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Irish PM says primary school children must learn ‘what it means to be transgender’

March 07, 2023

A row has emerged between Irish Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar, and the Irish Catholic Primary Schools Management Association (CPSMA), which has an oversight role in 89 per cent of the primary schools in Ireland. In a letter to Irish government children’s and education ministers, the schools association challenged views expressed by the minister for children

Court frees gender ideology prisoner of conscience

December 22, 2022

The Irish teacher Enoch Burke, who was incarcerated in Ireland for three months, has been released from prison in advance of Christmas despite his refusal to purge his contempt of court. Mr Burke was jailed in September this year for breaching a court order which stopped him from attending work at the school from which

Scottish bishops oppose ‘unsafe’ Gender Recognition Reform Bill

December 20, 2022

The Catholic bishops of Scotland have aligned themselves with women’s groups and JK Rowling in urging MSPs to throw out a Bill to permit sex change by self-declaration. They say they are “gravely concerned” that the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill will pose a threat to women and girls from predatory males who self-identify as

Conservative leadership candidates on trans issues and the right to life

July 13, 2022

Last week, Boris Johnson finally packed his bags. Or, at least, he started to. The Tory PM – who is credited with ‘getting Brexit done’, and broadly having made a decent fist of COVID and the UK response to the war in Ukraine – was eventually beset with scandals, as well as a growing loss