16-year-old Boy Suspended for Defending Girls' Privacy Against Pro-LGBT Catholic School
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What if a Catholic high school was doing the whole transgender bathroom thing, and the girls in that high school wanted privacy in their own bathrooms? What if there was one heroic young man willing to speak up for his friends, who were young women, and ask the principal to give them their own privacy. What if that young man was a Christian? And what if he was a non-Christian Christian?
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What if I told you that there was a Catholic school that was doing the whole transgender bathroom thing,
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and the girls in that high school were pretty upset and wanted protection in their own bathrooms.
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They wanted to be able to use their bathrooms in peace without boys being in the bathroom.
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What if in the school there was one heroic young man willing to speak up for his friends who were young women
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and go to the principal on their behalf and ask him,
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can we please give these young ladies their own privacy?
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But what if the young man said, you know what, we're going to do a walkout to insist on this
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And what if he were suspended by the principal for doing that?
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Imagine if he were a Christian, a non-Catholic Christian, and this happened in a Catholic school.
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What an insanely upside-down example that would give him of what the Catholic faith is.
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And we have with us the young man who is now suspended from this Catholic school.
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Let's begin as we always do with the sign of the cross.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
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Okay, Josh, first of all, I want to say, on behalf of all Catholics, thank you for what
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What you did was a real show of support for decency in our world and for the Christian faith.
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And the fact that you were mistreated by this principal, that's unconscionable.
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So, please tell us your story, if you would, from the beginning.
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Okay, so previously, I was enrolled in the public board, and I had been known for doing
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And we got a little bit of media coverage from that, and I got suspended maybe three or
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And after that, after that year, I decided to switch to the Catholic board.
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So, this September, I enrolled, and I started going there.
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And maybe after a month or so, maybe a month and a half, it started to become pretty evident
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to me that there were a lot of confused kids in that school.
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And unfortunately, they had been taking certain alternative routes.
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And it was really starting to pose a bit of an issue with the privacy thing.
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And a couple female students addressed me about this, and they complained and said that there's
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And I took it to the administrators after having quite a heated class debate about it, where
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both staff and students were kind of shouting me down.
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Like, I was called a racist for believing there should be separate washrooms.
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And my teacher decided to educate the class and tell them that there's multiple genders.
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And they told me that my concerns wouldn't be legitimized until I brought in a female student
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And so, I actually found a female student that was
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brave enough to speak out, even under all that pressure.
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However, they still refused to take any action.
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And when I went in and inquired for the second time, I'm like, okay, what's going on?
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And they said they didn't want to continue this discussion with me.
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So, I decided to edit a video, put out a poster, and stage another walkout.
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And hopefully get some attention, get it out to the parents, and see what happens.
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But they ended up suspending me while I was at home.
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And so, I hadn't been at school for a few days.
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I got suspended for supposedly violating the safe schools policy through my social media.
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And I didn't end up being able to go to the school to encourage kids to walk out.
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And while I was gone, they told them all they wouldn't have transportation home.
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In some instances, they informed the students it would ruin their local reputations if they were seen with me at the walkout.
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And they kind of just used their fear-mongering to disengage the students.
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And at the end, when the walkout actually happened, maybe only 10 to 15 students ended up walking out.
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Before then, the numbers were looking drastically higher.
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I had three pride groups that showed up at my school.
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There was even a union bussing people up from Ottawa.
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And they posted on social media calling, I have an organization called Safe Canada.
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And they called it, they're labeled a terror group.
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And Freedom Fighters Canada, who's run by Jeremy O'Sullivan.
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And there's another, I believe it was inside the Ottawa Valley, was the news network that labeled them just anti-trans hate groups.
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And I don't know, there's talk of me being expelled.
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I know the police are also involved in the school's investigation towards my hate-based comments.
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You've already been doing walkouts for the Freedom Convoy, which is just incredible.
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So, I don't even, I don't know where I'd start.
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I guess I was homeschooled up until grade seven.
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So, that certainly helped me stay away from the woke indoctrination of our education system.
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But, just during the entire pandemic, as I call it, there was a, there seemed to be a lot of low morale amongst the students.
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And, like, you could see it in the suicide rates.
