Teachers vote to protect peers from discrimination in schools

New president of the INTO Joe McKeown and vice-president John Driscoll. Mr McKeown proposed a motion to protect teachers from discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation at the INTO annual conference.

Primary teachers have moved to condemn any homophobic, biphobic and transphobic attitudes that may be expressed, including implicitly, in schools.

Delegates attending the second day of the annual Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) passed a motion aiming to protect teachers from discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation.