While Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce and Premier Doug Ford have both said parents should be informed when their children are transitioning genders at school, the province’s school boards have continued with policies that parents should not be informed.
“To date, not one Ontario school board has adopted a policy to require parental involvement in these sensitive interventions,” Julia Malott, a transgender person vocally in favour of parental rights, wrote in an op-ed for the National Post on Jan. 21.
