“Gender-free” Children: The Newest Fad in Public Education

By Lee Duigon:

Schools are urged to establish a “dress code to enable a student’s right to dress in accordance with their gender identity” and “the right to be addressed by one’s preferred name and pronoun” (p. 16). On the same page, the handbook recommends “access to safe restroom and locker room facilities that correspond to one’s gender identity”-in other words, teenage boys will be able to get into the girls’ locker and shower room by claiming that they “feel like a girl” today.

Schools should hire “staff with diverse gender identities and expressions” (p. 17)-yes, that seems like a good idea, doesn’t it? An even more amazing recommendation is that teachers should never address children as “boys and girls” anymore (p. 23).

“If students cling to traditional beliefs about gender,” (translation: Christian beliefs) says the handbook (p. 29), teachers ought to “challenge” them with questions-thus pitting children against adults in a debate. How often do you suppose children will win such debates? How often do you suppose they will even dare to try?

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In the de-cultured gulag of Canada in which I live if I were to comment freely about this article I would be charged with a ‘hate crime’ so instead you’ll have to imagine what I think.

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