Gender Rebels (Gender Rebels Company Limited by Guarantee)

Lobbying Organisation Gender Rebels

Date published 15 Jan, 2025

Relevant Matter Legislation

Public Policy Area Community

Period 1 Sep, 2024 to 31 Dec, 2024

Specific Details Awareness to current challenges experienced within the Transgender community of Ireland

Intended results Promote awareness to the struggles experienced by Transgender people within Ireland, including access to gender affirming healthcare, discrimination, and misconceptions of their identity. This campaign focused on educating stakeholders to the global standards in Transgender rights and current issues concerning state decisions in the development of a new model of care for Transgender healthcare. Inform the general public of the reduction/increase of concern towards the support of Transgender people and their rights within Ireland within the political party manifestos for the 2024 general election in comparison to these parties 2020 general election manifestos through a compare/contrast description.

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Kevin Hosford (Chairperson of Gender Rebels)

Did any Designated Public Official(DPO) or former Designated Public Official(DPO) carry out lobbying activities on your behalf in relation to this return? You must include yourself, and answer Yes, if you are a current DPO or a DPO at any time in the past. (What is a Designated Public Official?) No

Did you manage or direct a grassroots campaign? Yes

What is the directive you gave to the grassroots campaigners? Observers of our social medias were encouraged to share their experiences of trans-healthcare using the hashtag #INND

Was this lobbying done on behalf of a client? No

Mass communications

Email All Councillors All local elected Cork City councillors were emailed once to inform them of the challenges experienced by Transgender people within Ireland, comparing current treatments to those of past treatments of homosexuality. Readers were asked to reflect on the facts and current world standards and keep in mind the challenges and issues experienced within Ireland's Transgender population.

Lobbying activity

The following activities occurred for this specific Subject Matter Area.

Email (31-50)

Designated public officials lobbied

The following DPOs were lobbied during this return period on this specific Subject Matter Area. These DPOs were involved in at least one of the Lobbying Activities listed above, but not necessarily all of them. As returns are specific to a Subject Matter Area the above Lobbying Activities may be associated with multiple returns.

Albert Deasy Councillor (Cork City Council)

Brian McCarthy Councillor (Cork City Council)

Colm Kelleher Councillor (Cork City Council)

Damian Boylan Councillor (Cork City Council)

Dan Boyle Councillor (Cork City Council)

Des Cahill Councillor (Cork City Council)

Fergal Dennehy Councillor (Cork City Council)

Fiona Kerins Councillor (Cork City Council)

Garret Kelleher Councillor (Cork City Council)

Honore Kamegni Councillor (Cork City Council)

Joe Kavanagh Councillor (Cork City Council)

Joe Lynch Councillor (Cork City Council)

John Sheehan Councillor (Cork City Council)

Kenneth Collins Councillor (Cork City Council)

Kenneth Noel O'Flynn Councillor (Cork City Council)

Kieran McCarthy Councillor (Cork City Council)

Laura Harmon Councillor (Cork City Council)

Margaret McDonnell Councillor (Cork City Council)

Mary Rose Desmond Councillor (Cork City Council)

Michelle Gould Councillor (Cork City Council)

Oliver Moran Councillor (Cork City Council)

Pádraig Rice Councillor (Cork City Council)

Peter Horgan Councillor (Cork City Council)

Sean Martin Councillor (Cork City Council)

Shane O'Callaghan Councillor (Cork City Council)

Ted Tynan Councillor (Cork City Council)

Terry Coleman Councillor (Cork City Council)

Terry Shannon Councillor (Cork City Council)

Tony Fitzgerald Councillor (Cork City Council)