Westmeath school gets temporary injunction banning a suspended teacher from it's premises

Looking at your example 2, you could substitute “John” for “them” and while it is clunky it is not incorrect. If Mr Burke wants to be an educator he could look for the middle ground allowing both to respect their beliefs.

They are not considered separate sexes. People born with those atypical Karotypes are still either male or female. People with DSD’s may indeed identify as trans but many more do not. A DSD is a medical diagnosis and being trans is an identity so they are separate things.

I was responding to the post that the only people who existed were XX and XY supporting a binary identity.

It's for maximum publicity generation...then sit back and watch the supporters' cheques roll in.

You gotta be kidding me!

This guy has just incinerated his own career, every school in the country will know his name after this carry on.

Yet again the Burke's have highlighted for us how many employers still seemingly don't take the simple task of googling the name of any prospective employee; there was his sister at Arthur Cox, and now this case.

Surely a simple google would have highlighted their track records from their time in NUIG, and any employer with an ounce of sense would realise that hiring them would be more trouble than it's worth.

I see what you did there. 10/10

already addressed. you'll find lots of outliers in the world, doesn't mean we all adapt to them. its primarily for the individual to deal with.

Science is indeed on my side. You can't just assert your own opinion as fact. Got any studies or citations to back your argument? Here's mine:

Studies vary, but most put the incidence of children born with intersex characteristics at around the 1.2% to 1.7% mark (Myth 2 here):

(Obviously being intersex has nothing to do with being transgender, but this is in response to the assertion that people are born either male or female)

If there were two flies crawling up a wall this family would cause a disturbance about it. They come across as obnoxious, self righteous, grossly immature idiots. Big chill pill needed there. But even bad publicity is good publicity for their causes and objections.

Weren't these lads on The Late Late during the marriage referendum and they tried to bring up porn or Anal sex?

I'd like a few of the Burke children to break away from mammy and daddy!

See this is what I can't get my head around. They all have mad first names so any prospective employer should straight away know the name, Google them and put C.V straight in the bin.

To be honest I'd have very poor opinion of employer who didn't cop this.

Once you call them for an interview your on slippey slope where they could sue you for not getting the job.

Gender isn't biological. Sex is biological and isn't binary.

The truth is, biological sex is way more complicated than XX and XY. That's what's taught in schools because it's less confusing. Not only are there the above, but you can also have things like a person with XX chromosomes and testicles and vice versa. The system is place to become one sex or the other is actually quite a delicate process. There is a silly amount of things that can and do go wrong in the process that doesn't result in the binary stereotypical XX and XY expression. In fact, looking at the odds, having majority of people come out as typical XX or XY is what's baffling. Between different genes, receptors, interactions, hormones; all having to work exactly as expected, in the exact right amount, at the exact right time, without any mutations... it's really amazing.

You can say that, well, all that shows physical outward signs. Sure, you can just look. Transgenderism is all in their head. Well, yes, and quite literally. There are actually emerging studies showing physical attributes and structural differences in the brain. Some of these studies show attributes more aligned with the sexual dimorphism of their "chosen" gender, some of them show entirely unique attributes. In fact, there's a part of the brain that was previously thought to be either male or female in size, that they're now believing is more of a spectrum with gay men showing to have a similar size to straight women.

So please, don't talk about science if you haven't actually looked into the science of it. It's very unscientific of you. And that's only talking about biological sex, wait until we delve into societal gender

By nicknames, I mean calling John "Jack", or Sarah "Sadie", etc. Not so much Jonny "MadBoiz Jon". So long as you can prove they've been used for the last two years (for example, bills), you can use them on official documents.

Changing your name every week won't work, but that's not what's happening here. The only time I've heard of it being a problem is by people holding it against transgender people. Nobody has ever called me by my old surname. The only time I've used it was playing "red letter" in school because it had some uncommon letters in it. Most people don't even know that a friend of mine uses his middle name because he had the same name as his father. People change their name in some way all the time and nobody bats an eyelid.

Edit to add: based on the policing comment, changing your name to commit fraud in any way is still illegal.