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Letter: Keep your opinion on gender out of our schools

Parents absolutely have rights in raising their own children, but what they don’t have is a right to remove ‘facts, understanding, acceptance, and progress from this country's public education system’
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Unless you rape or sexually assault someone what you do with your private parts is none of my concern.

This is virtue signalling, which is something everyone's guilty of, but I thanked and shook hands with NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Timmins-James Bay MP Charlie Angus for stopping by the Supreme Court of Canada, where a counter-demonstration made up of students, parents, workers, senior citizens, families, unions, and activists rallied before marching to oppose the 1 Million March 4 Children that took place on Parliament Hill and across this big land on Sept. 20.

Newsflash! Everyone is against child abuse except the perpetrators.

Reality! Heterosexuality is one of several natural behaviors that exist in creation and amazingly, it's not the only means of pleasure or procreation for living beings. Just because being straight is the most popular experience within our species does not make the other ways wrong or evil. It simply makes them rarer. 

Homosexuality, bisexuality and transgenderism can be found in plenty of creatures great and small on this miraculous planet, however you believe they came to be. Tragically, in this world wild beasts like lions seem to be more welcoming of transgender members of their own family than some humans.

Education is a pillar of any society's greatness and in Canada you have the freedom as a parent to review the teaching curriculum, remove your child(ren) from any class(es) you feel are not right for their growing knowledge, or homeschool your kid(s) if you choose to. 

What you don't get to demand is removing facts, understanding, acceptance, and progress from this country's public education system lest you want a stupider, crueler future for all of our children.

Seems to me it's only the wicked and the fooled who are trying to force false ideologies onto others in the 21st century.

Mark Kirkwood Callingham

Ottawa