Men in women's prisons - Women's Space Ireland

Submission to the Irish Prison Service Prison Rules Review Consultation

Any new policy on transgender prisoners must ensure that any changes to the Prison Rules do not negatively impact on the safety and other needs of women in prisons, including women prisoners and women Prison Officers and officials.

AGPs

What impact assessment was carried out on allowing men to call themselves women?

Why are the demands of a tiny minority to use whichever toilet they like in our national theatre according to their "personal preference" given precedence over the majority's preference for the comfort and dignity of single-sex provision?

AGPs

Leo's lame defence of the Gender Recognition Act

Fortunately Leo's @FineGael colleague Presidential candidate @HeatherH knows what a woman is and has been unafraid to say that the Gender Recognition Act may need looking at again.

Differences of Sex Development

Journalists bend the knee to gender ideology

In abandoning their own standards to indulge others in the pronouns they demand journalists signal that they have bent the knee to gender ideology. This is surely in breach of the NUJ Code of Conduct.

AGPs

Gender Recognition Act has to go

"Imagine a law that allowed white people to declare they are black or adults to declare they are children. There would rightly be uproar. Yet women are supposed to accept that any man can say he’s a woman, or be called a bigot."

Men in women's prisons

New Limerick women's prison already over capacity

Already in 2024 the new Limerick women's state-of-the-art brand new prison is once again repeating the pattern of the previous prison for women: 62 or 111% bed capacity on 1st and 2nd January, the highest in the State.

Sex based rights of women and girls

Should men be in a women's prison?

Including two male sex offenders in a women’s prison is abusive of the rights not just of women prisoners but of women prison officers who have been threatened with rape. Will the new prison for women in Limerick be for women only?

Men in women's prisons

Male sex offenders in Limerick women's prison

Thread from 26th May 2023 "The IPRT said women in prison in Ireland are among the most marginalised women in the state, with an estimated 85% having addiction issues and studies suggesting they are more likely than men to have experienced sexual, physical, or emotional abuse." "..the

Men in women's prisons

No males in women's jails

Thread from 21st March 2023 The first man with a Gender Recognition Certificate in an Irish women's prison wasn't Barbie Kardashian: In fact we've had at least three recently, as well as another man claiming to be a woman who must not have had

Men in women's prisons

Centring male prisoners demands in women's jails

Will men with Gender Recognition Certificates be accommodated in the new Limerick women's prison which will have just an extra 22 places - 50 instead of the current 28?

Sex based rights of women and girls

TRANS to TDs - joint Christmas campaign with The Countess

Here's the list of TDs and some Senators so far promised a copy of Irishwoman Helen Joyce's bestseller "TRANS - When Ideology Meets Reality".

Men in women's prisons

The women in Limerick prison

If men with Gender Recognition Certificates continue to be put into women's prisons in Ireland separate accommodation is needed. But why might lesbians need separate accommodation in the new Limerick women's prison and why is the "I" for "intersex" included in "LGBTIQ+ prisoners"?

Census

Accurate data collection critical to understanding crime incidence

Linda Laura Sabbadini, a statistician renowned for pioneering the measurement of gender inequality, says once data existed on the extent of the issue public attention and changes to the law followed.

IPRT (Irish Penal Reform Trust)

Women's rights not considered in Yogyakarta Principles described as "recognised best practice"

Women's rights were not considered in the drafting of the Yogyakarta Principles, the non-legally binding guidelines repeatedly cited when dealing with transgender issues

IPRT (Irish Penal Reform Trust)

The pressure on Irish prisons thanks to gender identity ideology

Twitter thread 5th August 2021 "The report said both women were subject to Rule 63 of the Irish Prison Rules 2007, which relates to vulnerable prisoners who may be at risk from other prisoners or who might pose a risk to other inmates." Although described as women the

IHREC

The IHREC and TENI

The UK's EHRC has withdrawn from Stonewall's Diversity Champions scheme. Is it time that the IHREC in this country cast its net wider as to who it consults with on gender identity issues?

Men in women's prisons

All it takes is a GRC: How a man can be sent to a women's prison in Ireland

Many women prisoners are amongst the most vulnerable in Irish society. Yet with a Gender Recognition Certificate any man can self-id as a member of the opposite sex and be sent to a women's prison, even if he's a sex offender.