Mon Feb 27, 2023 – 8:30 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Regular readers of this column will know that on the whole I am not optimistic about the ability of whistleblowers, independent journalists, and advocates to successfully combat gender ideology in the public school system on either side of the Atlantic. The transgender movement has captured the institutions, and although there has been some encouraging pushback in the UK and elsewhere, the Overton Window has moved backward inches at most. As Matt Walsh noted after the release of his documentary What is a Woman?, the most disturbing discovery he made was the extent to which young people had accepted the basic premises of gender ideology.
With that gloomy proviso aside, I will note that there has been a number of encouraging stories of late. The most recent was just reported by Patrick O’Donoghue in the Sunday Times, who notes that in response to parental feedback (gasp!) the idea of a “gender spectrum” will be removed from the Irish school curriculum:
A lesson plan that would teach junior pupils that gender identity is “experienced along a spectrum” has been dropped after consultation with the public.
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