(LifeSiteNews) — Former Canadian Catholic school trustee Monique LaGrange, who was forced out of her position because she opposed extreme gender ideology and refused to undergo LGBT “sensitivity” training, will be taking her former school board to court to fight her removal.
On Wednesday, the Democracy Fund (TDF) noted in a press release that it is partnering with Alberta-based attorney James Kitchen and “taking the Board of Trustees of the Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools to court over its expulsion of former trustee Monique LaGrange, who was democratically elected to the board in 2021.”
“On December 18, 2023, Kitchen issued two applications for judicial review in the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta,” noted the TDF.
The applications in question will argue that the RDCRS’s decision to both muzzle LaGrange and then forcibly expel her “lacked fairness and contained a number of legal errors, including misinterpretation of the board’s policies.”
“They further argue that the sanctions were invalid, inappropriate or disproportionate,” the group wrote.
Last month, the Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools (RDCRS) board of directors voted 3-1 to disqualify Trustee LaGrange after she compared the LGBT agenda targeting kids to that of “brainwashing” Nazi propaganda. As a result of being voted out, LaGrange later resigned from her position.
LaGrange’s lawyer, Kitchen, at the time told LifeSiteNews that the RDCRS voted to kick her out “pursuant to section 87 of the Education Act (disqualification).”
The former school board trustee initially came under fire in September 2023 when she posted an image showing kids in Nazi Germany waving swastika flags during a parade to social media, with the bottom of the post showing an image of kids waving LGBT “Pride” flags along with the text: “Brainwashing is brainwashing.”
After her post went viral, calls for her to step down grew from leftist Alberta politicians and others. This culminated in her removal as director of the Alberta Catholic School Trustees’ Association (ACSTA).
On September 26, the RDCS passed a motion to mandate that LaGrange undergo “LGBTQ+” and holocaust “sensitivity” training for her social media post.
LaGrange, however, refused to apologize for the meme pr undergo “sensitivity” training.
In speaking to the Western Standard, LaGrange stated, “I was elected to stand up and protect our children, and that is what I am doing.”
Canadians don’t favor the transgender ideology
There has been growing opposition in Canada to the teaching of radical transgender ideology in schools, which not only impacts children but also those in education who voice their opposition to such teaching.
In recent months, many concerned Canadians have protested LGBT indoctrination in the nation’s schools. In September, thousands from coast to coast participated in the Million Person March.
Extreme leftists trying to push the LGBT agenda in the classrooms has led to the conservative-led governments of Saskatchewan and New Brunswick implementing parental consent policies into law.
Saskatchewan, under Premier Scott Moe, recently passed a new policy protecting the rights of parents to be informed if their child requests to be recognized as another gender at school.
Moe followed the example of New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs, who was condemned earlier this year by LGBT activists for reviewing the province’s “gender identity” policy that allowed schools to hide students’ “transgender” status from parents.
Under the new policy, teachers need parental consent to use different names or pronouns for students younger than 16.
At its AGM, members of the ruling United Conservative Party (UCP) of Alberta under leader and Premier Danielle Smith, passed a host of resolutions calling for parental rights to be protected.
Smith told 3,800 UCP members that she unequivocally defends parental rights, saying society depends on “strong and nurturing families” and parents are the “primary caregivers and educators” of their children.
Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre recently blasted what he called “radical gender ideology” targeting kids in public schools.
While LGBT activists have gone after the likes of Higgs and Moe for their slight pushback against gender ideology, a Leger poll has shown that Canadians in general favor parental rights in education, especially regarding ideological material being shared with children.