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Carol Kroeger's avatar

Thank you for writing this- any chance if getting it published as an Op Ed to reach a wider audience?

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Stuart Chambers, PhD's avatar

I simply do not trust the premiers on this one. It just sounds like another culture war wedge tactic, weaponizing the trans issue for political gain.

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Ian Brooks's avatar

Thank you. Thinking as a parent/grandparent the mentioned policies seem a horrible “self own”.

Please consider the op-ed idea.

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Gavin Moodie's avatar

In Australia there was a similar moral panic about a couple of decades ago over whether physicians had to get parents' approval to prescribe contraceptive pills requested by their daughters under 18.

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dave plant's avatar

"When we remove the ability of educators to exercise good judgment, all we’re left with is less good judgment"

Wow, yes.

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Dan Lacelle's avatar

It now seems the duty of schools and teachers to address the school population with a version of Florida's DeSantis don't say gay... don't say trans... or anything to do with pronouns, for their own safety they must stay in the trans closet until legal age, Canadian Republicans are a terrible bunch.

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