their manifestoes and policies for those who want to investigate their positions on other issues.
Firstly, Gript News have launched a new service for subscribers - a tracker showing how TDs ( (Teachta Dála, Member of the Dáil) voted in relation to free speech, abortion, gender recognition, climate change and carbon taxes, and the EU Migration Pact. That’s only an initial list, and they will be adding new votes to the tracker over the coming days.
You can access the tracker at the following link.
https://gript.ie/vote-tracker/
This analysis (from me, that is) took a lot of effort, I must say, to scroll through manifestoes and policy documents, effort that I am very happy to put in but I would appreciate it if you could consider becoming a paid subscriber to help me in this hard work or else buy me a coffee. Thanks to all my subscribers for their support.
If I have left anything out or got anything wrong please let me know.
Aontú
Free Speech
Aontú opposes all forms of discrimination, and we oppose all incitement to violence. All forms of discrimination are wrong. Everyone who lives in this country, who is a citizen of this country must have equal rights. The colour of a persons skin is of no more important than the colour of their eyes. A republic is built on the foundation stone that all citizens are equal. Aontú believes in the idea of a liberal democracy where Freedom of Speech is protected at all costs. In history censorship has never ended well. Censorship is authoritarian. It deletes the liberty of the citizen. It deletes the competition of ideas. It reduces the ability to challenge and to test the prevailing ideologies. Shockingly, Fine Gael, FF and the Green party, with the support of most of the opposition, have been attempting to bring in Hate Speech Laws which would land people in jail for having the wrong opinion. Aontú have resisted their attempts thus far, but they are still persisting and promising to bring more legislation under their next government. Aontú will continue to oppose, speak, and vote against censorship laws.
Education
Aontú believe in a pluralist education system in Ireland. Parents should be able to choose the ethos, within reason, within which their children receive education. It must remembered that parents are employing the Department of Education to teach their children. The Minister for Education and the Department must listen to parents. Education should be science based. It should be fact based. It should be age appropriate. It should not be based upon ideology or the latest intellectual fashion. Many parents are deeply concerned that much of new curriculum in schools is veering strongly towards ideology. This was evident in the recent schoolbooks that caricatured a traditional Irish family as negative, inward looking and regressive. This caused a major outcry. The offending article in school books was shocking. The article negatively stereotype Irish people, Irish families and Irish culture. Ireland has a rich and vibrant cultural heritage that is loved across the world. Irish culture is unique and a key part of the diversity of the world. It’s something to be proud of and celebrated.
Concerns About SPHE
A number of teachers who attended a recent DCU course were shocked at the explicit nature of materials used. They were also shocked that the ethos being taught was in direct contraction of the ethos of their schools. Due to pressure raised by Aontú and others a number of government Ministers and TDs publicly rebuked the content. They also reported that Minister Norma Foley did not agree with the content either. The problem here is that FF and FG ministers have been too weak to stand up for the concerns of parents. The General Secretary of the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland has written to School Stewards to say that the SPHE and RSE programmes includes “sensitive issues” and that “teachers should only teach material they feel they are comfortable and competent to teach. · Aontú will ensure that all SPHE and associated materials adhere to the ethos of the parents and schools their children are being taught in. · Aontú will ensure that students are taught about the growing dangers that exist to women and children because of the use of pornography. · Aontú will ensure at all teaching is based on fact and science and is age appropriate.
