How the Irish media manufactured a moral panic

How the Irish media manufactured a moral panic A pedestrian green light in Trafalgar Square, London, displaying the transgender symbol instead of the usual man crossing the street symbol. This is from a 2016 cooperation between Transport for London and Siemens. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / David Monniaux.

In recent years, schools, the media, and other institutions in Ireland have come to accept a set of transgender-related claims as the new normal. This shift was not the result of careful argument or evidence, but of sustained lobbying. Teachers and principals accepted this newly sanctioned view largely because journalists amplified it without interrogation. Those…

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