Irish PM says primary school children must learn 'what it means to be transgender'

A row has emerged between Irish Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar, and the Irish Catholic Primary Schools Management Association (CPSMA), which has an oversight role in 89 per cent of the primary schools in Ireland.   

In a letter to Irish government children’s and education ministers, the schools association challenged views expressed by the minister for children in Ireland, Roderic O’Gorman, that children in primary school should be taught about "what it means to be transgender".   

In a strongly worded letter sent in January, seen by the Irish Independent, the Association argued that teaching primary school children “what it means to be transgender would require to teach something about which there is neither a scientific nor social consensus to highly impressionable young children".