LGBTQ advocates say policies requiring parental consent for students to change their name or pronouns could put children’s lives at risk
and Saskatchewan could have devastating impacts on LGBTQ youth, including increased rates of suicidal ideation, bullying and a higher likelihood of dropping out of school.
In Tuesday’s announcement, Mr. Duncan pointed to several cases where parental consent is already required for children under 16 and that are “less significant” than “the desire to change one’s gender,” such as enrolling in school or taking Tylenol. Kseniah Pidskalny, co-ordinator of the University of Saskatchewan Students’ Union Pride Centre, said policies requiring parental consent for students to change their name or pronouns potentially put the children’s lives at risk.
A study published last summer in the Canadian Medical Association Journal found that transgender youth are five times more likely than their peers to think about suicide, and 7.6 times more likely to attempt it.Policy 713 has been met with opposition from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and from within Premier Blaine Higgs’s cabinet.
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