Ten years of the GRA in Ireland and the concerted effort by the state to force gender ideology on the Irish population has harmed Irish children. That’s the conclusion of human rights organisation, The Countess, who today released a paper exploring the impact of the Gender Recognition Act on children in Ireland.
Spokeswoman for The Countess, Sorcha Nic Lochlainn, said “This deep-dive by Safeguarding lead, Judith Murphy, a retired social worker with many years of experience, exposes the insidious and pervasive nature of gender ideology in Irish schools and clubs, the impact this has on child development and safeguarding, and the implications for Irish children of this wholesale adoption of this unproven ideology. The paper lays out how official government policy forces schools to implement policies that harm children and how activists are controlling the narrative. The paper ends by analysing the impact within families when children identify as trans and the impact on children when their parents do.”
Nic Lochlainn went on to say, “It is vital that people understand how embedded these activist-led policies are in schools, clubs and sports. Unravelling the harms starts with understanding where we are and we are proud that this paper goes some way towards that understanding.”
“Although many of the developments were already in motion prior to the Gender Recognition Act being passed, and may have come to pass without it, the fact that such a law was introduced made the claims of trans activists a legal reality in Ireland. They successfully introduced the idea that ‘it is a human right to have one’s gender identity acknowledged by the state’. The mantra ‘transwomen are women and transmen are men!’ is officially true. In other words, the Irish state has adopted gender ideology.”
“Neither state nor school should have the right to compel anybody to believe something. It is not democratic, it is not constitutional, it is morally wrong, and it is abusive to children.
Gender identity belief or gender ideology is based on a falsehood, a lie that denies the fundamental reality of what it is to be human. There are few facts so basic, observable, and true as the fact that that humans come in two versions: male and female. We know what their roles are in procreation and that sex is important.”
“Gender ideology denies the fact that this is extremely important for humans, families, and children. It denies all we know about human development but insists that the made-up story that humans have a gender identity which determines whether a person is male or female, a man or a woman, a father or a mother is a fact.”
The paper is available on The Countess website.