Despite the current popularity of terms like equality and inclusivity, one particular group continues to face unique and often overlooked challenges in healthcare settings, where resources are often inaccessible and same-sex care is not always a given. Gladys of The Countess Healthcare Working Group sheds light on the obstacles that women with disabilities encounter when...

The Irish Penal Reform Trust is an independent NGO that works to improve the Irish penal system through advocacy, lobbying, reports, studies, and public awareness campaigns. Its many valuable achievements include improvements in regard to overcrowding, education and training, and the housing of young...

Gender Recognition (Amendment) (Prisons) Bill 2023 New Bill aims to amend the GRA 2015 and stop males being housed in Irish women’s prisons The Bill was drafted by Laoise de Brún BL and introduced to the Dáil by Peadar Tóibín TD and has been signed by Carol Nolan TD already The Gender Recognition (Amendment).

Despite clear evidence on the physical differences between males and females, the LGFA have opted to centre males in their new Transgender Policy. This is a huge betrayal of their grass roots players and management. Furthermore, the policy gives no guidance to clubs on handling the complexities of this area.

With Islam’s strict rules on modesty and segregation of the sexes, single-sex spaces matter to Muslim women. If Muslim women no longer have a private, female-only space, they will be forced to self-exclude from sports, public changing rooms and toilets, and even domestic violence shelters.

In his latest article for The Countess, prison consultant Gearóid Ó Loingsigh reviews a report published recently by the Inspector of Prisons announcing plans to develop a national policy for the “safe” custody of trans identified males. Ireland’s self ID laws put the Irish Prison Service’s policies in conflict with the UN Standard Minimum Rules...