This from Dita Sullivan:

Josh Alexander was suspended last November over comments made about gender in class and told he couldn’t return to class until he recanted.
"I said there were only two genders, and you were born either a male or a female, and that got me into trouble. And then I said that gender doesn’t trump biology.

A lawyer representing Alexander said that the school won’t let him attend classes again until he agrees "not to use the ‘dead name’ of any transgender student and agreed to exclude himself from his two afternoon classes because those classes are attended by two transgender students who disapprove of Josh’s religious beliefs.”
The school administration is turning this young man into a martyr, while also showing they long ago abandoned the Catholic beliefs they say they uphold as a school.
What does it teach the trans students who don’t want Alexander in their class because they disagree with his religious beliefs? It teaches them that they have special powers, are more important than other students, and don’t need to learn to deal with those they disagree with.
No one is well served by this.
This incident shows why it might be time to finally say goodbye to Ontario’s publicly funded Catholic school system. There’s nothing Catholic about it, they adhere to the same secular gospel as all of our other public institutions, and it is beyond saving.

Tim adds:

Maybe he should do what is falsely attributed to Galileo, genuflect and say "and yet it still moves". See what they do. Of course that won't work and we will not hear about it if it did. He needs to find another school. And his parents ought to refuse to pay property taxes because of this.

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