Protests mounting and Pride flags underfoot after Ottawa teachers told to refer to all students with 'they/them pronouns' and prohibit opt-outs from '2SLGBTQ+ learnings'



In its latest effort to force staff and students to fully embrace LGBT activism and gender ideology, an Ottawa school board appears to have found Canadians' breaking point.

Upon learning that students will no longer be referred to as boys or girls, but will rather be addressed as sexless pluralities, protesters took to the streets, demanding that the leftist administrators "leave the kids alone."

How did it start?

A trio of Ottawa-Carleton District School Board superintendents reportedly sent a letter to staff May 31 entitled, "Supporting Inclusivity: Actions for Pride Month and Beyond." The letter, obtained by Chanel Pfahl, a school trustee candidate, clarified that nothing save for total submission to LGBT precepts would be acceptable in the district.

Mary Jane Farrish, the superintendent of equity instruction, Shannon Smith, superintendent of indigenous education instruction, and Brent Smith, acting superintendent of program and learning, stressed that "2SLGBTQ+" representation in the curriculum and classroom is a "fundamental human right."

Accordingly, staff must embed resources that "accurately reflect and honor 2SLGBTQ+ identities into curriculum subjects and the overall learning environment, from Kindergarten to Grade 12."

The superintendents noted that honoring non-straight "identities" and peddling LGBT propaganda in every grade were only partial measures.

Teachers were further instructed to use "they/them pronouns" when referring to all students, not just those with gender dysphoria.

Extra to asking teachers to apply a blanket denial of biological reality in their engagement with students, the superintendents underscored that "2SLGBTQ+ learnings should be offered to the school community without the option to opt out. It is essential to understand that human rights are not open to debate or selective participation."

The Counter Signal reported that last week there was a silent protest in the district: absenteeism skyrocketed on the first day of Pride, with absences reaching above 60% in two schools and over 40% in nine others.

Elsewhere in Canada, TheBlaze recently reported that Muslim students were told they "can't be Canadian" if they refused to participate in LGBT events.

Concerning the prohibitions on opt-outs, OCDSB spokesman Darcy Knoll told the Epoch Times said, "When providing learning experiences, we do not offer proactive exemptions or excuse students from the learning on the basis that we may be highlighting a particular group of people defined by their race, religion/creed, ability, sexual orientation or gender identity. This would result in sending a message that a group of people in our community is not valued and do not belong."

As for the letter itself, Knoll said the idea was "to suggest some actions that can be taken during Pride Month and beyond to promote inclusivity and belonging in our schools."

While the OCDSB presently officially celebrates Pride Month," it may soon follow suit with the Canadian government, which celebrates "Pride Season."

Not going to take it anymore

The Ottawa Sun reported that British Columbia-based Chris Elston, critic of gender ideology and father of two who goes by "Billboard Chris" online, joined other demonstrators outside of Notre Dame High School Friday for a rally called "Education over Indoctrination.

Elston forewarned Ottawa residences in April that he was coming, stating, "No more silence."

The OCDSB issued a statement ahead of the protest, noting, "This individual, as well as others associated with this demonstration, have a history of aligning with and promoting inflammatory, transphobic, and hateful content against members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community."

"There are many in the community who are deeply concerned about these protests and wondering how to respond," continued the statement. “We encourage you to keep your message positive, promote the inclusive nature of our community, and share your support for 2SLGBTQ+ students, staff and community members, but do not create additional risks outside of schools."

Masked leftists attacked Elston at the rally, though he did not appear to take the bait.

\u201cMasked antifa attacking @BillboardChris . He took it stoically and in his stride. The violence including violent language so far has been from the pro gender side.\u201d
— Rupa Subramanya (@Rupa Subramanya) 1686322273

Josh Alexander, the teen suspended from his high school in Renfrew, Ontario, after stating in class that God created only two genders, also attended the protest.

Parents, students, and other concerned citizens chanted, "Save our kids."

Just as various faith groups united in opposition to LGBT propaganda Tuesday in Rockville, Maryland, Muslim and Christian parents in Ottawa denounced the OCDSB's plan to force non-binary pronouns on kids, reported the Counter Signal.

