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GaelsForFairPlay

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GaelsForFairPlay

@GaelsFairPlay

Grassroots players, coaches, volunteers and parents seeking fairness for women and girls in Gaelic Games.

Ireland

Joined May 2024

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GaelsForFairPlay
@GaelsFairPlay
Feb 8, 2025
change.org/LGFA-ReviewTra… Gaels For Fair Play has launched a petition urging the LGFA to review its transgender policy that lets trans-identifying males from the age of 12 upwards to play Ladies Gaelic Football. Please sign if you believe in fairness and safety for women and girls.
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GaelsForFairPlay
@GaelsFairPlay
Mar 8, 2025
That's us today outside the hotel in Donegal where the Ladies Gaelic Football Association's annual congress is being held. As you can see, it's a busy main road with few people passing by, but we got our posters up on lampposts for motorists to see (and got a lot of honks and
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GaelsForFairPlay
@GaelsFairPlay
Feb 17, 2025
**STATEMENT** Last July, Gaels For Fair Play sent an email to Helen O'Rourke, chief executive of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association (LGFA) and others on the management committee. The correspondence outlined concerns we had about the association's transgender policy (which
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GaelsForFairPlay
@GaelsFairPlay
Mar 9, 2025
Another Irish sporting body sees sense. Brilliant campaigning work by @WomensSpaceIre and thanks to @MarkLTighe and Sunday Independent for reporting on this. Another domino falls. Soon, @LadiesFootball will be the only one left that lets males play against females.
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GaelsForFairPlay
@GaelsFairPlay
Apr 19, 2025
Thank you to the @IrishTimes for printing our letter pointing out the untenable position @LadiesFootball finds itself in now that the UK Supreme Court has ruled it is discriminating against female players in the six counties, Scotland and England. We call on Irish legislators
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GaelsForFairPlay
@GaelsFairPlay
Apr 16, 2025
We have said from the very start we believe the inclusion of males in Ladies Gaelic football breaches equality legislation - north and south. Well, there are six counties where this is now demonstrably the case. The LGFA's policy must not be allowed to stand.
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GaelsForFairPlay
@GaelsFairPlay
Dec 13, 2024
The Ladies Gaelic Football Association gave its young female athletes not one second of consideration when it made the unilateral decision to include males in @LadiesFootball. The consent of women and girls was not sought, nor have their objections been heard.
Cathy Devine
@cathydevine56
Dec 13, 2024
'Sporting authorities which have succumbed to demands that biological males be permitted to compete in female events have exploited the lack of agency that young female athletes have in this matter.' 🎯🎯🎯 heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp…
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GaelsForFairPlay
@GaelsFairPlay
Apr 17, 2025
**STATEMENT** Following yesterday's UK Supreme Court ruling that the word “woman” under the UK Equality Act refers to biological sex, we are calling on the Ladies Gaelic Football Association to urgently address the serious legal and ethical contradictions now facing the
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GaelsForFairPlay
@GaelsFairPlay
Feb 2, 2025
The Irish government must now, as a matter of urgency, address the fact that the Ladies Gaelic Football Association, a publicly-funded organisation, permits boys from the age of 12 to self-identity into girls' teams and girls' changing rooms. It is not good enough for our
Paddy O'Gorman
@paddyjogorman
Feb 2, 2025
Fine Gael has dropped its stated commitment to Wpath trans agenda. Excellent news. Government drops previous plan to let under-16s legally change genders independent.ie/irish-news/gov…
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GaelsForFairPlay
@GaelsFairPlay
Mar 28, 2025
Last week, our co-director Mary-Anne McNulty wrote to First Minister Michelle O’Neill sharing our petition calling on the Ladies Gaelic Football Association to review its transgender policy permitting the inclusion of males in our sport and expressing her concerns about the
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GaelsForFairPlay
@GaelsFairPlay
May 2, 2025
** UPDATE** Very concerning news coming out of the LGFA. Despite everything that has happened in the last few days, it is refusing to acknowledge that its policy is completely incompatible with fairness, safety and sporting integrity. Today, we were contacted by a parent whose
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GaelsForFairPlay
@GaelsFairPlay
May 7, 2025
We thought, when @LadiesFootball announced in 2023 it was letting men and boys play our sport, that we would see a headline reading, "If even one girl quits Gaelic football because she is uncomfortable playing against a male, it would be a tragedy". We're still waiting.
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GaelsForFairPlay
@GaelsFairPlay
Mar 9, 2025
Regarding the LGFA official who told us, "We have 200,0000 members and nobody but you seems to have a problem with the policy": 1. Many LGFA members are afraid to speak up publicly; they are afraid for their jobs or afraid they will be punished, or denied opportunities, within
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GaelsForFairPlay
@GaelsFairPlay
Feb 8, 2025
"If you have an U-16 football match and allow an 18-year-old to play, it’s no defence to say, ‘well, it was only one’. One is all it takes to compromise fairness and safety." Irish sports journalist Cathal Dennehy hits the nail on the head in his article on why allowing males
Cathal Dennehy
@Cathal_Dennehy
Feb 8, 2025
Most won’t be willing to express it, but they quietly nodded in agreement with a decision made by Donald Trump this week. It's something the vast majority believe: that women’s sport should not be open to those who went through male puberty. Column: irishexaminer.com/sport-columnis…
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