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Is it the teachers though or the school boards? I don't think teachers get much say over the curriculum

I feel there's probably something wrong with SOGI given the big gap between support for affirmation (80%) and the curriculum (50%). If anything I would expect these numbers to be flipped. I don't see why sex ed courses can't just be optional courses available at various ages? Why do they have to be part of the core curriculum? I was always kind of mixed on them as a young teen. To be honest, it's kinda awkward being taught this stuff by someone who isn't a relative. And by the age you get to the course you already know most of it.

The problem with the Liberals is that they haven't set up a successor that would be popular. It's been 100% the Trudeau show, which isn't great for them now. I think most probably expected him to take a job at the U.N. by now, but he doesn't want to move on.

Only in Canada is ending the apartheid system considered racist. There's no reason Indigenous people can't live with the rest of society without losing their culture. 100 billion sure would build a lot of museums, libraries, and other cultural centers. Not to mention general education & mental health support for bettering their own lives

Actually I took the Angus Reid poll to be quite encouraging after reading the whole thing. That roughly 8 in 10 would support their trans kid figuring themselves out is very good progress. Of course the media picked out the biggest wedge issues and made it into a rage farm thing.

There can't be. Though views like this are far-left not mainstream left. That being said some on here spout equally ridiculous things.

Maybe that's the problem. Government policy and how school boards implement that policy could be two different things. Support for LGBT is much higher than for the curriculum, so why is that? I find it hard to believe that's purely due to misconceptions.

The interesting thing about that Angus Reid poll was that it said 80% of decided parents would support their children through transition. That's a lot higher than I would have guessed. It's also much higher than support for the LGBT curriculum at about 50%. So that does lead me to believe it's being taught in the wrong ways to some extent.

Yea from other kids, parents, and such. It's also unlikely a kid would come out at school first IMO. I get that sometimes people do staged transition but in the social media age, it's going to be everywhere or nowhere And as said, if you're actually trans, pronouns are like a bandaid. You need clothes & the hairstyle of the other gender. I could not imagine asking to be called she while showing up to school in guy clothes, lol. Are schools proposing they'd provide all that too?

I don't disagree with that. Some seem to always want to be an 'other' or 'activist' for life rather than just live life and move on. Yes the past sucks but you really have to just move on. I liken it to a sort of religion. I definitely did not score as a 'Zealous Activist' on that Angus Reid poll, lol.

I mean I am trans, if it wasn't hinted at strongly from other comments, there you have it

Endless information if you look for it out there. Even in the 90s that was the case. And I don't mean the recent trend of weird woke articles paid for god knows who. I mean medical / educational type literature. It's not like transsexuality is anything new to humanity, it's always existed. Sometimes I wonder if the viewpoint of there being three genders causes less strife. That seems to be more the norm historically, modern Western culture is an anomaly if anything.

Never was under any illusions that sex change surgery meant you could birth children. The thing is, if you're actually trans you learn these things yourself at a young age. You'll read what you need to know off the Internet. Schools are kind of a red herring in all this to be honest.

Well I don't think we should have handed him over. They'd have executed him. One we don't have the death penalty and two that doesn't really show much strength. Granted, I am pro-death penalty for crimes of mass murder beyond any doubt. But only if directly culpable

There should be laws against inciting terrorism abroad. Does our Criminal Code only apply to acts in Canada?

True, though on the flip side you don't know what parties yours might align with or not. I think on the whole PR still beats FPTP. FPTP encourages regionalism which isn't good for unity. And it gives the fringe representation instead of pushing them outside of democracy. As distasteful as a fascist party might be with 5-10% of the vote, that's how the votes go. The more parties the more 'democratic' the system is, as they have too much power as is. An alternative might be to require parties to re-vote on their leader every year, and have it be binding.

Although one can debate that the left parties should just unite in Canada. Whether parties merge before an election or after by coalition, is it so different?

Nothing will change imo it's all talk. Like lowering home prices or gas or cell and Internet rates

Regional parties would be less popular and probably die off. The BQ gets an outsized number of seats compared to popular vote. As did the Reform.

Yea perhaps androgynous then. I mean we had already had terms for these things, not sure how non-binary came about.

Yea, apparently it's that they don't feel they have traits of either gender. Agendered would be a more accurate term, personally not a huge fan of non-binary. It's wordy and implies a lot of weird things (like that there are people that exist on some other spectrum?).

Sex is recorded at birth on your birth certificate, not your gender. Though yes, I've said elsewhere our system is complete nonsense. You have to get your sex retroactively (and incorrectly) re-written on your birth certificate in order to get gender markers on everything else changed. It's because sex/gender get conflated into one thing, when they aren't the same thing.

I'll be surprised if they even run in the next election. As in field candidates in all ridings, there isn't that much time. Guess we'll see. Canada already has a lot more parties than most countries that use FPTP. If anything I'd expect some consolidation.

Though Starbucks is not the educational system. I was being serious though, are schools actually teaching that gender is just a choice? The right wing likes to claim this but I haven't seen it stated in educational materials. That would be the proof or 'actual data'. Non-binary people do exist and should be validated too. But yea, you'd be going for a very androgynous look if you really were. Sounds like another example of someone who probably isn't really LGBT just trying to be a woke ally. They're a very small minority though, and I'd say the majority of people who 'claim' to be non-binary are not really at all.

I meant more in reference to minors not having rights. Child labor, arranged marriage and such. Yes a lot of it does come from the helicopter parent thing. What are the societal factors leading to parents wanting to protect their kids from any harm possible? I'd argue that its parents on all sides of the political spectrum these days.