Gender Ideology
Aontú believes that a woman is a female adult. We don’t believe that men can be pregnant or can give birth. It shows you how far the political establishment has travelled from fact and science that Aontú is the only party in the Dáil that can make those two statements. Aontú believes in a compassionate pluralist Republic. All citizens are equal and valued no matter what their identity, ethnicity, religion or orientation. Everyone should be treated on the basis of their own individual character. Gender dysphoria is real and is not easy for anyone. We need to treat all our citizens with respect and decency. It is also really important that we have a society that is based on science and evidence. Evidence and science are not optional extras, they are critical in the development in a just and fair society. Over the last 10 years the government and campaign groups have embarked on a significant campaign of social engineering. Incredibly the government have tried to delete the word ‘woman’ from many different areas in society. They tried to delete the word ‘woman’ from maternity legislation. Most recently, all of the political parties other than Aontú have tried to delete the word ‘mother’ from the constitution. The HSE uses words such as ‘chest feeding’ instead of ‘breast feeding’. HSE cervical check literature uses the term ‘people with a cervix’ instead of the word ‘woman’. Teachers who have been told on ‘in service days’ not to use the words ‘mother’ and ‘father’ in class, because they are not inclusive enough. The NCCA have links on their website to source material for teachers that advise teachers not to use the words ‘boys’ and ‘girls’ in class for the same reason. The former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar put pressure on Irish Rugby to reverse their decision to make Women’s rugby, female only, this despite the scientific evidence that shows the damage male-born players can do to female players and the negation of fair competition. Professor Donal O'Shea of the National Gender Service, a service that is deeply committed to supporting people with gender dysphoria, stated at an Oireachtas Committee that activists are 'brainwashing' politicians and HSE management when it comes to proposed new gender recognition laws. Those who speak out are being shut down. J K Rowling could wallpaper her home with all of the death threats and threats to rape her she has received simply because she has stated that a woman is a female adult. The government sought to introduce a “Hate Speech Bill” to create a chilling effect for people who respectfully sought to challenge this ideology. Young Gay and Lesbian people are told that they are not gay but they are in the wrong body. Gender affirmation in our schools is ignoring the potential that comorbidities children may have can lead them to question their gender. Gender affirmation in our schools is ignoring the potential that co-morbidities children may have can lead them to question their gender. Gender affirmation can put children on a path that can lead to chemicals, puberty blockers and irreversible surgery, while the co-morbidities causing the difficulties remained untreated. Gender affirmation treatments can destroy a person’s fertility and cause serious health damage. It is leading to some people de-transitioning after the damage has been done. Due to the damage being caused to children, many other European countries are reverting to evidence-based medicine and rejecting gender affirmation treatments for children. · Aontú believes that women and girls have the right to female-only safe spaces. · Aontú believes that sports should be based on fairness and women should be allowed to participate in women only sports. · Aontú believes that all education in schools should be based on science and not ideology. · Aontú seeks to repeal the Gender Recognition Act to end the shocking government practice of male born sex offenders being placed in women’s prisons. We have already tabled legislation to this end. · Aontú will end the practice of deleting the word ‘woman’, ‘mother’ or ‘girl’ being removed from legislation, our health service and from education.
The Manifesto is here:
https://aontu.ie/manifesto-general-election-2024
Fianna Fáil
I can find very little in their Manifesto about gender ideology or free speech:
Continue to improve investment in and access to a range of health services for LGBTQI+ people and provide for a more inclusive health and social care environment.
Enact legislation to ban conversion practices that violate individual rights.
The Manifesto is here:
Fine Gael
LGBTQI+
Fine Gael is dedicated to advocating for the rights and well-being of the LGBTQI+ community in Ireland and globally. We will: Fine Gael will: • Speak up for the LGBTQI+ community: We will actively advocate for the rights of LGBTQI+ individuals both in Ireland and internationally. • Utilise our influence in international debates: We will engage in discussions at key international forums, including the EU and the UN, to uphold the universal nature of human rights, ensuring that these rights apply equally to all individuals, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic. • Support the National LGBTI+ Inclusion Strategy to 2028: We will back this strategy, which focuses on safety, health and well-being, participation and inclusion, and equality and non-discrimination. • Introduce a law to disregard certain historical convictions: We will implement legislation to disregard specific criminal convictions related to consensual sexual activity, addressing injustices from the past. These initiatives will strengthen the rights and protections for the LGBTQI+ community, fostering an inclusive and equitable society for all.
The Manifesto is here:
https://www.finegael.ie/app/uploads/2024/11/Fine-Gael-General-Election-2024-Manifesto.pdf
The Green Party
Roderic O’Gorman, the Leader of the Greens
Ensure legislative protections for trans and intersex people.
We will: • Invest in dedicated LGBTQI+ health services, including HIV supports, PrEP, PEP, and rapid HIV testing, with the goal of ending new HIV transmissions. • Implement a community-based, person centred model of trans healthcare, ensuring universal access to evidence based care. Our policy will be guided by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.
The Manifesto is here:
The Irish Freedom Party
A Society of Liberty is based on Free Speech. We believe in a society of liberty with a free and diverse media which supports free speech, freedom of association and freedom of religion.
