'The harsh reality is that sometimes school is the only place a child feels (free to be themeselves)'
In back, people supporting the 1 Million March 4 Children chant into a megaphone calling for schools to stop teaching gender identity and sexual orientation at schools while a group of counter-protestors in front chant"Love not hate" outside City Hall on Wednesday. NICOLE SULLIVAN/CAPE BRETON POSTA story I saw in the news a few years ago will always stay with me.His body was found days later.
But it seemed, sadly, like one final indignity for a person who had simply wanted to be accepted on his own terms; recognized for his true self.It is for children like the one he once was that I can’t be in favour of the type of rules recently adopted in New Brunswick and Saskatchewan — laws that say the parents of students under 16 must be informed of and consent to the pronoun or pronouns chosen by their children.
Participants, including children, at a rally against promoting gender ideology in schools wave signs at counter-protesters Wednesday in front of the Confederation Building in St. John’s. A brief shouting match and scuffle broke out during the two protests and RNC officers stepped in to keep the peace.
As Saskatchewan’s advocate for children and youth, Lisa Broda, points out in a review of that province’s pronoun policy in schools, forbidding school staff from using students’ preferred names and pronouns without prior consent from their parent or guardian violates the students’ rights under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child.
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