A New Brunswick mother says her petition for parental rights in education is gaining support daily and will help the provincial government to stay the course.
Faytene Grasseschi of Quispamsis, New Brunswick, launched DontDeleteParents.ca on June 27. The initiative supports revisions to Policy 713 on sexual orientation and gender identity made by Progressive Conservative Premier Blaine Higgs and Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development Bill Hogan.
The August 2020 policy by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development initially said that students should be referred to by their preferred pronouns and names. The policy allowed students to go into the bathroom according to the gender they identified with and to participate in sports according to their declared gender….