The fetishists and ideologues who hijacked #Repealthe8th
TENI strikes again by The Irish Resistance
The effort to Repeal The Eighth Amendment in Ireland, which effectively outlawed abortion, was a fight my ex-wife and I were proud to be a part of. I noticed trans activists glomming onto the issue but didn’t think anything of it at the time. Then Amnesty Ireland removed women like Helen from the whole issue with their disgraceful ‘pregnant people’ tweet, and I realised that something very sinister had happened. Soon after, presumably thanks to Amnesty Ireland and TENI, they slipped Self ID through the back door by attaching it to marriage equality.
This report comes from the Irish Resistance.
Yet again Keeva Lilith Carroll, the National Community Development Officer for TENI has given a hint as to what community should look like by retweeting the following.
Lilith, who was a bearded woke bloke doing overseas work for Oxfam before embracing her true self five years ago, has form disrespecting women’s bodies:
His fellow TRA, self-described ‘cis’ butch lesbian Izzy Kamikaze, excused Lilith’s call to violence last year as being due to his fear of fascism and his youth.
“Lilith must have felt quite low. She is young, in early transition, she works in a public-facing trans advocacy job and here were two of her role models saying that decades of “nice” advocacy hadn’t worked.”
Young? Well, pushing forty is the new pushing thirty, they say. His latest youthful faux pas is unfortunate because TENI gained mainstream cred through joining the Repeal The Eighth coalition, part of an ultimately successful push to legalise abortion in Ireland.
Minister for Health (at the time) Simon Harris, a man genuinely committed to ending the horror of Irish abortion restrictions for Irish women, said this at the second reading of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018 in the Dáil:
When we met previously to discuss this legislation, I said I had been asked by many stakeholders; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex, LGBTI, groups and by Repeal campaigners to ensure reference would be made in the legislation to "pregnant persons" to cover people who could get pregnant but did not identify as, or were not, women. It was apparent that the LGBTI and trans communities had played a huge part in the referendum campaign. They did so in Fingal Together for Yes and across the State. Trans people, particularly trans women, are an inextricable part of the feminist community and it would be remiss of us if the legislation providing for the provision of services was to leave them out. We have to refer in it to people and persons who can become pregnant. I have spoken to the Minister about this and hope we can sort it out by way of an amendment.
Emphasis mine. When the clock is ticking down to 12 weeks, no biological female should have to waste a moment in bureaucratic struggle before securing an abortion she needs. But the benefits accrued to TENI by their part in this campaign went well beyond the benefits to the trans-identified females who might accidentally fall pregnant through heterosexual sex and want an abortion.
The makers of the documentary ‘The 8th” fawningly apologised for not having space to include the work of ‘the trans community’. An issue of Feminist Review focused wholly on Repeal claimed:
Migrant and trans reproductive rights activists in particular continue to make (righteous) demands for atonement from the official campaign, and much work remains to be done.
The Abortion Rights Campaign (possibly as part of this atonement?) devoted International Women’s Day to opposing Keira Bell’s win against the Tavistock Clinic.
That’s Adeline Berry (a male who sucks up funding from those with serious endocrine conditions by pretending that hypospadias is an intersex condition and that having his urethra rerouted from the base of his penis to the front of his penis was because of doctors choosing to make him a boy and not a girl). Alexa Moore (male), Aoife Martin (male), Beth Flanagan, an American male who went Gaeilgeoir to conceal the fact that Irish laws didn't affect him and who signed a letter saying that Irish women were no less safe for every single man in Ireland being able to access our spaces. Finally, Noah Halpin, a female lately welcomed into TENI to up the numbers.
The inevitable complaints were met with:
Yes, it probably wasn’t wise for Lilith to mock abortion as yet another fun frivolous thing that girls get to do. Don’t want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
TENI, for those not in the know, are untouchable in Ireland. Like Stonewall in the UK, they get treated by the health and education arms government as their paid consultant in trans issues. Unlike Stonewall, they aren’t a charity, just a company like any other, which enables them to avoid scrutiny. Unlike Stonewall, they are explicitly transgender-only, yet feel free to attack LGB-only organisations.
TENI’s 2019 accounts were filed several months late, and likely never would have been filed were it not for the fact that many of its top funders threatened to cut off funds if it didn’t do so. The Twitter account of @sararphillips mentions her position as Chair of TENI but oddly not her status as a Chartered Accountant. Perhaps because if that were public then TENI’s claim in their Annual Activity Report that “circumstances beyond their control” prevented them from filing the uninformative 10-page abridged annual accounts that they are required to under the Companies Act 2014 would become ludicrous.
TENI have their tentacles deep in education and even deeper in healthcare. Until GRIPT.IE questioned it, the Irish society for general practitioners had this TENI guide on its site which claimed that a) we all have a gender identity and b) puberty blockers are fully reversible. It was removed after the query, though the front link remains.
At the time of the Gender Recognition Act in 2015, TENI’s focus was primarily on secondary schools and universities; now the focus is reaching children as early as possible. INTO is one of the three main teachers’ unions of Ireland. These unions wield massive clout, and INTO is the only one made purely of primary school teachers.
INTO’s so-called LGBT resources don’t even try to conceal the fact that they’ve copypasted straight from TENI. One of their pdfs is literally called TENI Gender Diversity: Teaching Resources and their poster for LGBT teachers about being a teacher who is lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans or ‘+’ is... TENI.
See? There’s nothing here about LGB people in Ireland.
Yet “The INTO LGBT Teachers’ Group recommends displaying the updated ‘LGBT+ Inclusive Staffroom’ guidelines prominently in your staffroom to create a positive and inclusive environment for LGBT members of staff, substitute teachers or visitors to your school.”
TENI’s main focus is healthcare. It’s illuminating to see the makeup of the Steering Commitee on trans services in the Health Services Executive:
Several healthcare experts, two TENI members, and the ministerial appointee: a young transman Noah Halpin who would join TENI a year later.
TENI represent adults who wish there had been drugs and knives on tap when they were young. TENI represent adults who know that if drugs and knives are on tap now it will swell their numbers.
TENI do not represent children in general.
And if Lilith’s tweet is anything to go on, where people excitedly talk about organ compatibility but neglect to remember that babies can’t fit through male pelvises, then TENI – despite its Repeal cred – doesn’t even know what a woman’s body is.
(Note: an earlier version of this article misgendered ‘Beth’ Flanagan, who is is in fact a man, and not just any man!)
Grotesque, absolute in-your-face perversions of truth and reality.
Unsettling that Lilith was doing overseas charity work.