Posted on 03/18/2016 12:17:50 PM PDT by wagglebee
TORONTO, March 18, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) -- In the name of “dismantl[ing] systemic transphobia” a Toronto public school teacher has announced he is now using all-gender cabins for students on school camping trips, stating explicitly that the school did not obtain parental permission for the move.
Stating that the province’s new 2012 transgender law (Bill 33) made “schools legally responsible for eliminating barriers to inclusion based on gender identity and gender expression,” the teacher stated that parents simply had to accept the new “cultural mind shift.”
“Here, adults had to grapple with a new legal reality; this meeting was not a request for permission but rather an opportunity to give input into how to make all-gender cabins a reality,” wrote David Stocker, a member of the Elementary Teachers of Toronto, in the Spring edition of ETFO Voice.
Students, led by the transgender activist teacher, voted that “wearing underwear around the cabin was acceptable” for both boys and girls and those who identify as a “boy” or “girl.”
Stocker said that all-gender cabins was simply the next step after installing all-gender washrooms in Toronto’s City View Alternative School to making schools “trans-Inclusive spaces.”
“[H]uman rights activism…is at the core of the work we do at City View,” he wrote.
But Tanya Granic Allen, president of Parents as First Educators (PAFE), told LifeSiteNews that all-gender cabins are simply “another example of government bureaucrats infringing on the rights of parents.”
“These harmful experimental programs are being implemented, and only then are parents consulted. School officials are implementing programs without careful consideration of consequences. Putting 12 and 13 year old boys and girls together exposes children to potential dangerous circumstances,” she said.
“Parents should be alarmed that their rights are being usurped and their children are being used as subjects in a social experiment,” she added.
Stocker trivialized concerns that parents might raise about the “possibility of sexual activity” in the all-gender cabins, stating that students had been taught to “sensitively articulate both the policies in place prohibiting the behavior and the underlying heteronormativity of the concern.”
As many as 50 percent of the student body volunteered to spend nights in the all-gender cabins.
Ottawa parent and Catholic activist James Doak called the all-gender cabins a manifestation of the “insanity” that arises when truth is rejected.
“This is simply another indication of the insanity that results when the biological truth of human beings as male and female has been jettisoned for an absurd ideology that says individuals can choose what sex they belong to,” he told LifeSiteNews.
“Parents who are concerned about the mental and moral well-being of their children should be deeply troubled about how pervasive this gender ideology has become. We now see one of its promoters actually boasting about how obtaining parental permission to involve school children in what amounts to ’gender-identity’ indoctrination was intentionally ignored. The ideology is essentially stripping children away from their parents.”
Doak said that gender ideology ultimately harms children who, constantly bombarded with lies and propaganda about human sexuality, will eventually become incapable of authentically living out a true masculinity or femininity.
“Parents need to put their foot down and say, ‘Enough is enough. Let girls be girls and boys be boys,’” he said.
This might be the single worst excuse I've ever heard.
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This is several different kinds of stupid.
Must be great to be a teen-aged boy in Canada right now...
What could possible go wrong?!
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This would be laughable if it weren’t for the fact that it is some kind of insanity.
“stating explicitly that the school did not obtain parental permission for the move”
Fine, then when the first sexual assault happens, the school will be stuck with full liability.
Dear Mr. Stocker (or, if you prefer, Ms. Stocker):
Eventually you will meet your Creator. You will NOT find it a joyous occasion! For YOUR sake, as well as the kids that non-thinking parents allow under your charge, please change before it is too late for them AND YOU!
Sincerely,
A Formerly Proud Canadian
PS: Maranatha!
I’m beginning to wonder if there might be some kind of mass insanity taking place.
I would argue that the gender might be undecided at the specific school in question. And if known, the sexual proclivities might not be as you might expect.
Unstated is what happens between a transvestite and a girl if she changes he mind mid tryst?
According to our 42nd just “put some ice on it”.
For thousands of years people have understood without explanation EXACTLY what will happen when teenage boys and girls get naked around each other. Even those without any morals who were fine with the consequences didn't deny the inevitable.
I believe that the Great Restrainer is loosening his grip.
I think that translates to: The kids won’t have sex because we told them not to.
Yeah, that ~always~ works.
It’s so bizarre. There have always been individuals who made foolish decisions, but for states and institutions to put this kind of nuttiness into place is beyond foolish.
Culture dictated by government? The Soviets did that they had to massacre millions to impose it and the damage will take a few more generations to heal.
2 Corinthians 4:4.
What could possibly go wrong?
Or not, I assume. Do parents have the option of excluding their children from all school trips or is that now mandatory, too?
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