Western Standard - June 05, 2022


Regina school kids getting lesson in transgenderism — without parents' consent


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342

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A school in the Regina Public School System sent a message to parents about the upcoming Pride Month activities at their Kindergarten to Grade 8 school. June is Pride Month and the public school has lots of activities to celebrate diversity and become a gender friendly school.

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00:00:00.000 A school in the Regina Public School System sent a message to parents about the upcoming
00:00:04.560 Celebrating Pride Month activities at their Kindergarten to Grade 8 school with some kids
00:00:11.020 in for some eye-opening experience. June is Pride Month and the public school has lots of activities
00:00:17.120 to celebrate diversity and become a gender-friendly school and stomping out homophobia and transphobia
00:00:23.820 in public schools. For grades 5 to 8, the students have Kat Haynes as a special transgender guest
00:00:32.220 speaker. Haynes works with Justice Trans and is a founding member of the Saskatchewan Trans Health
00:00:37.640 Coalition. She describes herself as genderqueer trans girl dyke academic artist weirdo and there's 1.00
00:00:45.260 an art video she made describing herself if you click on the story link. Haynes received a master's
00:00:50.600 in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Regina after successfully defending her
00:00:56.400 thesis on Trans Misogyny, the intersectional violence and marginalization faced by trans women
00:01:02.960 and non-binary people assigned male at birth. Other activities at the school include doing
00:01:08.940 sidewalk art to brighten up our school grounds and share messages of inclusivity. During the
00:01:15.380 morning announcements the school will have daily candy contests. Members of the school's
00:01:20.240 A Straight Alliance will be visiting primary classrooms to read picture books to younger
00:01:24.700 students. Some of the suggested transgender picture books include Jacob's New Dress, William's
00:01:31.600 Doll, Sparkle Boy, and Jack . On June 10th it is Color Block Day where all the students
00:01:39.820 in each class wear the same color from the rainbow. According to the school principal, the school
00:01:44.840 will not be sending out parental consent forms to parents for any of the activities, including
00:01:50.880 Haynes transgender talk. A source within the school board said that this school is one of
00:01:55.780 the most pro-trans schools in the Regina public school system. Back in 2021, the Regina public
00:02:03.280 school board voted in favor of diversity training for every person working for the school district.
00:02:10.080 The Catholic school next to the public school has no activities planned. I'm Chris Olkorn
00:02:16.320 for the Western Standard.