SCHOOLS & SAFEGUARDING.
Children and teenagers in Ireland are being exposed to harm in the form of teaching of gender ideology as fact, the undermining of single-sex provisions within schools and clubs, and the social transition of peers and classmates.
There have been major revisions to the curricula for Relationships and Sexuality Education in both primary and post-primary settings and gender ideology has been integrated into this teaching. The Countess campaigned against the teaching of gender identity theory as fact and although this was dropped from the draft curriculum, the resources used in some schools, especially certain textbooks, are still promoting this ideology.
The use of third-party resources and training for school teachers is also worrying as biased material can undermine parents’ rights as the primary educators of their children. These resources often mislead teachers about the law around self-id, pronouns, and the use of toilets and changing facilities by boys who think they are girls and vice versa.
The safeguarding norms of supervision and single-sex dorms etc. in clubs are being eroded by the introduction of policies that allow children with a trans identity to use the intimate spaces designed for the opposite sex.
The Countess has developed resources and guides for parents, schools and clubs that are factual and unbiased.
Irish children are at risk from social, medical and surgical procedures that are designed to cement a transient phase of identity development. These are untested and dangerous interventions, and medical and surgical interventions have irreversible consequences.
TRANSITIONING OF MINORS.
The Countess does not endorse the idea of “the trans child”. It is known from research that over eighty percent of children who profess a transgender identity or are diagnosed with gender dysphoria will “grow out of it” by adulthood. Social transition, whereby a child will adopt the clothing, pronouns and mannerisms of the opposite sex, and others will go along with it, is not a neutral act. It is a profound psychosocial intervention that is the first step in a pathway that leads to sterility, surgical mutilation and poorer health in adulthood.
The original studies done in the Netherlands were not rigourous or ethical and one child died following surgical interventions. Medical and surgical procedures designed to alter a person’s appearance to that of the opposite sex are not shown to result in improved mental health and can have devastating long-term consequences.
Vulnerable groups of children are overrepresented in the stats from gender clinics, including autistic girls, same-sex attracted children, and children who have been in care. Young butch lesbians are increasingly adopting transgender identities, in a bizarre form of conversion therapy.
It is unconscionable that these victims of gender ideology are not being given a voice. The Countess has been raising awareness of these harms and will continue to do so until the practice is stopped.
