Dublin Pride ends media partnership with RTE over Liveline's Gender Identity discussion

A fella just passed my door in a wheelchair…Terry, he’s a neighbour, male, white straight etc…if he tells me he identifies as a one eyed, four fingered gender fluid gogo dancer from Kinshasa… called Mrs Arogundade…..he’s still not, he’s a 45 year old MAN called Terry Doyle, married to Aileen, two children, five fingers, a dog called champ who is allergic to peanuts.. Terry, not champ…

Madness too when it comes from a group of people who if they had their way would control everyone's speech on every issue. I suppose if a man can be a woman, then an authoritarian can be an advocate of freedom.

Yep. "None" is a level.

There is no downside to them inviting RTE in and it's all very dramatic. BAI is the forum for complaints about broadcasters anyway.

I'd actually call it throwing a bit of strop and even in public commentary supporting Dublin Pride there is little to no implied criticism of RTE and its mandate. I have absolutely no love for Liveline but it does serve a very useful purpose and is a key national resource for many people.

why the fook do we need to relabel 95% plus of something to suit the 5%?

A man is man and a woman is a woman end of ...

It has worked for hundreds if not thousands of years.

That doesn't and shouldn't mean that a trans person should be discriminated against in terms of employment, sexual orientation, the law, etc.

This mental gymnastics, disregarding biology and physiology just to appear all inclusive for a tiny minority is a lot of cr**.

We have jumped the shark so much nowadays with fools stating that a trans woman is just as much a woman as any born and reared female.

What makes this even more ridiculous these days is that the threshold for some guy declaring themselves a woman is that they feel that way inclined.

There isn't even a need for them to go on a course of hormone therapy never mind undergo surgery.

And we have other fruit loops claiming someone is homophobic transphobic (discriminatory) because they state they are not sexually into trans people.

FFS.

The greatest threat to the advancement an acceptance of trans people it sems are trans activists and the loons that embrace modern activism.

I refuse to use or normalize the usage of the term cis/cisgender as long as the people who came up with it use it as a slur. It's like the N word for normal people.

BTW can folks please stop referring to yer man Panti Bliss as a SHE.

It is a guy in drag, not a woman, not a transwoman.

And yes he is gay, but that still doesn't make him trans or anywhere near trans.

So HE is not a SHE.

And I don't know why he is getting his nickers in a twist over this.

Also maybe it is time the gay/queer/lesbian/bi community started distancing themselves from the toxic trans activists.

I think this modern preoccupation with fecking labels is another definite regressive US fashion that we have taken on.

I remember one of the few things they used to label years ago was music, where certain stations only played certain types or genres of music which then meant music had to be correctly labelled and categorised to be played.

Then they started labelling people and now we have corporations even trying to get their employees to add pronouns onto their correspondence.

I am a woman and a mother, as a girl I was a complete tomboy. Loved Lego, train sets, sports and hated pink and dresses. The way I see it you can see man/woman as biological sex or else you can choose to see man/woman as gender stereotypes. When my mother was doing her leaving certificate she wasn’t allowed by the school to do honours maths because she is female. I watched women in older generations then myself find themselves restricted by society because of their sex. I am sure plenty of men out there could describe how stifling it was for males in the past to be themselves due to societal norms.

I do not agree to calling myself ‘cis’, because it places too much value on gender over biological sex. Gender stereotypes/roles weren’t good for us in the past and they aren’t good for us now.