People must be free to think and express their views and this also benefits society.
A culture of political correctness and shutting down debate on vital issues does not serve the common good or protect the rights of individuals, institutions and communities within Ireland.
As an American justice once argued;
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas, that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.
Another function of freedom of expression is based on citizen participation in democracy: persons cannot intelligently make independent judgments in a self-governing society unless they are permitted to hear all possible views in relation to the issue in question.
We believe in the equality of all Irish citizens before the law, oppose racism and sexism and the dominance of public policy by vested interests and privileged “golden circles”. Our aim is an Ireland ran for the maximum benefit of the people, not a privileged few. We want a country dedicated to freedom, human flourishing and prosperity
The Irish Freedom Party will actively campaign for free speech especially given the encroaching power of online corporations to curb the voice of ordinary people. We will also campaign for increased diversity of media ownership.
Quite rightly, Ireland has laws against libel and incitement to violence etc. and all people have a right to be protected but so too should free speech.
The Irish Freedom Party will also campaign against the abuse of taxpayers’ money which some political parties wish to funnel into funding their chosen media outlets.
[Dusty - I could find nothing on their website about gender ideology!!??]
Their website is here;
https://www.irishfreedom.ie/policies/
The Labour Party
LGBTQI+ RIGHTS
Our mission is to make Ireland the best place in Europe to be a member of the LGBTQI+ community and build on Labour’s proud track record of supporting and advancing the rights of LGBTQI+ people. Labour will enhance the legal rights and protections in place for LGBTQI+ people, invest in dedicated health services, improve access to trans healthcare, implement inclusive education, tackle hate crime and expand community supports. IMPROVING RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS Labour will implement a number of legislative changes including a hate speech law as already outlined and introduce reforms to improve rights and protections for members of the LGBTQI+ community. We will: Pass legislation to disregard pre-1993 historical convictions for consensual same sex activity building on the historic State apology to members of the LGBTQI+ community that was secured by Labour in 2018. Ban conversion therapy and sign the Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy. Ensure equality for children of LGBTQI+ people and legal recognition of trans parents by amending the Assisted Human Reproduction Act and reforming the Children and Family Relationships Act. Reform the legal gender recognition system for young trans people based on the recommendations of the Review of the Gender Recognition Act 2015. Provide legal gender recognition for non binary people and legislate for the rights of intersex people. Provide explicit protections for LGBTQI+ people when updating the Equality Acts. Support initiatives promoting LGBTQI+ rights internationally and protect the rights of asylum seekers and refugees. HEALTHCARE Ireland consistently ranks last in the EU for the provision of, and access to, trans healthcare and Labour will change this. We will make sure that all members of the LGBTQI+ community can access the healthcare that they need and expand and improve on existing services. We will: Provide a model of gender-affirming care in primary care settings based on informed consent and international best practice. Increase funding to end new HIV transmissions with resources focused on improved accessibility to PrEP, free condoms, and rapid HIV testing. Increase access to sexual health services for men who have sex with men by supporting community based and delivered services as well as enhanced HSE services and provide dedicated supports for lesbian and bi women. Ensure mental health, early intervention and residential care and homecare services have dedicated LGBTQI+ supports in place, and that training for health and social care professionals includes community perspectives. EDUCATION, COMMUNITY AND SOCIETY While Ireland has made great strides in becoming a more accepting society, being LGBTQI+ remains a difficult experience for many people. Labour will: Continue to tackle anti-LGBTQI+ bullying to make schools safer and more inclusive places and build on the positive trend of third-level institutions becoming more LGBTQI+ friendly. Improve LGBTQI+ community support services and initiatives, and expand the support provided to Pride festivals and new events in rural Ireland. Boost visibility in the media and make funding available for LGBTQI+ programming. Ensure LGBTQI+ inclusion in sport in line with international best practice. Use the community sector including partnership companies and family resource centres to provide localised LGBTQI+ inclusion and support. Promote inclusive LGBTQI+ education curriculums, support local authorities in promoting LGBTQI+ friendly libraries and protect library staff. Utilise new proposed census questions to identity LGBTQI+ needs.
