{"id":670303,"date":"2026-10-30T23:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T23:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/670303\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T23:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T23:02:15","slug":"niamh-ui-bhriain-joe-duffy-and-the-trans-bullies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/670303\/","title":{"rendered":"NIAMH U\u00cd BHRIAIN: Joe Duffy and the trans bullies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Duffy is retired now and free to say what he likes \u2013 and his insight into the entirely choreographed and unjustified controversy around Liveline\u2019s hosting of a debate on the clash between women\u2019s rights and the demands of trans activists is very revealing. <\/p>\n<p>The row, which erupted in June 2022, wasn\u2019t actually a row at all, but a warning: this is what will happen if anyone, even someone as perennially popular and powerful as Joe Duffy even tries to facilitate a debate on the absurd insistence that big hairy men are women if they say so, or that children should be exposed to gender ideology, or that domestic violence shelters can\u2019t be female-only spaces, or that women shouldn\u2019t object to being called \u2018persons with a cervix\u2019 or \u2018menstruators\u2019 or \u2018chest-feeders\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Duffy is retired now and free to say what he likes \u2013 and his insight into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,24557,47726,283838,47907,1463],"class_list":["post-670303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-joe-duffy","tag-liveline","tag-staff-crying","tag-teni","tag-trans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}