Tomás Ó Flatharta

David Cullinane TD (Sinn Féin, Waterford), his party’s health spokesperson, seems to believe that bigoted legal discrimination against transgender people, a tiny vulnerable minority, is OK – in his own words it is “common sense”.

Cullinane’s statement below is senseless in more ways than one. A bluesky correspondent observes :

When Sinn Féin in the 6 threw trans people under the British terf(*) bus recently there may have still been some doubt where they’re at. This removes any doubt.

This is a Sinn Féin TD arguing for the removal of Irish citizen’s rights using a British court decision in aid of that position. #Ireland

Link :

https://bsky.app/profile/uilliammac.bsky.social/post/3lmxfqzprjc2r

• terf = (Trans Exclusionary Reactionary Feminist or Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist)

It’s remarkably embarrassing that Cullinane, as a republican, has no idea how the British state is constituted. A Brit court delivered this judgment. It overturned a Scottish High Court decision. That said, many Scottish independence supporters, for example around the reactionary Alba Party founded by the late Alex Salmond after he was accused of rape and sexual assault, are also cheering this decision  – brought to us by the same Brit court that killed off the prospect of a second independence referendum in Scotland.

Luckily, transphobia is unpopular in many parts of Ireland.