Colette Colfer
@ColetteColfer
writer, lecturer in religious studies, past-life journalist, national radio-award winner, cultural commentator, poet. Member Heterodox Academy.
My little poetry pamphlet ‘Biology Matters’ is no longer available for purchase. Thanks to everyone who supported it over the last three years. This poem ‘Heart’ - in three parts - sums up my position on what are some of the most divisive issues of our times. Unity and diversity:
This week's column: Do we really need politicians any more now that all the important decisions are made by judges, NGOs and assorted other busybodies? independent.ie/opinion/commen…
Answer this question @grok - what Irish politicians, poets, and academics have blocked me?
🇮🇪 Ireland is having its legal awakening moment. Burke wins at the Court of Appeal. Gript takes the Press Council to court. Two cases, one message: The days of silencing dissent through institutional capture are numbered. Here's why this matters 🧵
Fantastic news for Ireland… slowly at first and then…
🇮🇪 Ireland is having its legal awakening moment. Burke wins at the Court of Appeal. Gript takes the Press Council to court. Two cases, one message: The days of silencing dissent through institutional capture are numbered. Here's why this matters 🧵
To mark @jk_rowling ‘s 60th birthday this week, John contributed this article to @TheSundayIndo, which focusses on her contribution to literature as well as her philanthropic work and advocacy for women's and children's safety. #BookTwitter independent.ie/entertainment/…
The moving statues phenomenon in Ireland during the summer of 1985 was my first real experience of social contagion. I was ten years old and it was WILD - masses of grown adults in Ireland believed that statues were moving independent.ie/news/i-had-fai…
To refuse or fail to use preferred pronouns in Ireland is anathema. It means being cast as hateful, a bigot, worthy of excoriation and ostracisation. Using preferred pronouns is considered ‘nice’, ‘kind’, ‘inclusive’. Even Brendan O’Connor, on @RadioBrendanRTE - in an attempt…
Enoch Burke was used as a scapegoat in Ireland. He was effectively cast out from not just his job but from ‘respected’ society. His scapegoating on the topic of genderism strengthened the gender identity movement and swelled their ranks. Even people who had previously been wary…
Four 'ordinary' women who've fought for women's and girls' rights to safety, privacy and dignity at immense personal cost, taking on well-funded lobby groups, ideologically captured public bodies and a political class that treats women with contempt. Actual, real life heroines 🔥
At the #sandiepeggietribunal in Dundee with two solid gold heroines, Sandie & Roz Adams. Never underestimate the strain this process has. We are grateful for their courage.
Enoch Burke was used as a scapegoat in Ireland. He was effectively cast out from not just his job but from ‘respected’ society. His scapegoating on the topic of genderism strengthened the gender identity movement and swelled their ranks. Even people who had previously been wary…
A large number of people (mostly men, in my experience) who're sympathetic to some of women's opposition to gender identity ideology, nevertheless think it's cruel to point out that a trans-identified man looks like a man, and unkind not to 'respect' his pronouns. They think…
Five years ago, I gave a speech comparing sex denialism to creationism. At the time, my partner-in-crime, Colin Wright, and I were near-lone academic voices willing to stand up and say “Biology! We have a problem!” @SwipeWright
Trust in mainstream media has never been lower, but the management class has decreed that violent and sexual crimes committed by men must be reported as female crimes if that's how the perpetrators identify. A strategy that's sure to rebuild credibility. bbc.com/news/articles/…
“Psychologically unhealthy people are usually healthy fanatics. They are constantly looking for the right food and drink, do not smoke or drink wine, they need a lot of salts and are obsessed with pharmacies. Always with new inventions, but never healthy to the end. Indeed, the…
Ireland: Still no release of the Gender Recognition Act Annual Report for 2024. Latest figures available are for 2023. The Minister for Social Protection is required by law to have completed the report by June 30th. I’ve been informed the report is complete. Waiting for updates:
Stella O'Malley below from Birr in county Offaly, a psychotherapist who founded Genspect, has started legal proceedings in the High Court against Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy CLG along with psychotherapist Leonie O'Dowd of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.
Why are the Royal Society and the UK National Commission for UNESCO supporting an award for scientists who "identify as female"? Shouldn't we be able to expect scientists to know what a woman is by now? forwomeninscience.com/challenge/show…
Exceptionally satisfying read unherd.com/2025/07/is-thi…
