But Mr Varadkar added that parents should have the right to withdraw their children from certain classes if they wished. “Parents know what’s best for their kids. And I think we do need to respect parental choice when it comes to them guiding what’s best for their children,” he told journalists in Waterford.
“I think letters of that kind are not the way to deal with these issues. I think that there has to be a sensitivity around this and the broader context is the Relationships and Sexuality programme which is in our primary schools,” he said.In the letter to the Ministers the CPSMA expressed their belief that any decision to teach primary schoolchildren about transgenderism “would be counterproductive, generating unnecessary divisions in school communities where none now exists”.
The CPSMA, which provides advice and support for chairpersons, principals and boards of management in over 2,800 schools, said that teaching primary children “what it means to be transgender would require to teach about something with which there is neither a scientific nor social consensus to highly impressionable young children”.
The “affirmative care model has recently been rejected in Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands and the UK”, it said, while there was “mounting evidence of psychological contagion”. In the UK, “the numbers of children referred to the Gender Identity Development Service rose from 50 a year in 2009 to 2,500 in 2020″.
If this bullshite continues into schools our children meed to be removed from them. These schools that allow this are not fit for purpose
This is what happens when members of government and important public representatives get together at Dublin Castle and launch to international media one of Ireland's largest tourism festivals, and simultaneously use zero 'value judgement'.
What is teaching gender ideology in schools if not a Value judgement? It's certainly not teaching facts. Or would Dr Varadkar be so good as to put his medical expertise on show and explain how humans change sex?
Easy for them to say. Their lives were not ruined by their incompetent decisions
This is what 'they', our governments, wef,who,un et all represent. Protect the children.
Yeah this degenerate should determine how children in Ireland should be educated.
Gender ideology is Ireland’s new religion. I’m all for teaching tolerance and love, but not sexist gender stereotypes as fact. This atheist lesbian objects to all indoctrination of our children, including this new quasi- religion
No. P off
What a delightful vegetable
The Irish government has a terrible track record throughout the years of abusing kids and women in various state sponsored institutions. Now they are doing the same thing again with this Trans nonsense. You can not change your sex, fact.
The scientific fact is that there are only two genders
It can certainly be covered in 'relationships and sexuality' just as it is already when kids are a bit older. Individual cases can be handled with sensitivity by the teacher working with the child's parents but keep it out of the classroom.
Existence is not a feeling or ideology
Religion is being replaced
How about the fact that a man is not a woman?
Your city is trashy and overrated. This’s a fact, not a value judgment.
No. Not on my watch will be kids be subjected to these perverse ideologies being pushed by the woke groomer movement
but it is purely a value judgement. no actual physical facts underlie this belief these people hold. there is no human right to make up new words and force other people to use them. and certainly not to institutionalize these potentially damaging ideas on children
After the kids again. It’s never ending.
They would agenda pushing puppets
Lol whatever, won't be happening. The backlash will be YUGE.
No
There's a battle coming that will be decided at the ballot. You can't try to force removal of one subject (religion) to be replaced with another (gender theory)
Here’s a fact: you can’t change sex.
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