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August 1st 2026
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We believe this ruling strengthens the foundations of a more equal and pluralistic education system, one that reflects the full diversity of Northern Ireland and upholds children’s rights rather than assuming a single religious norm. We urge policymakers, school leaders, and the Department of Education to take this moment seriously: to reform the RE curriculum, to provide proper training for teachers, and to ensure that future approaches to religion in schools are inclusive, rights based, and respectful of all identities and beliefs. Causeway Pride celebrates this decision as a clear affirmation that every child deserves an education that supports their growth, protects their freedom of conscience, and allows them to feel safe and valued, regardless of their faith, their background, or who they are.
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Our concern is not with Christianity itself, but with the way in which religious education is currently constructed in schools. Faith is a deeply personal matter, and even for those who do have a Christian faith, the highly prescriptive and doctrinal manner in which it is being taught can be harmful. An approach that values faith should also respect children’s ability to explore, question, and form their own beliefs safely. For many LGBTQIA+ young people, school can already be a place where they struggle to feel seen, safe, or understood. When religious education is presented through a narrow, exclusively Christian lens, often without space for alternative perspectives, it can add another layer of alienation. Curricular approaches that implicitly or explicitly make moral judgements about sexuality or gender can deeply harm queer children, who deserve to grow and learn in an environment that affirms their dignity. This ruling signals that such one sided instruction is no longer acceptable and that greater inclusivity and respect for difference are necessary. The judgment is equally significant for children from minority faiths and for those from non religious families. It recognises that parents and pupils should not be placed in the position of having to withdraw from school activities in order to maintain their own beliefs, especially when such withdrawal risks stigma or isolation. Instead, the State must ensure that the education delivered in publicly funded schools is fair, balanced, and non proselytising, so that no child feels like an outsider in their own classroom.
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Causeway Pride Statement on the Supreme Court Ruling Causeway Pride welcomes the recent Supreme Court ruling as an important milestone for the rights and wellbeing of LGBTQIA+ young people across Northern Ireland, and indeed for all children especially those whose beliefs do not align with a Christian worldview. The decision, which found that the current approach to Religious Education and collective worship in controlled schools is not sufficiently neutral or balanced, affirms a fundamental principle: that every child has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and belief, and that state funded education must respect the diversity of families and identities that make up our society. It is important to us to state clearly that we are not anti Christian, nor do we view this ruling as a rejection of Christianity or its role in many people’s lives. We wish to pay sincere tribute to All Souls Church, Christians at Pride, and countless others within faith communities who have taken genuine steps towards healing old wounds, building bridges, and demonstrating that faith and LGBTQIA+ inclusion can coexist with love and solidarity. Their presence, compassion, and public witness have shown how powerful and positive faith can be when it honours the dignity of all people.
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Whether you’re a community member, volunteer, or simply want to help keep others safe, this session offers essential skills that can make a real difference. Everyone is welcome.

Hosted by Fresh Minds Education

If you would like to attend, please dm the page or email joinus@causewaypride.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Today, a representative of Mams4TransNI, in collaboration with Nest and Causeway Pride, met with Baroness Hilary Cass, author of the Cass Review, as part of the ongoing review into gender identity services in Northern Ireland. Our representative attended in a personal capacity as a previous member of the Liaison Panel into Gender Services, ensuring that the insights and lived experiences of families and young people in Northern Ireland were meaningfully represented during the discussion. We are grateful for the opportunity to engage in this important process and for the continued dedication of the other former panel members who also attended and indeed all those who advocate for better, safer, and more accessible services for trans and gender-diverse people We will issue a further and more detailed statement once we have had time to reflect on the discussions, review the information shared during the meeting, and update the families who so bravely entrusted us with their personal stories to inform our advocacy.
