Senator Regina Doherty is notorious for having said: "today we probably have around nine genders…”
I emailed her at her office on 4 December 2022 (cc'd Taoiseach and IHREC) asking if she had ever identified these 9 or so genders.
Still waiting for an answer.
Will I get one?
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@Casey5122dark
Come now, it’s very difficult to answer this question. In fact, not unlike the Observer Effect in quantum physics, attempting to count genders collapses them into a definite state, and, as the Senator put it, this would ‘diminish any other gender within the gender identity set.’
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@timcrowley_
I stand corrected! Who could have appreciated that, in (apparently) refusing to answer my question, the Senator was just displaying a firm grasp quantum genderology.
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@Casey5122dark
In fairness the good Senator may have got confused with cats which have 9 lives. Politicians too have several lives & often transition in the Senate or reincarnate on another planet.
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@DerekMPH
True. I hadn’t considered that.
And indeed, having been rejected by the voters, she underwent an apotheosis to the Mount Olympus of Irish Politics, An Seanad, which may have instilled in her a belief of the prevalence of metamorphoses.
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@Casey5122dark
Remember what James Gogarty said when asked if he'd get a receipt off Ray Burke !
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@Casey5122dark
You misunderstood. She said “Nein, genders”. She was disagreeing with the premise.
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@RoisinMichaux
Of course! That would explain a lot except, perhaps, why she suddenly started to speak in German!
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@IrlMOS
I estimate it would take her all of, say, 5 minutes to dictate those names to one of her secretaries, a tremendous outlay of time and effort.
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@Yggdrassil_2022
Indeed! Doherty's mere 9 genders makes her seem a bit stingy, or perhaps someone who just pulled a number at random out of the air.
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@helerina
I am shocked to hear that!
I once had a letter from a Minister’s Private Secretary telling me the Minister would be in touch with me as soon as possible (or something to that effect.) I can’t remember the day or month, but the year was 1995!
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@worldsgonemad98
Well, if quantum genderology is as complicated as it appears, that would explain why a reply maybe a long time coming, perhaps never?
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