{"id":181459,"date":"2023-09-21T16:05:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T20:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=181459"},"modified":"2023-09-25T15:21:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T19:21:33","slug":"anti-sogi-education-protestors-face-off-with-hundreds-of-supporters-of-queer-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/anti-sogi-education-protestors-face-off-with-hundreds-of-supporters-of-queer-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-SOGI education protestors face off with hundreds of supporters of queer community"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor's Note: This story was updated after original publication to include more context about the 1 Million March 4 Children.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hundreds of protestors and counter-protestors gathered outside McGill\u2019s Roddick Gates over inclusive education Wednesday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n

The result was a raucous standoff lasting until early afternoon, with the two groups separated by Montreal police.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s protest was one of many taking place across the country under the banner of the \u201c1 Million March 4 Children,\u201d a campaign seeking to remove discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity from school curricula.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Drag queen Uma Gahd was there to lend support to queer and, especially, trans people, who have become a \"culture war\" issue in recent years.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m old enough to remember a time when 'trans' wasn\u2019t even a word that most people knew,\" Uma Gahd said. \"And now we\u2019ve come so far, I can\u2019t let us go backwards.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Burlesque performer Bebe-elle echoed that, saying, \u201cif I have to stand here every day in protest against homophobes, in protest for trans lives, I\u2019ll do that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Protestors played the Canadian anthem and held coordinated signs with slogans like \u201csay no to gender indoctrination\u201d and \u201cI belong to my parents.\u201d <\/span>A dominant theme was that of \"parents\u2019 rights,\"<\/a> which protestors say trump those of schools to teach gender and sexuality inclusivity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because of the contentious nature of the protests, many of the people there asked to remain anonymous when speaking with CKUT.<\/span><\/p>\n

One protestor, who asked to remain anonymous, suggested a degree of tolerance for what people do in private: \u201cThey have to accept us, and we have to accept them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But she said teaching acceptance was a bridge too far: \u201cThey cannot come and impose messages and (a) way of thinking.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Police say the protests were finished by 2:15 p.m., with no arrests.<\/span><\/p>\n

With files from Wendy Zhao.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Editor’s Note: This story was updated after original publication to include more context about the 1 Million March 4 Children. Hundreds of protestors and counter-protestors gathered outside McGill\u2019s Roddick Gates over inclusive education Wednesday morning. The result was a raucous standoff lasting until early afternoon, with the two groups separated by Montreal police. Wednesday\u2019s protest…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":181468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[219,221],"tags":[30564,30573,26365,3012,30574,30554,26944],"radio":[28325],"origine":[274,1145,260],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181459"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182306,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181459\/revisions\/182306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181459"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=181459"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=181459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}