November 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Causeway Pride sends our heartfelt congratulations to the newly elected Mayor of New York City. This victory is more than a political milestone, it’s a signal that hope, solidarity, and progressive change are once again on the rise. Across Ireland, Britain, and the United States, the Left is finding its strength anew. From rent strikes to climate marches, from trade unions to queer collectives, people are coming together to reclaim politics for the many not the few. The tide is turning towards justice, compassion, and community. Here at home, we see that same spirit burning bright. In Northern Ireland, we know what it means to fight for equality against the odds to build solidarity across difference and to imagine a future free from fear. Our movements are connected: queer liberation, workers’ rights, housing justice, climate action, none can be won alone, but all can be won together. Yet we also know the struggle isn’t over. Across the world, reactionary forces are pushing back against trans rights, against migrants, against the planet itself. That’s why moments like this matter: they remind us what’s possible when we refuse to give up. So today, we celebrate and we organise. Because Pride is protest, solidarity is power, and the movement for justice is alive and unstoppable. The Left is rising. The people are uniting. And the fight for liberation goes on.
November 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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October 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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We stand in full solidarity with Lucina Schynning and Krystal Queer after the disgusting homophobic attack they were subjected to in Cork. What happened to them is horrifying and it’s a reminder of the violence and hatred our community still faces every day, just for being visible, proud, and queer. No one should ever be attacked for existing. The fact that bystanders laughed, filmed, and encouraged this assault shows just how deep the rot of queerphobia runs. Silence and inaction in the face of hate make people complicit. This isn’t an isolated incident it’s part of a pattern. Across this island, queer and trans people are being targeted, harassed, and assaulted. From the streets to social media, hate is being normalised while those in power look the other way. We refuse to accept that. Causeway Pride stands shoulder to shoulder with our drag family and every queer person who’s been made to feel unsafe. We send love and rage! Love for our community, rage at the systems that keep failing us. We call for: A full investigation into this attack and accountability for those responsible. Real action on hate crime prevention and reporting not more empty words. Solidarity from allies (especially politicians) speak up when you see hate, step in, don’t stay silent. Continued joy and defiance from our community because queer joy is resistance. As Lucina said, “We are going to keep enjoying ourselves and being very openly queer.” That’s exactly what we’ll keep doing loudly, proudly, and together. Hate has no place here. Our community is powerful, resilient, and unbreakable. In solidarity and pride. Causeway Pride
October 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Causeway Pride extends our warmest congratulations to Catherine Connolly on her election as President of Ireland. Although those of us in Northern Ireland do not have a vote in this election, we celebrate this historic moment and what it represents for the island as a whole. President Connolly has long been a passionate advocate for equality, inclusion, and social justice. Her record of standing up for the rights of LGBTQIA+ people, for women, and for marginalised communities gives hope to many across Ireland north and south that compassion, courage, and fairness remain at the heart of public life. Her election sends a powerful message that leadership grounded in empathy and principle continues to thrive on this island. We also wish to express our deep gratitude to outgoing President Michael D. Higgins for his years of dedicated service. His steadfast commitment to human rights, his moral clarity on global justice issues including his outspoken support for the people of Gaza and his unwavering advocacy for equality have left a profound legacy that will be felt for generations. At Causeway Pride, we believe that progress and solidarity know no borders. We look forward to continuing to work alongside partners and allies across Ireland both North and South to build a future that is inclusive, compassionate, and proud.
