This article follows on from our piece about Wicklow Library’s appalling decision to platform trans activist Sara Phillips, a trans identifying male, at an event for International Women’s Day 2022 despite numerous complaints from local women. Women were angry that Phillips was platformed, not only because Phillips has a very long track record of consistently...

To celebrate International Women’s Day 2022, Wicklow Library hosted an event with Sara Phillips, Chair of TENI, to speak about “topics that affect transgender women in terms of inclusion”. Sara Phillips was born male and fathered three children before starting to transition in the mid 2000s.

A rally entitled “No woman left behind” was held by the National Women’s Council on Saturday 5th March 2022 as part of International Women’s Day.

In his latest piece for The Countess, Consultant on Prisons, Gearóid O Loingsigh gets to the heart of the problem of male violence against women. Approximately 90% of MVAW occurs in the home. In February 2021, Safe Ireland[1]Safe Ireland (2021). Tracking the Shadow Pandemic – Lockdown 2. A report on women and children seeking support from...

Edie Wyatt has traced her maternal line back to Mary Mullender, a 22-year-old woman separated from her family in Essex in 1788 and shipped thousands of miles away to Australia for the crime of stealing some clothing. The real reason for such an extreme punishment was because the men who had set out to colonise...

This is the second part of Dr Em's two-part feature on the experiences of the ever-growing cohort of ‘trans widows’ – women whose husbands have decided to ‘live as a woman’ – and the patterns of abuse enacted on them. Read part one here.  PART II: GASLIGHTING & PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOUR