>Journalist Mick Clifford of the Irish Examiner writes that those of us who gathered at a public meeting in Dublin recently to oppose the ongoing operation of the Gender Recognition Act in Ireland are “bereft of compassion” and that, furthermore, we give “precious little consideration… to those whom it (transgenderism) impacts directly”.
>So let’s talk about how a man’s fist came to impact directly upon a woman’s head. That happened in a women’s domestic violence refuge in Dublin. The man has a certificate, issued to him under the terms of the GRA, that says he is a woman. That’s how he was able to be a resident in a women’s refuge. He is a fit, well-built man in his thirties. His victim, also a resident in the refuge, was a 60-year-old woman of slight stature. Prior to the passing of the GRA, that woman could have reasonably expected to be safe from male violence when she was living in a women’s refuge. Not anymore.
>At the man’s subsequent trial and conviction for assault, the court heard how he had beaten his victim to the ground, sat upon her, punched her repeatedly to the head and ripped clumps of hair from her scalp. (He got a three month suspended sentence.)
>The most shocking and newsworthy part of the story, that a woman had been beaten up by a man she had been forced to live with in a women’s refuge, was hidden from the public by our cowardly Irish journalists.
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