October 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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We are furious. Another life has been stolen, another trans or gender non-conforming person pushed past breaking point by a system that does. not. care. Let’s be absolutely clear: this is not some isolated tragedy, not some “unforeseeable” heartbreak. This is the inevitable, preventable result of deliberate neglect. We have been shouting about this for years, screaming into the void, and still, nothing changes. We knew this would happen. And we know it will happen again, because those in power have chosen not to act. The so-called “blocker ban” was the final straw for many of us, a cruel, ideological assault dressed up as “concern.” There’s nothing compassionate about denying people the healthcare they need to survive. But the truth is, this system was already broken long before that ban. Gender-affirming healthcare in the UK has been left to rot, underfunded, understaffed, and deliberately obstructed. Waiting lists stretch not for months, but for years. People are humiliated by outdated, dehumanising systems, forced to “prove” their identity to strangers who treat them like problems to be managed instead of lives to be saved. Every single day, trans people are denied care, denied dignity, denied safety, and every single day, this cruelty drives more of our community to the edge. And in Northern Ireland, it’s even worse. We have no functioning gender identity service to speak of. People are left stranded, forced to go private if they can afford it, or left to suffer indefinitely if they can’t. Sinn Féin, Alliance, the SDLP, and the UUP have all failed us. Every single one of them. They’ll show up to Pride, they’ll take their photo ops, they’ll tweet their “support,” but when it comes to actually funding services, standing up to Westminster, or protecting trans people’s lives, they vanish. Empty words and rainbow logos don’t save lives. Silence and inaction kill, just as surely as hateful laws do . . And let’s stop pretending any of this is about “concern” for young people. It’s not. It’s about power, control, and moral panic. It’s about a government, a media, and a healthcare system across the UK that do not value trans lives, that see us as something to be debated, restricted, or erased. It’s about a society that treats our existence as expendable. We are done being quiet. We are done watching people die while politicians pat themselves on the back for “balanced discussion.” We are done pretending this is anything but institutional cruelty. We are tired of vigils. We are tired of mourning people who should still be here. We are tired. of watching our friends and siblings die because the care that could have saved them was locked behind bureaucracy, hostility, and hate. This isn’t tragedy, it’s policy. Every single delay. Every appointment denied. Every headline dripping with manufactured fear. Every smug politician who chooses cowardice over compassion. They all have blood on their hands. Every day that proper, timely gender-affirming healthcare remains unavailable in Northern Ireland, in England, in Scotland, and in Wales, more lives are at risk. We are heartbroken. We are furious. And we will not be silent. We owe it to those we’ve lost, and to every trans person still fighting to survive, to keep shouting, to keep fighting, until this country treats trans healthcare as the emergency it is. Trans lives are not expendable. This has to stop.
October 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Right-wing pages: 60 million interactions. Left-wing pages: 16 million. But sure, tell me again who’s ‘shoving it down throats’ 🤔
October 8, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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October 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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The SDLP has utterly failed the trans community. Let’s be real: when it came to the puberty blocker ban, the SDLP didn’t just stay silent they sided with the oppressors. They refused to support Gerry Carroll’s motion in Stormont, choosing cowardice over courage. That’s not opposition. That’s complicity. We’ve heard directly from SDLP sources that if they’d been part of the Executive, they would have voted for the ban. And everything they’ve done (or rather, failed to do ) since the ban came into force only proves it. Not a single meaningful action. Not a word of real solidarity. More or less silence while trans kids are thrown under the bus. And now, they’re trying to save face with this pathetic bit of PR in Belfast Live. Instead of condemning the ban, they spin and waffle, trying to sound supportive without actually saying anything. It’s cynical, it’s hollow, and it’s insulting. Meanwhile, People Before Profit, the Greens, and the Socialist Party have made their positions crystal clear. They’ve shown up, spoken out, and taken action. They’ve stood with trans people when it mattered. The SDLP? They’ve proven they’ll sell out trans rights the second it’s politically convenient. Don’t let them pretend otherwise. Trans people deserve real allies! Not cowards in fancy dress who’ll happily look the other way while young people’s lives are put at risk.
October 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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September 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Commitee members proudly supporting Trans Pride in Belfast today
September 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Get your butts to Writers Square!

