{"id":649365,"date":"2026-08-21T16:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/649365\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T16:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:55:13","slug":"irish-academic-cited-research-on-trans-3-year-olds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/649365\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish academic cited research on trans 3-year-olds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An academic who was previously enlisted by the NCCA to help advise on Ireland\u2019s sex education curriculum claimed that \u201csince they could communicate\u201d, toddlers can \u201cvehemently articulate an alternative to the sex they were assigned at birth.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a resurfaced 2021 video presentation delivered to the Irish Institute for Catholic Studies (IICS), University of Limerick sociology Associate Professor Dr. Aoife Neary said that young children are \u201cprocessing gender identity\u201d from very early on and described instances of \u201cgender fluid open-ended child-led parenting\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Get unlimited access to Gript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An academic who was previously enlisted by the NCCA to help advise on Ireland\u2019s sex education curriculum claimed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[4391,79,53043,2597,18,19,17,4172],"class_list":["post-649365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-ben-scallan","tag-business","tag-curriculum","tag-education","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-schools"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117134552473574367","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}