Mick Clifford: We live in an age of intolerance

There has been an explosion in the number of teenagers over the last decade raising issues around their gender.

Last weekend, the Sunday Independent ran a piece by psychotherapist Jacky Grainger. She wrote of what she was subjected to after co-authoring an article about a proposed conversion therapy ban bill three years ago.

Conversion therapy is a highly controversial process in which an attempt is made with teenagers who are gay or wishing to transition gender to convince them they are not gay or trans