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[–]anonymale 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Gript.ie is a media outlet in the same sense that a drug dealer is a pharmaceutical outlet. There are still three articles on this case up on the Irish Independent site, and one one the Limerick Leader. All state that the violent offender in question was born male, identifies as a woman and wants to be in a female prison. It would appear possible to report accurately on this story without breaching the court order mentioned in the linked article. The purpose of the latter appears to be ultra righty tighties positioning themselves as noble paladins of the truth. Fascists, however, uniformly hate women and aren't good at hiding it. Take a look at gript's stance on abortion.

[–]anonymale 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Gript.ie is a media outlet in the same sense that a drug dealer is a pharmaceutical outlet.

I had not appreciated how mendacious this shower of fascist bastards are. I won't link to it, but the site features a video attempting to discredit Catherine Corless, the Galway historian who uncovered the horror of Tuam children's home.

Eight hundred children of unwed mothers died there over thirty-six years, with only a handful having a record of burial. She found where the rest had gone: into a disused sewage tank. The [edit] resulting explosion of public outrage forced the Irish state to form a commission of inquiry which reports regularly. Its final report is due on Oct 30th. [end edit] There is to be a thorough forensic investigation of the whole site. None of this would have, could have happened without Catherine Corless' relentless dedication.

The investigation released its fifth interim report in March 2019. It details the investigation into the site by forensic archaeologists, civil engineers and others into the structure the children's remains were found in. The report makes it completely clear that this was not a crypt, but an effluent tank. The arseholes at gript take a few of Corless' words, and a few of the report's words, and in order to make a cheap anti-abortion point portray her as contradicting the report after endorsing it. Their contempt for women in general and Catherine Corless in particular ought to show that these fuckers only report on transgender cases because they like all fascists want to reinforce gender, not criticise it or minimise its harms.

Uncritical boosting of a fascist site's dubious claims of persecution only makes it easier for TRAs to claim that their radfem critics are in bed with the far right. For that reason you should remove this thread, BEB.