What’s the benefit of this? I don’t understand how that benefits parents or children. Who cares if the kid is a boy or a girl? What if their parents are abusive? School is part of where identity develops, to rob kids of that seems messed up
It's not about the parents or the children. There is a right wing media apparatus doing it's best to rile it's viewers up over trans issues. Right wing parties can benefit from a lot of media reinforcement by making gestures towards those issues which those viewers, which happen to overlap with their base basically 100%, are being riled up about.
I'm so tired of these right wing culture war bullshit. They can suck on the bottom of a shoe.
There is no benefit from this, other than buying votes from right-wing loonies.
Realistically, this is going to kill a lot of queer kids. There will be an age gap between the trans youth over 16 today, and the ones that come up after this is repealed -- Not because they were somehow "converted" but simply because a lot of them won't live to adulthood because the prospect of living through their teens in the wrong skin, with the wrong name, and wearing the wrong clothes is that torturous. This will kill kids.
It is a program of genocide. Not necessarily specifically coordinated in this case, but mostly Christian nationalist groups, mostly based in the USA, have been deliberately spreading it for years.
Saskabush turning into a southern state and adopting Trumpian politics was not on my 2023 bingo card.
Scott Moe just proving yet again how utterly debased he truly is.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Education Minister Dustin Duncan said at a news conference Tuesday that there will be provisions in place for children wanting to change their name and pronouns who believe they are at risk of harm if their parents find out.
The default position needs to be, 'How do we provide that student with the support so that they are comfortable with their parents knowing a decision they want to make?'"
The policy shift comes after an incident at Lumsden High School in June, where a Grade 9 student picked up graphic sex ed material left behind by Planned Parenthood after members of the organization presented to their health class.
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) swiftly condemned the policy shift, saying it made it more dangerous to be a LGBTQ student in the province.
Policy changes were teased earlier this month by Premier Scott Moe in a post-byelection press conference.
"A majority of voters in Lumsden-Morse still believe that it is the Saskatchewan Party that is the best option to address these concerns and we intend to do just that," Moe said on Aug. 11.
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