Ruth Coppinger

They hate Trump and they really love the woke agenda.

And we see that laterally through to, you know, what you referred to as Ruth Coppinger's bill and also the granny hugging business and so on.

So, They all are identikit in this regard.

And this is why, so leaving aside the fact that print is declined by 9% per annum and has been for about 12 years and no one under 40 will ever buy a newspaper again.

Like, I honestly don't even know.

Like, so Ruth Coppinger got up and spoke about the bill and she said that it would introduce a third option for gender recognition for a small minority of people, making it easier for them to access health care and smoothing over legal challenges that non-binary people face.

And then on intersex rights, the bill would give more choice to parents when it came to their children's birth certificates.

Coppinger explained this bill is very, very basic.

Your party voted in favour of this broadly.

And I presume you want to clarify that at a further stage, such as the democratic process, your party would have maybe a divergence in views from the likes of Ruth Coppinger, for an example.

Yeah, for sure.

There's hundreds of bills from TDs that come through the Dáil every year.

Yeah, no, thanks for the question, Greg.

So just for listeners, there's five stages of legislation in terms of bills.

So what you do is you discuss the bill in terms of Ruth Coppinger was at second stage.

So normally what you do is indicate your concerns parts of it you support parts of it that you don't and then you go to committee stage and put in amendments and seek to change it the fundamental issue for us is that's i suppose you come at this from a position of love and compassion and there is a tiny percentage of our people um who um don't wish to designate as either male or female this is not a irish challenge this is a challenge across the world it's trying to allow people to be who they are.

Mind

you, you know, it's the same 24 hours that only yesterday we had a vote in the Dáil, you know, by People Before Profit and Ruth Coppinger, you know, for a bill to put an X on passports.

Ridiculous bill.

I know.

And my name is Dara.

So the Ruth Coppinger's bill, the non-binary and intersex recognition bill does two really important things.

And it's making a distinction, I guess, around how we think about sex and how we think about gender and the people that are, I guess, kind of currently caught in between or left out of the way that we're thinking about sex and gender.

Um, and it's, it's talking about two things, which is non-binary and intersex.

Disgusting, all these laws being pushed.

And who's pushing them? The agenda is to ruin the family unit.

Ruth Coppinger is the person behind this conversation.

Another, I'd like to point out, Senator Tom Clonin is working hard to represent people with disabilities.

All you naysayers out there that say people before profit are useless.

Well, how dare you? Because Ruth Coppinger is going to try and push through a bill to guess what? What we all need is another gender or something like that.

I don't know.

I can't figure out what these guys want about.

Please tell me what the hell this bill is that's coming up this week.

What is she on about?

OK, so Ruth Coppinger, she's been all over the media for the last week promoting or describing what her bill is.

It's another gender issue.

We have a government minister in the hospital.

We've a new bill, of course, because we've always got a new bill from Ruth Coppinger suggesting something mad.

We have a new White House press secretary.

And oh, yeah, we have a fantastic case from the courts, but a woman called Tatiana Stackheave that we will get on to.

Well, Tatiana was an example of inefficient spending.

But let's move on to something different, which is the name of the podcast.

Because you want to talk about Ruth Coppinger's new bill.

So walk us through it.

Next week, the Dáil is going to debate a bill that is being described as strengthening the rights of non-binary and intersex people.

And at the heart of that bill will be the, uh, right of parents when registering a birth to not just register male or female, but also to have the option of X, wherein you don't assign a gender to the child, and it is Ruth Coppinger, Solidarity TD, who is bringing forth the, uh, legislation.

Ruth, have I characterized that correctly?

Well, the other very important part is to introduce the option of a third gender on the gender recognition certificate.

And obviously that legislation due to be, uh, debated in the Dáil next week.

Ruth, thanks very much.

Ruth Coppinger, Dublin West, Solidarity TD.

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