Several hundred people marched through the streets of downtown Halifax Wednesday during noisy protests and counter-protests over LGBTQ rights and education policies in schools.
Michelle Lindsay, a protest supporter who said she is the Atlantic Canada lieutenant for the People's Party of Canada, said the march was about standing up to the "gender-identity agenda," including children being asked how they identify.
Nabila Manna, a 13-year-old junior high student in Halifax, said she joined the protest because she doesn't want to learn about gender identity in school. Last year, she said she refused to sit in class while the subject was being taught, and said it's "crazy" that students are asked how they prefer to be identified at school.
The turnout on both sides was surprisingly large, they said, and it was a "bit surreal" to see the aggression, conflict and division between the two."I think if I had been taught about that, I would have spent a lot less years in conflict with myself, hating myself," Mestres-Wyenberg said. Health curriculum for Grade 4 to Grade 9 students includes gender identity. Teachers are encouraged to use open-ended questions in class discussions, such as how to respect ways gender can be expressed, and how societal, cultural and religious beliefs impact how gender roles are viewed.
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