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📢 Information Notice Concerned citizens will be outside Malahide SuperValu to present a letter outlining our concerns to store management about their partnership with BelongTo - and to have respectful conversations with customers about the campaign. 🗓️ Friday, July 17th 🕡 6:30pm 📍 Malahide SuperValu Our approach is peaceful and focused on raising awareness about the importance of protecting children and safeguarding childhood. ❤️ Thank you to everyone who supports positive community engagement.

A personal observation from my time working (23yrs) in a school 🇮🇪 During supervision duty on corridors before start of classes, during break times & end of school day, one of the regular jobs was moving groups of boys away from near or outside the girls’ toilets. They’d hang around there & target the girls coming out with some really vile, nasty comments. It wasn’t every boy or every day & plenty of teenagers never went near this kind of behaviour, but it happened often enough that it became part of the routine. What struck me most was how schools show a side of teenage life that parents rarely see, a boy who was perfectly decent on his own could completely change when he was with his mates. In the group, some of them switched into this laddish mode where the ‘fun’ was making crude remarks about girls, scoring points with each other by being as obnoxious as possible. It was all about getting laughs & kudos from the pack. I’m pretty sure most parents have no idea this goes on, they see their son at home & assume that’s how he acts everywhere. At the same time, they often don’t realise what their daughters are dealing with every single school day, the comments, the waiting around, the feeling of being targeted just for walking down a corridor or using the toilet. It’s a reminder that the group dynamic in secondary school can bring out behaviours that would never happen in isolation & a lot of it stays hidden from home.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Keeping separate toilets for boys & girls is a basic, common-sense safeguard that protects girls, the group that suffers most when toilets are biologically mixed.

I guess we need to "cop on" about giving children as young as five puberty blockers. What were we thinking? No child is born in the wrong body, and it's only a matter of time before these children and young teens hold the adults in the room accountable for allowing it. Sinn Féin has got this wrong. #ProtectOurChildren