{"id":53678,"date":"2021-02-11T12:10:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T17:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=53678"},"modified":"2021-02-11T12:10:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T17:10:16","slug":"ireland-and-boys-who-menstruate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/ireland-and-boys-who-menstruate","title":{"rendered":"Ireland and \u201cboys who menstruate\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/labour\/status\/1355200972465827843\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Irish Labour Party<\/a> has decided to \u201chelp boys deal with the costs of menstruation.\u201d The underlying logic is that menstruation is a gender-neutral experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Labour Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/labour.ie\/rebeccamoynihan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rebecca Moynihan<\/a>, the author of the bill in question, explains <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RebeccaMoy\/status\/1355239374875713541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">through a series of <em>tweets<\/em><\/a> how some girls perceive themselves as <em>transgender<\/em> during childhood and therefore end up declaring themselves male. But since they still have an undeniably and unavoidably female body, the time will come when they will start menstruating, as is only natural. However, these females who \u201cfeel\u201d male, the Senator explains, are &#8220;really&#8221; men\u2014because they say they are. Hence, the idea that \u201csome men get periods\u201d has pretty much become official <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/labour-party-we-must-help-boys-with-the-cost-of-menstruation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Irish Labour Party<\/a> policy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hundreds of people miss school everyday due to period poverty and period shame \u270a\ud83c\udffb\ud83e\ude78<br><br>@RebeccaMoy\u2019s bill will ensure everyone have access to free period products! <br><br>Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OJmxJ96q6h\">https:\/\/t.co\/OJmxJ96q6h<\/a> and have your say <br><br>(PS. Follow us on Tik Tok) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oYL3cXAe80\">pic.twitter.com\/oYL3cXAe80<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Labour Party (@labour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/labour\/status\/1355200972465827843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In short, it is no longer correct to say that \u201cwomen menstruate\u201d because that excludes \u201cmen\u201d who menstruate. From now on, this will have to be corrected to \u201cpersons with periods.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The calculation is as subtle as it is dishonest. Alleviating the poverty of women is an excellent goal in political terms. It would be pretty hard to argue with someone who wants to help a young woman buy tampons or sanitary napkins. In a decent, modern, Western country you certainly don\u2019t want women to be ashamed of their physiology or worried about not being able to access basic sanitation. Basing everything on this, the Labour Party is advocating a wide and summarial social acceptance of transgenderism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, proclaiming to the country that some males get their periods, and therefore need help to pay for tampons, is hilarious on the hand. But it&#8217;s also serious: if the offensive succeeds, they will have achieved a big goal for progressivism. Still, in the very days in which the proposal was launched, a <a href=\"https:\/\/redcresearch.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Business-Post-RED-C-Opinion-Poll-Report-Jan-2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll gave the Labour Party only 3% of the votes<\/a>: an all-time low. Perhaps it coincides precisely with the consensus among the citizens regarding the proposal that we should help &#8220;men who menstruate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Labour carnival wants to foist the cost of tampons for transwomen onto taxpayers, along with an ideology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":51779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"The Labour carnival wants to foist the cost of tampons for transwomen onto taxpayers, along with an ideology.","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override":[{"single_blog_custom":"","sidebar":"","second_sidebar":"","share_position":"","share_float_style":"","post_date_format":"","post_date_format_custom":"","post_reading_time_wpm":"","zoom_button_out_step":"1","zoom_button_in_step":"1","number_popup_post":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"","single_post_gallery_size":""}],"trending_post_position":"","trending_post_label":"","sponsored_post_label":"","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"514"},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,510],"tags":[8129],"class_list":["post-53678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-family","tag-foreground"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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