The Manifesto is here:
https://labour.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Labour-Manifesto-2024-Building-Better-Together.pdf
The National Alliance
Removing Divisive Ideologies from Education:
Ban the teaching of gender identity theories in schools, returning the focus to biological facts and leaving discussions of gender and sexuality to parents and families, not the classroom.
Eliminate Critical Race Theory (CRT), queer theory, and identity politics from all levels of the curriculum. These ideologies, which divide students based on race, gender, and sexual identity, have no place in the classroom. Instead, education should promote unity, equal opportunity, and a shared national identity.
Restore Ireland’s educational focus on academic excellence, practical skills, and civic responsibility, ensuring all students are prepared for the future without ideological interference.
Create a review board of educators and parents to evaluate and approve all new educational content, ensuring it is free from ideological bias and promotes shared national values.
Protecting Children from Inappropriate Content:
Remove highly sexualized content and pornography from all levels of the curriculum. Education should provide age-appropriate information about human biology and health, not graphic or ideological materials that undermine the innocence of childhood.
Implement a strict "Age-Appropriate Content Policy" that ensures any education on relationships and health respects traditional family values and shields students from unnecessary exposure to explicit content.
Require full parental transparency for any changes to sex education curricula, allowing parents the right to review and opt out of material they deem inappropriate for their children.
The blocking of pornographic websites and services by ISPs (Internet Service Providers) by default unless requested by the account holder. …
5. Supporting Parental Rights and Local Communities:
Give parents more control over the content being taught to their children. Parents will have the right to opt out of any curriculum materials that contradict their family’s values or personal beliefs.
Establish local education councils that include parents, educators, and community leaders to ensure that schools reflect the needs and values of their communities, rather than top-down directives.
Ensure that schools are transparent and accountable for the content they provide, giving parents direct involvement in decisions affecting their children’s education.
Their website is here:
https://www.nationalalliance.ie/
Sinn Féin
We welcome the progress secured by the LGBTQI+ community in recent years. These rights were hard fought for over many decades by activists who refused to be deterred in their fight to be recognised as equal before the law. Next year will mark 10 years since the passing of the marriage equality referendum and gender recognition. Despite the clear progress we have seen in many areas, the struggle for full LGBTQI+ equality is far from over. Many areas of inequality remain, and more work is required to ensure that true equality is achieved. Sinn Féin condemns the increasing attacks on LGBTQI+ people. We reject transphobia and homophobia in Ireland and overseas. Everyone has a right to live free from violence, persecution, discrimination and stigma. Sinn Féin is committed to seeing the fight for equality through.
Sinn Féin would not introduce hate speech laws and we would repeal the government’s Criminal Justice (Hate Offences) Act because we believe that freedom of speech is a core component of democracy and that governments should not be allowed to censor the public in their own partisan interests.
The Manifesto is here:
https://vote.sinnfein.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/SinnFeinManifesto2024.pdf
The Social Democrats
Health.
Endeavour to support LGBTQI+ competent service provision – including professional training and reviewing policies and procedures. ➢ Ensure treatment and care is LGBTQI+ sensitive. ➢ Conduct further research and evaluation of mental health services, ensuring continuous consultation with LGBTQI+ mental health service users.
