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Human Rights Code Used To Cancel Canadian Teacher

Now a post about Canadian schools.

The Ontario Human Rights Code is being used to silence concerned educators who speak up about inappropriate books in their Elementary school library. A teacher, Carolyn Burjoski, was removed from a virtual board meeting after her comments were deemed transphobic by the chair.

News Report About The School Board Meeting

During the meeting, Burjoski said, “Some of the books filling our libraries make it seem simple, or even cool to take puberty blockers or opposite-sex hormones.”

The teacher was interrupted by school board chair, Scott Piatkowski.

“I’m just getting a little concerned that your content may be problematic. I’m not sure exactly where you’re headed, but I would caution you to make sure that you’re not saying anything that would violate the human rights code.”

Bringing up a book titled The Other Boy by MG Hennessey, Burjoski said it chronicles the medical transition of a person “born female and now identifies as a boy.”

According to information in the teacher’s presentation, there are 106 copies of this book in K-6 WRDSB libraries. 

She told the school board that after a character named Shane is told by a doctor that taking puberty blockers and starting testosterone will make him infertile in the future, the character responds with “it’s cool.”

Burjoski said that is “a very typical adolescent response.”

“This book is misleading because it does not take into account how Shane might feel later in life about being infertile. This book makes very serious medical interventions seem like an easy cure for emotional and social distress,” the teacher said.

She was stopped again by Piatkowski, who said her comments may violate the province’s protections for gender expression and gender identity.

“I believe the delegation is talking about age appropriateness,” said Trustee Cindy Watson, who was in favour of allowing Burjoski to continue speaking.

[Source: Kitchener City News Jan 17, 2022]

Eventually her 10 minute presentation was cut short by the chair.

It gets worse.

From her website “Cancelled Teacher” Carolyn Burjoski explains what happened after the school board meeting.

The day after the meeting, I was ordered to stay home from school and barred from speaking to my colleagues and students. Because of a Covid lockdown, I hadn’t seen my students since December 2021, and I would never see them again.

Shortly after the meeting, the Board filed a formal complaint against me and hired an outside Firm to conduct a disciplinary investigation, threatening various punishments. I could not believe what was happening to me.

That week, I became the center of a national media frenzy fuelled by statements made by the Board Chair on radio, TV and social media. He attributed to me remarks that I did not make, characterized them as hateful, and accused me of violating the Human Rights Code. The Board quickly removed the meeting video from its website so people could not hear for themselves what I actually said. The Board Chair’s harmful statements about me spread like wildfire over the internet, and I received a tidal wave of online abuse.

Burjoski is taking legal action for defamation and violation of her free speech rights.

You can read more about her story here.

But apparently drag queens reading stories to kids about
gender fluidity will continue uninhibited.

Is this the world we want to live in?

See earlier post about UK schools.

Curriculum Not Suitable For Children

And you wonder why some of our states are clamping down on this?

Why Florida Passed Parental Rights Law
First Graders, Pronouns, Unicorns & Parental Rights

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Love Refuses to Affirm Confusion

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Free To Speak Against Gender Ideology

I found an important site in the UK. It’s called “Free To Speak“. They just got started.

It’s a place where Parents, Teachers, and Staff submit testimonials about how Gender Ideology has infiltrated their schools. Check it out. Below are 3 testimonials.

Here is a parent who made a difference. Unfortunately, it may not help her daughter.

Secondary School Parent, England

My daughter “came out” as trans when she was 13, about to start Year 9. I found out later, by accident, that this announcement had been two weeks after a school presentation by a trans adult via Diversity Role Models. This was kept secret from parents, meaning we didn’t discuss or debate the topic, something we like to do as a family over dinner.

When she informed the school she was a boy, they changed her name and pronouns without any discussion with us. We began to receive communications from this single-sex school about our son. Six months after we asked for a meeting, we finally got one…and were told this change was “just like a nickname”.

I later found out that gender identity theory was being taught across lessons – from Spanish to PE. One child at least was punished for saying that humans can’t change sex.

By this time, my daughter was wearing a binder, demanding puberty blockers and threatening suicide (she had been taught that 48% of trans-identified children attempt suicide, and sent me the Stonewall link). The school refused to help with my concerns, even correcting me when I referred to her in legal name.

