21st June 2023

From an article in the Epoch Times

Ottawa School Board Suggests Teachers Use They/Them Pronouns for All Students Starting in September

By Tara MacIsaac

June 8, 2023 Updated: June 14, 2023

(Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) spokesperson Darcy Knoll)

“As a learning organization, we work to teach and promote kindness and combat hate and discrimination,” Knoll said.

“When providing learning experiences, we do not offer proactive exemptions or excuse students from the learning on the basis that we may be highlighting a particular group of people defined by their race, religion/creed, ability, sexual orientation or gender identity. This would result in sending a message that a group of people in our community is not valued and do not belong.”

The email sent to staff says opting out should not be an option. 2SLGBTQ+ learnings should be offered to the school community without the option to opt out. It is essential to understand that human rights are not open to debate or selective participation,” it said.

Clearly Knoll has not been paying attention to what is happening elsewhere in Ottawa as this Federal government has completely abandoned any pretense that huma rights are to be valued or upheld.

How we have changed from being a feminist aware country – not a bad thing – to one controlled by “they/them”, “she/her”, “he/him” woke speech or vocabulary is beyond me, but really it is part of the insanity that is gripping the entire western world.

Quite suddenly men can compete in women’s sports and use their change rooms or bathrooms and I wonder if this is some sort of backlash due to masculinity being so challenged by “masculine” women.  I am way beyond athletic endeavours now but on the odd occasion when I did compete with mixed teams (field hockey being an example) I stayed well away from the flailing sticks of the opposing women out of self-preservation.

I have no objection to men and women competing in such mixed team games, but to have men deliberately competing in women’s events because they are not good enough to compete against other men seems really childish to me.  I suppose that is reason enough for the hysterical submission to these ideas that there are more than two sexes. 

Is this also to prepare us for the fact that a robot may be in one form or another (ie, male or female) but is actually neither as it is just a machine.   

If the people pushing this crazy (to me anyway) multi gender concept would spend even a portion of their time keeping their MP up to date on what is really happening in their constituency instead of relying on their party leader to tell them how, when and what to vote, then perhaps their “misguided” passion would have some use.

There is such a frantic nature to this debate – if it can even be called as such – that I have to wonder what is being hidden. We have real problems amongst the western leaders and the global realignments (about time too) and wars, famine, drought, and floods and here we are stuck in this absurdity of wanting to imitate frogs!

I am certainly not homophobic  though I may be somewhat old fashioned, but I believe that everyone has the right to believe what they want be it in religion or some other line, but when that belief leads to mass hysteria then I get agitated on behalf of those who have been deceived. Paradoxically it is their right to be deceived I suppose but that does not alleviate my concern.

Ah me, what’s next world?

Jeremy