Muslim and Christian Parents in Ottawa Protest LGBT Policies in Schools
“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.”
In just the last week, we’ve seen parents protesting LGBT policies in schools in North Hollywood and Glendale, California. Now something similar has happened in Ottawa, Canada.
The last straw for these parents was finding out that the schools were adopting a policy to refer to all students as they and them.
The Blaze reported:
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.”
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.”
The Post Millennial has details on the protest:
BREAKING: Children stomp on Pride flags as Christian and Muslim parents protest LGBTQ indoctrination in Ottawa schools
On Friday, hundreds of concerned parents, children, and allies gathered in Ottawa to take part in the Education over Indoctrination protest against LGBTQ content in schools.
During the protest, kids from Muslim families fed up with gender indoctrination in their classrooms stomped on Pride flags, garnering cheers from the crowd.
Footage from the protest captured the moment the children, seemingly at the direction of their parents, stood atop a selection of small Pride flags scattered on the ground and began stomping.
The crowd cheered them on, with some older members coming over to shake their hands and voice their approval.
Many of the Muslims in the crowd got into it with far-left counterprotestors, chanting “Leave the kids alone!”
Members of the faith have joined their Christian counterparts in the fight against modern gender ideology as of late, a fact that has confused many progressives.
You can see some clips below:
BREAKING: 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. pic.twitter.com/ZEL24gE2ry
— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) June 9, 2023
Christians and Muslims parents join forces on the streets of Ottawa to fight against gender ideology. Kids stomp on pride flags. Chants of “Leave our kids alone.”
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 9, 2023
Muslim families chant “leave the kids alone!” at far-left trans rights activists in Ottawa
Footage by @BethBaisch pic.twitter.com/PFClPe6ESf
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 9, 2023
The left has pushed too far, too fast and people are sick of it.
Parents are drawing a line at their kids.
Featured image via Twitter video.
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How long will it take for Trudeau to send in the Gestapo to round them up? It could be his version of J6.
Tolerance is intolerable. For Trudeau et al, it is a binary choice: celebration or rejection.
“. . . protesters took to the streets, demanding that the leftist administrators ‘leave the kids alone'”
That is the last thing the left ever do. You will participate whether you like it or not. The left never sleeps. They will never, ever leave us alone.
“It is the common fate of the indolent [*] to see their rights become a prey to the active [**]. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude [***] is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.” John Philpot Curran (1750- 1817).
In other words, you better fight-&-defend or all those hard-earned freedoms will be taken without a moment’s notice. And as recent evidence, look at how governors and their staffs acted during the COVID-19 lockdown
* The indolent – those who may complain (Keyboard Cowboys) but yet won’t take action even when informed that they can counter the left
** The active – experience has taught that the left has a never-ending list of stupid, freedom-depriving ideas; the left will NEVER leave us alone. Green New Deal; elimination of 1st Am., 2d Am., mail-in voting, shut-down orders, and on and on
*** Servitude – comes in a variety of forms, from detention (jail, stay-at-home orders) to economic deprivation via regulations (which always result in bigger government, higher prices for goods/services and greater unemployment) to increased taxation
NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, vote Democrat. NEVER.
Since islam has entered the issue…. hum…. Justina has more than a few problems now. Yep… just freeze the bank accounts on Muslims and see what happens.
“How long will it take for Trudeau to send in the Gestapo to round them up?”
But… but… exactly who would he round up?
“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.”
I’ve lost track of progress on this topic, but didn’t Canada successfully make it illegal to willfully “misgender” people?
Now a government agency is willfully forcing incorrect pronouns on kids?
This would be a constitutional crisis, if Canada had a constitution with any gravitas at all.
Islam, divorced from authoritarian ideology, is a viable religion (i.e. behavioral protocol), which in concert with Christianity may succeed to mitigate the progressive liberal (i.e. monotonically divergent) path and grade.
It’s the “ideology” that gives islam the “muscle”. Christians are still infidels.
2SLGBTQ+…..Canada is way down the rabbit hole with these designations. Good to see decent people fight back. The dapper and fragrant J. Trudeau will take to his fainting couch.
2S?
Probably “two spirit.”
What, only two? Where are my clutching pearls? To the fainting couch!
Presumably 2S at the top because to many Canadian wokesters, Native Americans are the top victims by race.
Student deferment.
Two protected groups. Will the Muslims be charged with hate crimes now?
Which ranks higher on the intersectionality scale – “queer” or “muslim”?
Muslim. No question about it. They will you blow up. Backed up by the “holy” texts, tenet and practices. 1400 years of practice.
“Higher?”…. With Islam, queer is 6 feet under after a failed attempt to fly.
There is a pairing one doesn’t see too often
Leave the kids alone? How are they supposed to do that? Schools necessarily are given a great deal of responsibility for and authority over children in their care. It can’t be any other way.
These administrators must be fired and replaced by someone who isn’t mentally ill. You heard the guy, it’s his ‘fundamental human right’ to diddle the kiddies. YOUR kids. Get him out of there. Which will be tricky because they voted for all this stuff. And where will they get replacements? Recent graduates of Woke State?
We have really gotten ourselves into a mess. Ceding education to Marxists out to destroy society was maybe not the best idea? I don’t know…
More Canadian domestic terrorists? I bet they are part of the same truckers’ group that caused so much trouble! What has gotten into those Canucks??
encouraging to see the kids stomping on the “pride” flags–hope the trans/groomers/pedos are paying attention–will be entertaining to see who prevails here–the muslims with clearly zero tolerance for lgbt blah, blah, blah or the trans loons with zero tolerance for the straight world’s resistance–don’t know for certain but appears the trans loons are way outnumbered by the muslims ( let alone by ordinary americans )
Pride and prejudice (PP) before the fall.
Best wishes, neighbors.
The whole LGBTQ in the schools thing is to groom future human playthings for our perv elite.
As for the language games, most Indo-European and Semitic languages have the masculine gender doing a double duty for ambiguous or neuter as well. It’s why those of us over a certain age remember lady teachers teaching us pronoun agreement: “If someone has trouble, help him; if people have trouble, help them.” The peevish, provincial feminists and genderbenders are making our language more awkward, prolix, and incoherent.
In any case, as a user of Chinese, which didn’t gender pronouns until 1919 (and then, only in written form), I can assure you that genderless nouns and pronouns do not create a sexually egalitarian culture.
Speaking as a teacher, I gnash my teeth at the triumph of organized ignorance and folly.
How about using the pronoun “it” for all teachers, school administrators, and government officials? But for Trudeau, use “_that_”.
If you use the pronoun “they” for an individual, then do you use a singular or a plural verb? Logic keeps getting in the way of being woke.
John goes to the store.
They buys apples. (Singular verb, agrees with just one subject, John.)
They buy apples. (Plural verb, agrees with plural “They.”)