Eventually, a member of the senior leadership team was convinced by the reams of information I had sent to overhaul the curriculum, remove all the Stonewall and Mermaids 1Stonewall and Mermaids are the two most prominent UK organizations promoting Gender Ideology posters from around the building, and stop paying the Stonewall Champions programme.

I hope that these changes will stop what has happened to us from harming other children and families. But it may be too late for us.

Queer Theory for a 5 year old.

Primary School Parent, London

My five-year old’s school had an Equality policy that described “gender neutral” as a legal protected characteristic. It took nine months for them to be convinced that this was a misrepresentation of the Equality Act.

Then, she completed homework about a man wearing hotpants and a pink wig, which I pointed out sounded sexualised (while acknowledging that these words made sense phonics-wise). I also complained about this.

After that, a child in her class said that his parents had told him that people can choose whether to be a man or a woman when they grow up. The teacher said this was true.

I have yet to complain, because it is exhausting, and I really like the teacher. It’s on the to-do list.

What hope do these kids have, with queer theory introduced at such a young age?

Co-Morbitities Ignored

Online Secondary School Parent, Scotland

My 14 year old autistic daughter attended this online school this academic year. She had been anxious and depressed and was unable to attend her old school. I informed the school that she has gender dysphoria at the beginning of the year. In consultation with her psychiatrist we decided to follow a watchful waiting approach. I told the school that we were not affirming her so we call her by a gender nickname and avoid using pronouns as she found female pronouns upsetting. Our goal was to neither affirm nor deny. We wanted to find out why she was feeling this way. The school accepted this but then stated that if my daughter asked her teachers to use male pronouns they would do so as they had to listen to the voice of the child. I sent them two statements from 2 psychiatrists recommending no male pronouns, that her situation was complex. They completely disregarded medical recommendations as well as the wishes of us the parents. I started a formal complaints procedure against the school however the process was halted by the school as they said I did not have a diagnosis of gender dysphoria for my daughter. They would not accept the 2 psychiatric statements as evidence. Their primary concern was responding to her belief that she is transgender whilst completely disregarding that her autism, depression and anxiety could play any role.

The school also refused to acknowledge that using male pronouns on my daughter was social transitioning. Their outlook was completely ideologically and I had no other way to complain. It seems online schools cannot be held accountable for their actions.

The school celebrates Pride month and as far as I know there is no explicit teaching of gender ideology in the classroom. However, it is shocking that the school believes it can dismiss medical advice in conjunction with the wishes of parents in a complex situation.

Much of this was “under the radar” until the Pandemic brought remote learning. An eye-opening experience for multiple reasons.

Parents, get involved with your schools. And calmly add your voice. Now, in the U.K. they have a practical – private way of doing so.

Free To Speak puts it this way:

Help us show how widespread the problems are.

We need your testimony to demonstrate that teaching of contentious gender theory isn’t just a problem created by a few activist schools and teachers, but one of a wider culture within education that overrides facts and evidence in favour of an ideological agenda. 

If you are a concerned parent, teacher, pupil or staff member, we want you to add your anonymous testimony to our growing body of evidence.

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Love Refuses to Affirm Confusion

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Will NHS Rethink Barbaric Surgery?

We’ve met TullipR before.

Detransitioner TullipR’s Grim Reality
DeTransitioner, TullipR, Trans OCD & Internet Addiction

Now he has decided to sue Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) over his Gender Reassignment Surgery.

There will be many more like him..

The DailyMail.com reports. 

The man says he is gay and his sexuality should have been discussed before the radical, irreversible gender surgery. ‘I have been castrated. That is the correct term,’ he says on his Twitter feed, which has 19,000 followers.

‘I cannot believe they [the NHS] were allowed to do this to me.

‘I was not even asked if I wanted to freeze my sperm, or have kids in the future.’ He does not want to be named because he is ashamed of how he looks. Instead, he tweets under the pseudonym TullipR.

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Detransitioner TullipR points out that the Reddit online community of Detransitioners now sits at 32.2k and growing rapidly. I suspect this is just the beginning.

What are we doing to our young people?

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As a Classic Christian I encourage everyone to “Embrace, Don’t Affirm.”

Individuals with a Gender Identity Disorder (Gender-Dysphoria) need Truth-filled Love. Please read this post for more details.

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