I greatly enjoyed Norma Foley’s interaction with my colleague Ben Scallan during the week, during which he asked her if she personally agreed with some of the things that are to be taught to Irish teenagers under the new Junior-Cycle SPHE curriculum, published and approved under her watch. If you haven’t seen that interview, it’s here.
What strikes me about it, more than anything else, is the sheer futility of Irish politics. The Minister cannot, clearly, state that she agrees with the idea that boys can choose to become girls, and vice versa, for the very simple reason that she does not believe this. If she believed it, it would be an easy answer: “As we learn more about the experiences of young transgender men and women, we are becoming more aware that gender is in fact expressed on a spectrum”. I don’t believe that, obviously, but it’s not especially hard to learn how to speak woke babble if you listen to others doing it for five minutes. As Minister for Education, Norma Foley will have listened to woke babble for much longer than that.
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