A teacher traumatizes a 6-year-old girl
by saying "there are no boys or girls"
OTTAWA, June 19, 2019 ( LifeSiteNews ) - The parents of a six-year-old girl who was upset after her teacher told her class that "there are no boys and girls" have lodged a complaint about a human rights violation against the Ottawa Carleton District School Board,
alleging discrimination by the teacher in creating a "poisoned environment".
The child's mother, Pamela Buffone, told Barbara Kay in an article in The Post Millennial that her daughter was more and more upset after her teacher showed the class a video called "He, she and them?!? - Sex: "Queer Kid Stuff # 2" to his six year old students in January 2018.
The video says "some people are not boys or girls" and there are people who "do not feel like an" her "or" him ", Kay said.
alleging discrimination by the teacher in creating a "poisoned environment".
The child's mother, Pamela Buffone, told Barbara Kay in an article in The Post Millennial that her daughter was more and more upset after her teacher showed the class a video called "He, she and them?!? - Sex: "Queer Kid Stuff # 2" to his six year old students in January 2018.
The video says "some people are not boys or girls" and there are people who "do not feel like an" her "or" him ", Kay said.
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Buffone said her daughter told her that the teacher, whom Kay called JB, continued to teach the gender ideology throughout the semester, telling her students "There are no girls neither boys "and that" the girls are not real and the boys are not real. "
As a result, her daughter became more and more worried and angry, repeatedly asking why being a girl
was "not real" and telling her parents that she wanted to go to a doctor, said Buffone.
Buffone then met the teacher in March, who seemed "committed to teaching sexual fluency" and told the mother
that gender ideology was part of school policy, Kay wrote.
The teacher also stated that "the subject of sex reassignment was addressed" and "did not seem to worry unduly about N's personal distress and did nothing to affirm N's feminine identity". reported Kay.
Buffone spoke on the phone with the principal, Julie Derbyshire, who told her that there was a child in the class with some kind of confusion. Buffone later discovered that the child's parents had not requested a class on gender identity,
but had expressed concern that their child would not be bullied, Kay reported.
The Buffones then met with the Superintendent and the Superintendent of Curriculum, to no avail.
According to their human rights complaint, "the school board did not agree to communicate with parents in sensitive discussions or to accept direction or take corrective action to ensure that sex affirmed in a positive way, "Kay wrote.
The Buffones have since withdrawn their daughter from Devonshire and enrolled her in another school, where she is doing well.
In their human rights complaint, they allege that the Grade 1 teacher subjected her daughter "to continued discrimination based on sex and gender identity, through a series of lessons that denied existence of the female sex and biological sex and undermined the value of identifying as a woman. "
They also allege that the principal and counsel "perpetuated and reinforced the discrimination N had suffered in her first year class, since neither Ms. Derbyshire nor any school board official took corrective action to remedy the discrimination."
The Buffones are asking the court to order the school board to ensure that classroom instruction
"does not devalue, deny or in any way undermine female gender identity."
They want the court to ask teachers to inform parents when classes on gender identity will take place or have taken place, including educational goals and materials that will or will have been used for these courses.
They also claim $ 5,000 in general damages "to compensate for the damage to dignity, feelings and self-esteem caused by discrimination".
LifeSiteNews contacted the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board for a comment but did not receive a response prior to publication.
Buffone told Kay that it's "an important case".
"Our government seems to have given teachers carte blanche to explain how they teach this concept (of gender identity). If this is an example of how this can be taught, I think it is in the public interest for the HRTO to intervene, "she said.
"The Ontario Human Rights Code states that a poisoned environment is a form of discrimination. We will demonstrate that the way (JB) taught the concept of gender identity resulted in a poisoned environment, "said Buffone.
"The director further exacerbated the situation in that the only option we were given was to take our daughter out
of the classroom of these classes, which is an exclusionary treatment," she said.
"N's gender identity is - or was - a flawless comfort in her biological skin. She had never doubted this comfort. Suddenly, she was told to believe that at any time, what she believes to be real - that she is a girl - may not be true, "observed Kay.