LGBTQI+ Rights [ Dusty - Big breath, Terven, before you read this]
Over the last 30 years, Ireland has made significant progress in terms of LGBTQI+ equality and acceptance. The successful Marriage Equality Referendum in May 2015, and the Gender Recognition Act of the same year, were important moments on that journey of change. But there are still rights and struggles to be won to ensure that all LGBTQI+ people and their families are treated equally across all aspects of Irish society. Right now, Ireland is ranked 15th in Europe in terms of LGBTQI+ human rights and policy protections. We support the goal of getting to No. 1 and making Ireland the best place in Europe to be LGBTQI+. Legislative Reform In Government the Social Democrats will: ➢ Introduce a National Action Plan Against Hate Crimes to prevent and reduce hate crimes against the LGBTQI+ community. ➢ Amend the Assisted Human Reproduction Act and reform the Children and Family Relationships Act to ensure equality for children of LGBTQI+ people and ensure full legal recognition for trans parents. ➢ Enhance the Equal Status Act and the Employment Equality Act to provide explicit protections for all LGBTQI+ people. ➢ Implement the recommendations of the Government’s Review of the Gender Recognition Act to provide legal gender recognition to non-binary people and trans people aged 16 and older. ➢ Legislate to protect the rights of intersex people – including a ban on infant genital mutilation. Other Priorities In Government, the Social Democrats will: ➢ Introduce a second National LGBTQI+ Inclusion Strategy with enhanced funding, clear targets, and additional staff resources. ➢ End conversion practices. ➢ Improve access to trans-affirming healthcare services based on a model of informed consent in line with international best practice. ➢ Expand access to free contraception and affordable PrEP. ➢ Review healthcare provision to intersex people and ensure best practice is rolled out nationwide. ➢ Create an LGBTQI+ mental health strategy with community addiction services to match. ➢ Develop the strategies and services to end new HIV transmissions, as outlined in the Fast-Track Cities model, including developing and implementing a new National Sexual Health Strategy and including measures to end HIVrelated stigma and discrimination. ➢ Create regional versions of the Gay Men’s Health Services in Cork, Limerick and Galway. ➢ Provide funding for dedicated lesbian and bi women sexual health support. ➢ Improve LGBTQI+ inclusive relationships and sexuality education in schools. ➢ Review and update of the Cineáltas Action Plan on Bullying including specific prevention initiatives for LGBTQI+ identity-based bullying. ➢ Include LGBTQI+ questions on the census to ensure evidence-based allocation of services. ➢ Expand Ireland’s role in supporting LGBTQI+ rights internationally. Further info about our commitment to LGBTQI+ Rights can be found in the Policy Document on our website.
The Manifesto is here:
https://www.socialdemocrats.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GEManifesto2024.pdf
Solidarity -People Before Profit Alliance
[Dusty - they also like to call themselves the ‘Socialist Party’]
End paternalistic, transphobic blocks to healthcare for trans people. Gender-affirming care to be made available to all who need it for free, via a GP led service. Fight the disinformation of the far-right that is seeping into the political establishment. Trans healthcare is life-saving and essential. Abolish the gate-keeping and outdated NGS. Trans healthcare to be provided via a GP-led, consent-based model which empowers trans people to take agency over their bodies and provides them with all the care and treatments they need.
Progressive, objective, age appropriate and LGBTQIA inclusive sex education in all schools.
The Socialist Party is a socialist feminist organisation. Our women and queer activists have been central to establishing ROSA – Socialist Feminist Movement as a diverse, multi-gendered left-wing, anti-racist socialist movement for feminist and LGBTQIA demands. ROSA and the Socialist Party have consistently highlighted and campaigned on the issue of men’s violence against women and queer people.
The same ideas which aim to suppress the identities of LGTBQ+ people also reinforce gender roles for men and women, including an increase in a very harmful, macho caricature of masculinity. As violence against queer people escalates, so does violence against women.
Against all forms of LGBTQIAphobia [ Dusty -hahhaha, that’s a new one!!] and racism – socialist feminism is always pro-trans and anti-racist.
LGBTQIA Equality and Freedom
A report by LGBT Ireland found that 75% of queer people here have been verbally abused due to their sexuality or gender identity while one in five has been punched, hit or physically attacked in public.
Ireland is ranked the worst out of 27 EU countries due to not only their decade long waiting lists but also the psychiatric evaluation we’re forced into through the National Gender Service (NGS). Trans people are asked violating, sexualised questions about their relationships, intimate lives and abuse/trauma. The NGS is a fundamentally broken system with countless obstacles designed to gate-keep trans people from medically transitioning.
The reality of trans healthcare can’t be separated from the deeply flawed UK Cass Report, which is now being used to restrict trans youth’s access to puberty blockers and their right to socially transition. Paul Moran, a psychiatrist with the NGS, was on the review team and has personal friendship with Hilary Cass, exposing the transphobia endemic to the Irish system. It’s deeply worrying that Sinn Féin has signed off on a vindictive and dangerous ban on puberty blockers in the North, one that’s informed by this flawed and transphobic review.
From marriage equality to gender recognition, important changes have been won by the determined campaigning of LGBTQ+ people. But this shouldn’t be used to cover up the real record of Ireland’s political establishment. Ireland has the worst provision of trans healthcare in the EU. Schools remain dominated by the Catholic Church and there is no guarantee of access to LGBTQ+ inclusive sex education for young people.
