In light of the controversy surrounding the Irish Council for Civil Liberties’ ‘Trans Rights Guide’ last week, I contacted the Department of Education to get their take on it all, inquiring additionally whether schools do, in fact, have an obligation to use students’ preferred names and pronouns, as the guide had suggested.
In their response, they essentially contradicted the State-backed guide, saying rather that there was nothing to “preclude” a school from using such in day-to-day interactions.