Roderic O’G: Transgender issues added to primary curriculum

No, I do not know what young adult means, that was one of my questions if you read again. Children leave school at 18 so not sure they mean 18-25.

The kids will grow up and not spend their time ranting about transgenderism on the internet because they learned about it from a young age and aren't afraid of it. Kids who are transgender will be able to express themselves freely, the vast majority of kids who aren't transgender will treat those kids with respect and be less liable to bully or make fun of them for being different.

You have a warped idea about what kids learn in school and why they learn it. Your doubling down on the benefit despite it being explained multiple times in multiple ways betrays your own ignorance and inability to learn. As mentioned in the first post I replied to, the benefit of the doubt is now gone and you're spinning off into your usual shouty cocoon. Prove me wrong.

The Goths always had the best music lol..the ones in my class introduced me to some great bands.

For sure. I remember 1 goth girl told us her mother dumped all her goth clothes in 3rd year, Tough love. Now you have parent's doing the opposite, buying boys dresses before they know what a boy or girl is.

You just made all this up. You do not know a single parent in real life who has done this do you?

Very interesting how the suggestibility levels of children is hardly mentioned here. Children, in theory, can be thought to believe literally anything once it's coming from an authority, which teachers are. Some teachers, as we've seen in the states, will gladly abuse their power in the name of their ideology.

FFS leave this shîte out, teach primary children how to feed themselves and look after their health and physical well-being would be more beneficial than this shîte.

I'm glad you agree. So maybe, just maybe, we should be very careful about what we put on the table, from a state education point of view at least. If a parent wants to teach their children, even indoctrinate their children, into anything, whether it be old religions or newfangled faiths, that's their right as a parent, but the right should stop with parents. Schools should have absolutely no right to indoctrinate children, it's not their place.

Given that some people seem to think it is not even a parents responsibility to teach a child how to feed itself, it definitely highlights the need to provide appropriate information about the realities of life to school children.

I'm curious as to what kind of content was delivered. It seems that those arguing with you have some sort of preconcieved notions as to what and how the topics were approached and maybe, just maybe, they'll have a better understanding and possibly be open to the idea that a general understanding is a good thing.

I won't hold my breath, but sure, there's always hope.

I, for one, support this. Especially as the kids will be heading to secondary school not long after and teenagers can be horrible, vindictive **** if allowed. I was educated in Catholic schools and in secondary school (late 90's, early 2000's) it was common for anyone who was gay to get bullied. What was worse was there would be teachers who would reinforce this behaviour, one of whom referred to a friend of mine as a "fag" with no repercussions whatsoever and completely protected under the guise of homosexuality being a sin. This wasn't that long ago, and I'm sure it was a few years before any meaningful change happened.

I'm sure parents have the choice to opt out of these lessons and are well within their right to do so. If it means that there are a majority of kids heading to secondary school with a more open mind and understanding of others and different people then hopefully the stigma and bullying will fall away as they'll see it for what it is, a load of bullshit. Let people be people.

Boards poster: Brain scans routinely show that trans peoples scans show up as their perceived gender,

Doctor from supporting study linked: “Research in these areas is extremely limited, and more research needs to be done to find conclusive results,” Dr. Altinay notes.