Trans Pride here until 3pm
September 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Schools are collapsing. Teachers are stretched to breaking point. Special Educational Needs provision is being gutted, leaving some of the most vulnerable children abandoned by a system that has already failed them. And the DUP? Their priority isn’t fixing any of this it’s waging a toilet-based culture war. Now teachers already exhausted, already underpaid, already stretched are now being told they can’t even use the correct pronouns for trans kids. They’re being ordered to deny children’s identities, to harm them in the very classrooms where they should be safe. It is nothing less than state-mandated bullying. This is not policy. This is cruelty. Trans children are being used as disposable political pawns, targeted not because anyone cares about their wellbeing, but because some politicians see them as an easy enemy to demonise. And where are the rest of the Executive parties? Where is Sinn Féin, so keen to call themselves champions of equality? Where is the SDLP, always ready with flowery words but silent when it really counts? Where is Alliance the so-called “progressive party” that claims to stand for inclusion, yet falls silent when trans kids are under attack? Silence in the face of cruelty is complicity. And every day they say nothing, they side with the DUP. It is ideology over care. It is hate dressed up as law. It is distraction politics of the worst kind whipping up fear about toilets and pronouns while real children go without the education, resources, and protection they need to survive. We see it. We will not let it pass unchallenged. We stand with trans kids. Their safety, their dignity, and their wellbeing come before the cowardice of politicians, before the cheap stunts of the DUP, before the silence of so-called progressives. Always. And if the DUP think they can build a future on scapegoating children, and if the rest of the Executive think they can wash their hands of it? They’re wrong. That future will crumble and history will remember …
September 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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September 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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This is the moment to act. • Email and call your MLAs. Demand they condemn Nesbitt’s decision and commit to defending trans healthcare. • Tag Naomi Long, Michelle O’Neill, and Claire Hanna directly. Ask them where the fuck they stand. • Organise, protest, make noise because silence is what they are counting on. Mike Nesbitt has made his choice: to sacrifice trans people to save himself. Now every leader in Stormont must act! Naomi Long. Michelle O’Neill. Claire Hanna, and every MLA serving under them Pick a side. Right now. Stand with us, or betray us. Because history is watching. Your communities are watching. And so are we. We won't forgive and we wont forget!
September 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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MIKE NESBITT IS SACRIFICING TRANS PEOPLE TO SAVE HIS CAREER Mike Nesbitt has decided that trans people are expendable. By commissioning Hilary Cass to “review” gender services in Northern Ireland, he has imported a discredited, dangerous process that has already devastated lives in England. Cass’s work is not independent, it is not neutral, it is a weapon and Nesbitt is using it against us. This is not leadership. This is not “evidence-based.” This is cowardice, cruelty, and careerism. And it will kill people. Trans people here already face obscene waiting lists, neglect, and systemic discrimination. Some of us are forced to self-medicate. Some of us are dying. And instead of fixing that crisis, Nesbitt has chosen to sacrifice us for his own survival. He is not fit to be Health Minister. He is a fucking disgrace. And to the so-called “allies”: Naomi Long. Michelle O’Neill. Claire Hanna. You and your parties march at Pride. You post rainbows every June. You brand yourselves “progressive.” But when Mike Nesbitt hands trans people over to Hilary Cass, you are silent. That silence is betrayal of trans people, of your own voters, of the values you pretend to stand for. If you cannot find the courage to stand with us now, then stop calling yourselves allies. Because you’re fucking not. Let us be crystal clear: Causeway Pride will never again be a stage for liars and opportunists. If you won’t fight for us when it matters, don’t you dare come looking for applause later. You will NEVER again be welcome.
September 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Foyle pride and ourselves have something new to announce 😁
💜 Parents of LGBTQIA+ kids – you don’t have to do this alone. 💜 Right now, in Northern Ireland, too many families are left without support when their child comes out. It can feel isolating, confusing, or even overwhelming, and that’s not fair on parents or on our young people. That’s why we’re starting something new: NEST A peer-led network of parents who understand, who care, and who are ready to walk this road together. From Foyle to the Causeway Coast, through Ballymena, Mid & East Antrim, Newtownabbey, and Carrickfergus – NEST will bring parents together for local meet-ups, cups of tea, honest chats, and solidarity. If you’re a parent or carer and want to be part of this new community, drop us an email, and we’ll get you linked in. Because every young person deserves a family that feels supportive, and every parent deserves a nest to land in. n.e.s.t.parentsgroup@gmail.com Jason Dunne (Chair Foyle Pride) Curtis Lee (Chair MEA Pride) Gwen Montgomery (Mams4TransNI) Riley McCahon (Chair Causeway Pride)
September 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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