"This thought must be frightening to a child who is not old enough to understand the abstract concept of fluidity between the sexes. His parents are allies here and his educational environment allows him to not be assertive. Why could not she be welcomed as well
as the questioning child? Why did this situation end up in a human rights court? "
Tanya Granic Allen of Parents as Early Educators says that Premier Doug Ford shares responsibility for this situation.
"Will the Buffones succeed at the tribunal? I do not know, "writes Granic Allen in an email to his followers.
"What I do know is that this Doug Ford government had the ability to repeal the teaching of gender identity theory in the classroom - and promised it - and that the government nothing repealed. They lied, she said.
"And who pays the price for the cowardice and the flip-flop of the Ford government? The children of Ontario. "
As a result, her daughter became more and more worried and angry, repeatedly asking why being a girl
was "not real" and telling her parents that she wanted to go to a doctor, said Buffone.
Buffone then met the teacher in March, who seemed "committed to teaching sexual fluency" and told the mother
that gender ideology was part of school policy, Kay wrote.
The teacher also stated that "the subject of sex reassignment was addressed" and "did not seem to worry unduly about N's personal distress and did nothing to affirm N's feminine identity". reported Kay.
Buffone spoke on the phone with the principal, Julie Derbyshire, who told her that there was a child in the class with some kind of confusion. Buffone later discovered that the child's parents had not requested a class on gender identity,
but had expressed concern that their child would not be bullied, Kay reported.
The Buffones then met with the Superintendent and the Superintendent of Curriculum, to no avail.
According to their human rights complaint, "the school board did not agree to communicate with parents in sensitive discussions or to accept direction or take corrective action to ensure that sex affirmed in a positive way, "Kay wrote.
The Buffones have since withdrawn their daughter from Devonshire and enrolled her in another school, where she is doing well.
In their human rights complaint, they allege that the Grade 1 teacher subjected her daughter "to continued discrimination based on sex and gender identity, through a series of lessons that denied existence of the female sex and biological sex and undermined the value of identifying as a woman. "
They also allege that the principal and counsel "perpetuated and reinforced the discrimination N had suffered in her first year class, since neither Ms. Derbyshire nor any school board official took corrective action to remedy the discrimination."
The Buffones are asking the court to order the school board to ensure that classroom instruction
"does not devalue, deny or in any way undermine female gender identity."
They want the court to ask teachers to inform parents when classes on gender identity will take place or have taken place, including educational goals and materials that will or will have been used for these courses.
They also claim $ 5,000 in general damages "to compensate for the damage to dignity, feelings and self-esteem caused by discrimination".
LifeSiteNews contacted the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board for a comment but did not receive a response prior to publication.
Buffone told Kay that it's "an important case".
"Our government seems to have given teachers carte blanche to explain how they teach this concept (of gender identity). If this is an example of how this can be taught, I think it is in the public interest for the HRTO to intervene, "she said.
"The Ontario Human Rights Code states that a poisoned environment is a form of discrimination. We will demonstrate that the way (JB) taught the concept of gender identity resulted in a poisoned environment, "said Buffone.
"The director further exacerbated the situation in that the only option we were given was to take our daughter out
of the classroom of these classes, which is an exclusionary treatment," she said.
"N's gender identity is - or was - a flawless comfort in her biological skin. She had never doubted this comfort. Suddenly, she was told to believe that at any time, what she believes to be real - that she is a girl - may not be true, "observed Kay.
"This thought must be frightening to a child who is not old enough to understand the abstract concept of fluidity between the sexes. His parents are allies here and his educational environment allows him to not be assertive. Why could not she be welcomed as well
as the questioning child? Why did this situation end up in a human rights court? "
Tanya Granic Allen of Parents as Early Educators says that Premier Doug Ford shares responsibility for this situation.
"Will the Buffones succeed at the tribunal? I do not know, "writes Granic Allen in an email to his followers.
"What I do know is that this Doug Ford government had the ability to repeal the teaching of gender identity theory in the classroom - and promised it - and that the government nothing repealed. They lied, she said.
"And who pays the price for the cowardice and the flip-flop of the Ford government? The children of Ontario. "
