Secondary schools will be obliged to teach gender identity

The new junior cycle curriculum will ensure that all schools teach gender identity as part of a revised sexual education programme, along with consent and pornography. In reaction to this announcement, Newstalk Breakfast spoke to Alan Whelan, President of the Catholic Secondary Schools Parents Association, and also Jillian Brennan, CEO of the Humanist Association.

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