Our Education Minister, Paul Givan, issued sensible guidance to the Education Authority on gender issues in schools. He made it clear: boys are boys and girls are girls. Boys should not compete in girls’ sports. Female changing rooms are not for men. This is not extreme; it is simple common sense.
Yet the response from Alliance and others on the woke left was to condemn him. They even claimed this guidance would encourage teachers to bully pupils. That is not only a disgraceful slur on the professionalism of teachers and classroom assistants, but it reveals much about their real agenda. They want children’s education framed not around reality, but around ideology.
Charlie Kirk stood firmly for that same common-sense approach. His convictions were rooted in his faith – as mine are too – but they spoke more broadly to anyone who values truth, fairness and the foundations of a stable society.
The same is true on immigration. Across the Western world, and here in the UK, when ordinary people raise legitimate concerns about illegal immigration, the left responds not with answers but with insults – “racist”, “far right”. These are not arguments. They are attempts to silence debate. And by silencing people, they fuel resentment among those who feel their voices are not welcome.
Charlie Kirk never shied away from those issues. He spoke truth with conviction, but also with compassion. And so must we. The DUP will not be silenced. We will not bow to those who sneer at the values of ordinary people. We will speak for the majority in Northern Ireland who have had enough of being lectured to, enough of the woke agenda, and enough of an out-of-touch political class who think they know best.
