WINDSOR, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — Windsor parents told elected officials to “leave our kids alone” at a protest against LGBT ideology in the classroom.
On July 10, pro-family protesters clashed with LGBT activists as residents protested the Greater Essex County District School Board’s (GECDSB) controversial gender policy and decision to ban the public from board meetings.
“Stop brainwashing,” over 150 protesters chanted outside the locked doors of NDP MPP Lisa Gretzky’s office, with signs reading, “Leave our kids alone.”
Under the GECDSB policy, parents are not to be informed if their child changes genders at school. As parents voiced outrage over the policy, the GECDSB decided to temporarily ban the public from attending board of trustees meetings in June.
Jack Fonseca of Campaign Life Coalition told LifeSiteNews, “The school board resorting to keep secrets from parents about their own children, and banning parents from public meetings, is all the proof you need that the Trustees and Administration are doing something immoral.”
“In what other situations do adults tell children to keep secrets from their own parents and devise strategies to keep mothers and fathers ignorant about what their children are involved in?” he questioned.
“Pedophiles do it. Groomers do it,” Fonseca continued. “Now, we have a group of adults at the GECDSB desperately trying to hide their sexual conversations with children, which includes secret sexual transitions directed by teachers.”
The protest, organized by pro-family organization Parents for Parent’s Rights, was held outside Gretzky’s office as the MPP ignored requests from the group’s co-founder Elton Robinson to discuss his concerns.
“She is my MPP,” Robinson told the Windsor Star. “There is a centre to all of this, but if you don’t talk with people, you’re never going to find that centre.”
While Gretzky refused to talk to parents, she told the Star, “I’m proud to be part of an official opposition that is working to protect and advance queer and trans rights in Ontario,” she said.
Fonseca condemned Gretzky “for defending this violation of parental rights and sexual grooming of children.”
“As a lawmaker, she ought to be ashamed of applauding the suspension of democracy at the school board, in terms of the GECDSB’s ban on parents attending their public meetings,” he declared.
“Now that parents in the Windsor area are mobilized, they need to remain mobilized, continue protesting, and leverage this movement into the next provincial and school board elections to remove Gretzky and the trustees from office,” Fonseca said.
School officials have become increasingly intolerant of parents and students who oppose LGBT ideology as protests sweep across the country.
Osgoode Professional Development of York University recently announced their fall 2023 “human rights” programs for trustees, directors, and senior school board leaders will include a session on combating “Hate Activity in School Boards.”
In June, Toronto Catholic teacher Paolo De Buono revealed that he told his eighth-grade students they are not allowed to say there are two genders, as part of his prevention of “racism, homophobia, and transphobia” in the classroom.
Additionally, a Saskatchewan principal called in police to question students who defied the narrative by making a public statement of being “straight and proud.”
A recently leaked audio recording exposing a Canadian teacher lambasting her Muslim students for missing school to protest “pride” sparked backlash across social media. Many were outraged that the teacher implied that students cannot withhold support for gay “pride” and remain “Canadian.”
On June 1, thousands of students across Canada stayed home to protest the promotion of “Pride Month” in the public education system, with one school said to have 75% of its students missing.
In early June, pro-family Canadians clashed with Antifa and pro-LGBT activists at a protest in Ottawa, resulting in police arresting five people, including one pro-LGBT counter-protester who was caught on film punching an elderly man.
Video footage from the event showing Muslim children stomping on “pride” flags has since gone viral on social media.
In Calgary, hundreds of Christian and Muslim parents gathered last week to protest LGBT propaganda in schools.
Similarly, high school students from schools in Quebec and Ontario have torn down “Pride” flags amid cheers from their fellow students.
In late June, Toronto-area students protested the same month outside a high school that reportedly suspended students for stating there are only two genders.
Ottawa Longfields-Davidson High School students organized a walkout despite opposition from the school’s administration.