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You could, like, it wasn't, it wasn't just a distance that you could actually experience it firsthand.
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So, that kind of, kind of sparked my civil disobedience there and encouraged students to walk out.
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And, ever since then, we've got media attention.
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I've given some speeches and been invited to a lot of different events and all that.
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So, when this issue came up, it kind of was just, like, it was, that's what I went to.
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There have been people already advocating on your behalf.
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But, this is a letter from, it's the chairperson of the Catholic School Board.
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In fact, the chairperson of the Renfrew County Catholic District School Board.
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He quotes, as backing him up, the Ontario Human Rights Commission.
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In other words, that first part, which talked about restricting based on sex, is all thrown out the window.
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Because, this absolute nonsense of saying, a person lives their own trans identity, whatever.
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We've seen so many examples of men abusing women in these locker rooms, in bathrooms.
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And, for the excuse, they call themselves trans men.
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You've been raised, thanks be to God, obviously in a Christian home and homeschooled to keep you, as you said, out of the woke agenda from being indoctrinated in it.
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What was motivating you to take it on to go to the principal for these young women?
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Just as a young man, I mean, it felt like my duty to do it.
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I knew I could do something about it from my past experiences and decided to give it a shot.
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I wouldn't personally be able to live knowing I could have done something and didn't do it.
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So, you've been out touring, and obviously your story is, it's so emblematic of the hell that we're living through right now as a culture.
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And the depths to which the Catholic Church and many Christian churches have plummeted in this regard.
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There's all sorts of indoctrination, if you will, into the woke agenda by all sorts of church leaders.
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And it's not only on the LGBT agenda, it's also on the plandemic, as you mentioned earlier.
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Well, just recently, like you said, I've been touring.
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I've gone to a lot of churches and all that, and just trying to raise awareness to it, make sure that everybody knows what's going on.
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And I've got a bunch of ideas in the back of my head.
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We're starting to kind of hammer out the details, but we're looking to take more action.
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I mean, it never was supposed to end with one school walkout where I get suspended, and that's game over.
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And the churches need to know, the parents need to know, we kind of need to, in my opinion, stop fighting and bickering over a denomination or whatever,
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and just kind of unite as the universal church and start taking action against the evil in our world that's actually affecting our youth right now, the entire next generation.
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We aren't quite ready to announce them yet, but we're just starting to network now and get ready for whatever's going on next.
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And what's the name of your group called, and where can people find out about it?
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And we've got a store there, and there's some updates posted.
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But, honestly, the best way to keep posted is just look at my personal social media.
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So, you can find me on Facebook under my name or go to my Instagram.
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And, yeah, there's quite a few places you can find us.
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What would be your message to young people who are facing challenges?
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Both challenges in terms of if they try to push back, they're suspended or threatened with suspension.
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They're given low grades in classes where they write the truth.
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So, they usually just, well, I'll just write whatever the teacher wants.
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And many young women are sort of – they feel totally uncomfortable, and they have to make do to try and do whatever they can to avoid the situation of using their own locker rooms or bathrooms.
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But, in my experience, I've gone to two different high schools, and it usually takes one voice to speak out against something before you get that conversation going.
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And, to put it in simple terms, if my voice didn't count, I would still be at school right now.
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Like, it's – you will face backlash, but you're not alone.
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And, like, the amount of support I've reached, like, from across the country, it's been incredible.
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It's been the most encouraging week of my life.
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Like, the amount of churches I've been to, the communities I've seen.
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And the more of us that do it, the faster we'll accomplish what we need to get done.
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We've got a petition to support you that we're going to be delivering.
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And we really hope that that gains a lot of signatures.
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But we're also going to get people to call into the school.
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Even if they don't change their minds, they'll at least be able to hear that there's a great number of Canadians who support you,
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who support sanity in our schools, and support young ladies in their right to privacies in their own bathrooms.
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Don't stop as long as you've got the Lord on your side.
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Like, we have to remember we're pilgrims on this earth.
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So, just keep up the good fight and make sure you have God in your corner and you'll be all right.
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We're going to flash up on the screen right now both the number for the principal at the school
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and, again, Bob Schrader, the chairman of the Catholic School Board in Renfrew, his number as well.
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