First libraries, now schools are under attack for teaching about LGBTQ+ identities

Concerted attempts are under way to characterise portions of the updated relationship and sexuality education curriculum as evidence of some malign agenda to corrupt or endanger our young people.

From this September, Junior Cycle secondary school students will learn about consent, issues and risks related to online pornography and about sexual and gender identity.

Attempts to introduce or implement relationship and sexuality education (RSE) in this country have always attracted fierce opposition from some corners of society.

In the not-so-distant past of 1998, a meeting was organised in Trim, Co Meath, to discuss the introduction of RSE in a local primary school. What was intended as an information session for parents never took place.