During the protest, some protesters and their children stomped Pride flags.

\u201cYoung muslim kids STOMP the pride flag as their mothers cheer them on\u201d
— The Pleb \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 Reporter (@The Pleb \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 Reporter) 1686324836

Earlier in the day, one protester was filmed taking down Pride decor nearby the school.

\u201cBREAKING: A showdown is ramping up right now in Ottawa after the school board told all teachers to call all kids by "they/them" pronouns, permanently. Everyone student is now non-binary, and protesters are getting furious. Situation escalating.\u201d
— Keean Bexte (@Keean Bexte) 1686323281

Counterprotesters, some carting around signs that said, "Pride Not Prejudice," reported chanted, "Trans rights are human rights."

The black-clad militants among the pro-LGBT demonstrators also chanted, "Go home fascists."

\u201c\u201cGo home fascists!\u201d\n\nLarge crowd of antifa and far-left counter protesters in Ottawa today at the Education over Indoctrination rally.\u201d
— Harrison Faulkner (@Harrison Faulkner) 1686332830

CTV News indicated that five people were arrested at the rally.

LGBT activists are greatly troubled by the resistance they are now seeing by parents and students.

"We’re dealing with probably some of the scariest forms of pushback against LGBTQ2 rights, in particular to those who are transgender and non-binary," Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah, executive director of the Canadian Center for Gender and Sexual Diversity, told Global News. "We’re seeing a much more coordinated attack in areas that we’ve never seen before, including school board meetings, including Pride events, whether it’s drag story time – these are all new tactics that we’re seeing."

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Teacher allegedly suspended for removing pride flag from Canadian classroom may be paying price for her son's defiance of LGBT indoctrination



LGBT activists have proven incapable of discouraging a Canadian high school student from affirming Christian teaching as it pertains to transgenderism and other issues of moral relevance, so it appears they're now going after his family.

In November, 17-year-old Josh Alexander was suspended from St. Joseph's High School in Renfrew, Ontario, after he stated openly in class that God created only two genders. He was subsequently banned from school property for the remainder of the year, then arrested in February when he attempted to return. Alexander has since been criticized in the press and hounded online.

Notwithstanding the temporal trouble his faith has gotten him into, the teen has remained resolute.

The punishment and criticism having been unable to crush Alexander, it appears as though his parents, both reportedly teachers who work for the Renfrew County District School Board, have been fitted up as targets.

The boy's father, Matt Alexander, is a grade 7/8 teacher. His mother, Nicole Alexander, teaches kindergarten.

Alexander tweeted on Sunday, "I have been informed that both my mother and father have been put on leave and removed from the classroom. My parents are under attack simply for having raised me."

"They couldn't get to me so they've attacked my family," he added.

\u201cI have been informed that both my mother and father have been put on leave and removed from the classroom. \nMy parents are under attack simply for having raised me.\nThey couldn't get to me so they've attacked my family.\nI recently had the opportunity to tell the world.\u201d
— Josh Alexander (@Josh Alexander) 1683467928

"I found that my mom has been put under investigation and removed from the classroom indefinitely. My dad has already been kicked out two weeks ago. He's also under investigation," Alexander told independent Canadian reporter Abdusselmam Bezirgan.

The teen stressed that he is ready to face the consequences of his actions, but that he ought to be alone in paying the price.

According to the Epoch Times, Alexander's mother received notice Monday that she was under investigation and had been put on leave. The reason provided was that she had removed a pride flag affixed to the door of her kindergarten classroom.

Nicole Alexander said that she had taken down the flag to protect her students, reported the Post Millennial.

"Somebody reported her and went to the superintendent who told her that in order to protect the students, they’d have to put her on leave and place her under investigation," Alexander told the Epoch Times.

As for the boy's father, it remains unclear why he was suspended, although Alexander suspects his activism played a part.

"Renfrew County’s not a big area. Everybody knows everybody and there’s obviously a lot of talk about me," Alexander said. "It’s no secret that they’re my parents."

