Back to school brings our children new experiences and adventures, but it can also harbour anxieties and concerns. Is your child’s school going to have a 3rd party group come in to present all the reasons your child might think they’re a different gender? Will you even be informed that…
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith issued a 7 minute statement yesterday to announce that gender identity policy changes are coming. The Premiers of New Brunswick and Saskatchewan have come under fire for announcing similar policies. Quebec announced that it will conduct a review of gender identity policies in schools and the…
New Gender Identity Policy Guidance The recent lawsuits filed against the governments of Saskatchewan and New Brunswick have presented the issue of gender identity in schools as a conflict between parents’ rights and the rights of children. In fact, the rights and best interests of children will be best served…
Contributed by a Canadian lawyer currently making time for her 2 children. On June 8, 2023, the education minister for New Brunswick announced changes to a controversial policy that required teachers and staff to use a child’s preferred pronouns and preferred name, without parental consent. Policy 713 had come into…
I’m a parent at an Elementary-aged Public School in York Region District in Ontario. Sometime at the end of February, without parents’ knowledge, the school invited Canadian Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity to give a workshop on gender diversity and queer identity to students from Grade 5 to 8.…
Many articles have come out recently, in both Canada and the US, about schools hiding minor children’s trans identities from parents, under the guise of the human rights code. Parents also continue to be concerned that teachers are instructing their children that gender identity is a replacement for the biological…
An article in Canada’s National Post last week explored how children can socially transition their gender at school without the knowledge of their parents. The article received more than 1000 comments, most of them highly critical of the policy to keep a child’s gender change a secret from parents. This…
Case Dismissed The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) did not find that my daughter’s case vs OCDSB met the criteria for “direct discrimination” and their reasoning was that our daughter was not denied access to education services. They also found our argument that the repeated pattern of instruction in…
By Pascale Bourgeois Pascale is a mother of two children, a former pre-school, elementary and high school teacher and is currently completing her Doctorate in Philosophy of Education. Introduction If there is a consensus in the essentially contested[1] field of education, it’s that education should lead to freedom. No one…
An update on my daughter’s hearing at the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal My daughter’s human rights case was finally heard earlier this spring. We are waiting for the decision and expect it sometime this summer. What happened is still a raw and painful topic for us. Our daughter – now…
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