And now we face a growing right-wing backlash that targets LGBTQ+ people, both in Ireland and internationally. The media, politicians and an emboldened far right are pushing a moral panic based on fear and misinformation about trans people, drag queens and the ‘indoctrination’ of children.
Far-right activists are intimidating library workers for stocking LGBTQ+ books and stirring up panic over sex education.
Our programme for LGBTQIA equality and freedom is innate to our programme for change in health, education, and our socialist feminism broadly. A central demand is for trans healthcare:
End paternalistic, transphobic blocks to healthcare for trans people. Gender-affirming care to be made available to all who need it for free, via a GP led service. Fight the disinformation of the far-right that is seeping into the political establishment. Trans healthcare is life-saving and essential. Abolish the gate-keeping and outdated NGS. Trans healthcare to be provided via a GP-led, consent-based model which empowers trans people to take agency over their bodies and provides them with all the care and treatments they need
[Dusty - OK, another big breath, Terven]
The rights the LGBTQIA movement have won can’t be taken for granted and to defend them, we need to get organised and build a new movement based on struggle and solidarity. We need a movement based on:
Solidarity: the same forces that are attacking LGBTQ+ rights are attacking women, migrants and people of colour. They are anti-worker and anti-tenant. We can fight these attacks by linking the struggles of LGBTQ+ people with a united struggle of all those oppressed and exploited by this system.
Mass Mobilisation: Pride should be a protest – we need to mobilise tens of thousands onto the streets to say no to the rising tide of LGBTQphobia. Workers in sectors like education and healthcare are at the frontline of many new homophobic and transphobic measures and can use their power as workers to withdraw their labour in the fight against them.
Anti-capitalism: While corporations and right-wing politicians put on a progressive face, the capitalist system they preside over is based on rampant inequality and oppression. This system in crisis is now fuelling a resurgence of the far-right. It’s a system based on the idealised nuclear family, rigid gender norms and it relies on bigotry and division to maintain control.
The (so called) Manifesto is here:
https://www.solidarity.ie/manifesto
Dusty’s Conclusion
Jeeeez, some of these manifestoes are long! I must say I was getting fed up of smiley face portraits! There was a lot of discussion of Offshore Wind Energy but I was thinking there is rather a lot of f****g Inshore Wind Energy going on in these documents!
OK, I’m not a voter in Ireland but, for the Terfs, it has to be Aontú in my humble opinion. The Irish Freedom Party were great ( not surprisingly!) on free speech but didn’t seem to discuss any of the other Terfy issues. National Alliance were great on education but, again, didn’t seem to discuss other Terfy issues. You would imagine they would both be good on the other issues but it is difficult to conclude that when you can’t find anything about them!
Fianna Fáil seemed to decide to try and get around the matter by not really discussing Terfy matters but, dear Irish readers, I’m sure that is not going to fool you!!
You will notice that there is a lot of ‘forced teaming’ going on between the LGB and the T and the Q. Or as Dennis Kavanagh refers to it: LGBTQ WTF LOL!! None of them attempt to explain this nonsense acronym! But we know what they are doing!
Off With the Gender Woo of the Election Prize goes without a doubt to the Solidarity Party.
OK, come down from your mud huts, people of Ireland! This is a reference to:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/go-n-eirigh-an-bothar-leat?utm_source=publication-search
All thoughts, especially from Irish readers, of course, gratefully received.
We definitely need some light relief after all that!
Endpieces by Dusty and Liz
The Solidarity Party made me think of the Laurel and Hardy theme tune, so here is a great scene from Way Out West:
And from Liz an ad especially for the Solidarity Party…
#BeMorePorcupine
#LetWomenSpeak
#Grassroots Army
#GenderIdeologyIsEvil
#VoteAontú
FF, FG ,SF, Green are all away with the fairies; they’re obsessed with the fruit loops. I’m so sorry that you had to wade through that slew of loopyfestos, Dusty. Aontu it is.
Here's a short report of the experiences of a Scandinavian trans widow. I'm sure there are trans widows in Ireland who have been abused similarly. We already know about Jennifer, who interviewed with Graham many years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqxKgyw_L_Q&t=27s