There’s a Pride event happening in the northwest of Ireland this week, in a small Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking) town called Falcarraigh. It’s not the first Pride event in the region but it’s the first bi-lingual (English and Irish).
Sounds good! Except the organisers have invited Transgender Equality Network Ireland to host an event billed as “tea and a chat” with “pháistí agus daoine óga” (kids and young people).
The MC of the TENI event seems to be Tara Hewitt, an avowed furry, BDSM fetishist and AGP (you can read about Hewitt here and here.) The event agenda suggests the usual homosexuality-denying queer progress-pride nonsense and the town has been draped in trans flags.
Questions abound: will Hewitt or other TENI staffers tell the kids and their parents about DIY self-injection with testosterone bought through the notorious GenderGP, an online vendor of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones?
I asked a famous local TERF called Jenny to fill me in on the event and the people involved.
The trans lobby rolls into rural Ireland