Louise McSharry

You know, for what?

Like, you know, come back to me when you can prove to me that trans people are the root of all evil, because I'm certainly not seeing it.

Like, it's crazy.

is what like really gets me going this like because I just you know we had made great progress it feels like as a as a society in terms of just allowing people to just literally all you're saying is just let you live your life the way that you want to live your life and for the vast vast vast vast vast vast vast majority of cases that has absolutely no impact on anyone else

And yet for some reason, we've decided to make this a bone of contention, a topic of debate.

And now, you know, legislation and, you know, high level decisions that actually mean that, you know, people's lives are really being impacted.

People who probably already have quite challenging lives.

It's absolutely galling.

I can't understand it.

I will never understand it.

And I'll never shut up about it because it's disgraceful.

Like the Girl Guides thing really, like really gets me.

Okay, let's move on.

This is good news in the context of Assad's situation.

Northern Ireland has become the first part of the UK or Ireland to offer paid leave for people experiencing miscarriage.

Like, yes, this should already be the case.

It's bananas.

England Scotland and Wales as well but it's I mean commendable and creditable I think that Northern Ireland is taking the lead on it yeah and I know just to acknowledge that uh you guys may remember kind of feels like a long time ago now I had Sinn Féin Senator Nicole Ryan on the podcast talking about her efforts in this category in this part of Ireland uh to try and get similar rights for people who experience miscarriage after her own experience of miscarriage

And I know that she's working kind of tirelessly on that.

So hopefully we will see something happen here as well, because it is just bananas that you would be expected to kind of carry on as normal or take annual leave in the context of a pregnancy loss, which can be so, I mean, it can be physically very difficult and also obviously emotionally and mentally extremely difficult as well.