Séamas O'Reilly: The 'kids identifying as cats' hoax is one of malice, not stupidity

"...my familiarity with this meme goes back a little further - I’ve been hearing of the litter box hoax for years, and my initial feeling was to be quite tickled it had made its way to somewhere I knew in real life..."

Pictured: a cat, and not, as some hoaxes designed to belittle transgender and non-binary people would you have believe, a changeling student at your local secondary school

The WhatsApp message was breathless and concerned a school back home in Derry.

“Have you heard about this?” it said, and pointed to a forwarded block of text detailing a bizarre and troubling turn of events in class.