There has been remarkably little serious discussion about how Irish schools are supposed to respond to the sudden rise in children identifying as transgender. This is not something teachers were trained for, and it is not an area in which teachers’ unions or school management bodies have any real expertise. Yet schools have been left…
Teachers were not trained to deal with gender transition
A sign for an all-gender restroom from Washington DC’s TransPride in 2017. Photo: Ted Eytan / Wikimedia Commons.

