This is Ireland’s education minister
It’s always two steps forward, one step back.
This is all about coercion through psychological manipulation. They know there is going to be a backlash, so they push it too far, so they have something to concede. It’s very simple, but so few are aware of it that the population tends to feel like they’ve won when a government softens an agenda they’ve presented, despite the fact that it is obvious that the government is still able to force through something that never would have been accepted before they made the original proposal.
If you can make people feel like you are compromising with them, they will not ever look at the sum total of the changes.
The plan to teach children that gender resides on a “spectrum” has been abandoned, a report on Sunday has claimed.
A planned rework of Ireland’s Social, Personal, and Health Education (SPHE) curriculum that aimed to teach children that “gender identity” was on a “spectrum” has reportedly been abandoned by the government, a report on Tuesday has claimed.
It comes at a time when transgenderism both in Ireland and Europe has encountered increasing resistance from parents, politicians and society as a whole, with recent revelations surrounding Britain’s infamous Tavistock child gender identity clinic seemingly prompting a backlash against the ideology.
According to a report by the Sunday Times, the initial re-work of the SPHE syllabus was aimed to include a number of claims about an individual’s “so-called” gender identity, including that such an identity is not binary.
The original “learning outcome” for this course was to help children “appreciate that sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression are core parts of human identity and that each is experienced along a spectrum”.
Such a suggestion, however, is said to have received significant backlash from parents, and therefore Ireland’s National Council for Curriculum and Assessment has now reportedly decided to drop the changes.
Instead, pupils in Ireland are to be taught that there are a number of “factors and influences” that shape an individual’s identity, including “family, peers, culture, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnic background, disabilities, religious beliefs/world view”.
A number of parents who were greatly concerned by the proposed changes appear to be celebrating the government reversal, with one mother telling The Times that she is pleased that the idea of gender being a spectrum will not be taught.
Sarah Holmes, a parent from County Wicklow, said that there was a danger that the curriculum as proposed could have caused “widespread confusion” for children and that the gender ideology adopted by the government has been “taken on in schools without any debate and without parental knowledge”.
However, while some are celebrating the changes as a victory, others have expressed doubt as to how meaningful the changes really are. The editor of conservative news publication Gript Media, John McGuirk, has warned that some teachers may still be able to teach their pupils that gender is a “spectrum” under the coming curriculum rework.
“This new wording, I would worry, does leave it up to teachers a little too much,” McGuirk wrote in an article examining the government U-turn. “There certainly does not seem to be an active prohibition on teachers telling students that their gender is a choice – all that is happening is that teaching this will no longer be a requirement of the curriculum.”
Ireland was formerly the single most Christian and conservative country in Europe, and in a few short years, they’ve caught up with Germany or France and are actually in some ways surpassing them.
The single women who support these agendas were feeling ashamed that their country wasn’t keeping up with the latest fashions of homosexuality and feminism, and now they are trying to overcompensate by aggressively ramming everything through – pun intended.