(LifeSiteNews) — A Canadian mom has been barred from the property of the school her son attends after objecting to a teacher wearing a “transgender pride flag” shirt at school.
According to the Western Standard, officials at the Nanaimo-Ladysmith School District claimed that Bryony Dixon, who posted a photo of the teacher wearing the shirt to Facebook on September 2, had “put a staff member at risk and violated district policies.”
Dixon’s post expressed concern that the teacher’s shirt was promoting a dangerous ideology:
After a trans identified, heavily medicated, psycho (one of several in recent years) premeditated the murder of 2 school kids in Minneapolis just last week — an ideologue teacher at my son’s school has chosen to rock the extremist, misogynist, and homophobic flag of their shared secular religion on the first day back.
A sex-denying transhumanist propaganda shirt made by the “Nanaimo District Teacher’s Association”.
Who wants to wager that this State “educator” will be filling student heads full of divisive, radicalising, and pseudoscientific grievance narratives all year?! Denying girls the right to safety, privacy, dignity, fairness in sports, and even their own sex based language upon fear of severe retribution?
If my son is put in this individual’s class, I will not hesitate to pull him and home school.
“It just makes my skin crawl, this whole idea that these propaganda symbols are being shoved down our kids’ throats,” Dixon told the Western Standard. “I thought the timing of that was so insensitive, so I wanted to say something about this. I didn’t identify the individual… it could be any teacher. I didn’t say anything about anyone’s gender identity. I’m talking about the flag and the ideology.”
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Dixon was told to take the post down in a letter written by Assistant Superintendent Jacquie Poulin, who stated that it was “contrary to the Human Rights Code of British Columbia, and likely constitutes bullying and harassment” and that “we believe this post risks inciting violence against our employee.” Dixon refused, and at time of writing, the post is still on her Facebook page. She shared the letter on Facebook, stated that she had not identified the staff member in question, and reiterated that she objected to “the radical propagandist symbol.”
In response, Superintendent Robin Gray “issued a formal exclusion order under Section 177 of the School Act, barring Dixon from entering Ladysmith Intermediate School,” stating that: “We are concerned that your post links violence in the United States with an identifiable photo of a member of our staff, thereby creating a risk of inciting violence against them.”
Dixon has now removed her son from the school; the Western Standard reported that Dixon “also claims the district had previously been monitoring her social media activity due to prior disputes over gender ideology in schools, such as her having spoken at events with author and commentator Megan Murphy, drawing attention from other parents and educators who share her concerns.”
Dixon will now be giving homeschooling a try, since she feels “very uncomfortable about the idea of sending him into a building I’m not allowed to go into.” She says that many other parents share her concerns but mostly restrict their objections to sending her private messages.
“[The district is] bullying me,” she said. “They don’t look at the evidence—none of it—about jurisdictional changes on transitioning minors, or the impacts on LGBTQ youth.”
“If I can take this to court, that would be ideal, because they need to realize they have to hear their community. Ironically, they currently have a draft policy seeking feedback on consulting parents and encouraging debate—but in practice, they don’t follow it,” she continued. “I really would love it if the public school system was not traumatizing.”