According to the board's website, individuals found to have contravened the board's speech codes and woke conventions, particularly concerning LGBT issues, "may be required to take part in additional anti-oppression training."

The board's "Gender Identity and Gender Expression Guideline" states that the "RCDSB is committed to fostering environments where all members of the organization feel safe and comfortable to explore and share their gender identity and gender expression. In addition, the District is committed to ensuring students, parents/guardians, and staff are safe from all forms of discrimination."

Students, parents, and staff are not permitted to take a passive role, but instead are warned they have "a responsibility to ensure that people of all genders and gender expressions have safe learning and working environments."

Teachers such as Alexander's parents are required to affirm LGBT lifestyles and buttress community members' social-constructivist claims.

The guide RCDSB teachers must adhered to prompts them to challenge normalcy and promote transgenderism.

To this end, students, staff, and parents are required to "respect" made-up pronouns and other "gender expressions."

Notwithstanding this latest pressure campaign, Alexander is not backing down. He is staging a walkout protest on May 17.

Life Site News indicated the 11th-grader has also submitted an application to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal claiming his "creed" beliefs have been discriminated against.

TheBlaze reached out to Alexander for comment, but did not receive a reply at the time of publication.

Exclusive: Both parents of Christian student activist Josh Alexander suspended from their jobs youtu.be

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High school students reject 'International Day of Pink' and protest drag performance at Toronto-area school, hand out Bibles



A woke Canadian school board had students celebrate gay riots, drag queens, and LGBT activism Wednesday, cloaking children in pink garments and subjecting them to a performance by a transvestite.

Despite social pressure by both the Toronto District School Board and the York Mills Collegiate Institute to conform and participate, some young Canadians took a stand against what they characterized as indoctrination efforts.

'International Day of Pink'

The Toronto Star reported that LGBT activists, speakers, and performers were brought to the Toronto-area school as part of the so-called "International Day of Pink."

The website for the event says, "Every year, on the second Wednesday of April, we urge people around the world to put on a pink shirt and stand in solidarity with the 2SLGBTQIA+ community to continue fighting for equality and acceptance."

Accordingly, the activists who turned up to the school were impressing upon children the need to "stand up against hateful beliefs to keep the clock from turning backwards on our efforts towards establishing equality for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community."

Gay activist and Stonewall rioter Martin Boyce gave a keynote address to students on "LGBTQ liberation in the face of increased hate toward the community."

Boyce suggested to children that those at odds with the transgender and gay agendas are on the wrong side of history: "They are fighting us, but we're ready."

Boyce boasted in 2022 that LGBT activism was more organized and better funded than ever before, reported CTV News.

Students from grades 7 to 12 participated in the day's events, ate pink treats, and took in a drag show, where a female impersonator identified as "Icesis Couture" danced to Meghan Trainor's "Mother."

According to the TDSB, Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie and representatives from the Toronto Police 2SLGBTQIA+ Committee also joined in celebrating LGBT activism.

Resisting the pink shirts

High school students protested the event outside the school in concert with Save Canada, a group of young Canadians who seek to awaken other Canadian youth "to the corrupt agenda being forced upon them."

"We stand against this indoctrination, we stand against the attack on our faith," the group claims on its site. "The majority of the population kneels to the corrupt system, but not us. We kneel before God, and before Him alone."

Josh Alexander, the Catholic high school student suspended last November for expressing his religious and moral objections to an Ontario school's transsexual bathroom policy, attended the protest and handed out Bibles to students leaving the "International Day of Pink" event.

Alexander, with Save Canada, told True North’s Harrison Faulkner, "They're gonna do their best to silence anybody that voices any form of dissent to this," noting that extra to members of law enforcement speaking at the event, some officers ostensibly keeping the peace outside the school were allegedly wearing pink hats in solidarity with the LGBT cause.

One student suggested that the event was "Disgusting and pedophilic."

\u201cDespite what radical LGTBQ activists and the legacy media claim, many Canadians are very uncomfortable with drag queens dancing in front of students. This was clear today in Toronto as students protested a drag queen event.\n\n@Harry__faulkner reports.\u201d
— True North (@True North) 1681350388

"I think that there's some agenda behind this, with the LGBTQ+ community," a student protester told Faulkner. "I don't mind LGBTQ at all, but they're trying to indoctrinate children ... and I'm not cool with that at all. Kids go to school to learn English, math, science, to socialize with friends, phys-ed. Gender identity stuff shouldn't be taught in schools."

One student protester told Rebel News, "I'm sick and tired of seeing all these pride posters in our school. They're promoting it and shoving it down our throats.

Dwindling freedoms

Faulkner noted that this protest wouldn't have been possible in the western Canadian city of Calgary, where the city council recently banned protests within 100 meters of a drag queen story hour.

Canadian state media reported that the council passed the "Safe and Inclusive Access Bylaw" in March by a 10-5 vote, thereby preventing people from exercising their free speech within 100 meters of an entrance to a recreation facility or library.

Similar prohibitions may soon be headed to the province of Ontario.

TheBlaze previously reported that the Ontario New Democratic Party, a radical leftist party that serves as the official opposition in the provincial parliament, introduced legislation last week that would create anti-free-speech zones around drag shows and punish anyone caught making remarks deemed "offensive" by LGBT activists while in the vicinity.
If passed, schools such as York Mills Collegiate Institute and the surrounding property could be designated LGBT bubble zones, wherein "any homophobic, transphobic act of intimidation, threat, offensive threats, offensive remarks, protest, disturbance, and distribution of hate propaganda within the meaning of the criminal code" can be punished.

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Catholic school suspends teen for remainder of year for believing God created 2 genders, protesting transgender students using girls' bathrooms



A student has reportedly been suspended by a Catholic high school for the remainder of the school year for believing that God created two genders and protesting against transgender students using girls' bathrooms.

Since November, Josh Alexander has allegedly been suspended from St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Renfrew, Ontario. Alexander was allegedly punished by the school for organizing a protest against transgender students using girls' bathrooms. Alexander said he launched the demonstration after two girls at his school confided in him that they were uncomfortable sharing bathrooms with biological males.

Alexander, an 11th-grade student, was reportedly barred from attending St. Joseph’s Catholic High School for the remainder of the school year.

Alexander informed The Epoch Times that St. Joseph’s Catholic High School told him that his attendance at the school would be "detrimental to the physical and mental well-being" of transgender students.

Alexander said the school labeled his beliefs as "offensive" and "bullying" because there was a transgender student in his class.

Alexander insists that he has no plans to be violent in defending his ideology, and doesn't feel as though he is bullying anyone.

"Offense is obviously defined by the offended. I expressed my religious beliefs in class and it spiraled out of control," Alexander explained. "Not everybody’s going to like that. That doesn't make me a bully. It doesn't mean I'm harassing anybody. They express their beliefs and I express mine. Mine obviously don't fit the narrative."

He said, "This whole issue isn't about identity. It's about biology and morality."

Alexander told The Post Millennial, "They're using it as a technicality to say that they're not disciplining me, and it's just a form of exclusion to protect the other students."

However, Alexander is already enrolled at St. Joseph’s Catholic High School, which reportedly bars him from enrolling at any other education programs.

Alexander said, "I am unable to do any other form of education because as long as I'm enrolled in the Catholic board, I'm not allowed to take an alternative route of education. So I'm enrolled, but I'm not allowed to attend school. So right now I actually have no form of education."

Alexander stated that he plans to file a human rights complaint on the grounds of religious discrimination.

Alexander is appealing his suspension. However, his appeal is reportedly being held up because Alexander previously asked for parental independence so as not to drag his parents into this quandary.

Alexander’s lawyer James Kitchen said, "He does live with his parents and they have an excellent relationship. He seeks guidance from them and they gladly give it to him. But he runs his own life. And that’s actually by design, because that’s how his parents raised him to be."

St. Joseph’s Catholic High School principal Derek Lennox and Mark Searson, the director of education for the Renfrew County Catholic District School Board, both said they could not comment on the situation.

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