To the editor:
Re: “District gender policy clarified again,” June 11.
Cheryl Rossi’s article of June 11th required several readings and still I could not make any sense of it. She writes that it is simply a problem of “wording” with the new VSB transgender policy but it is the content of the policy that is disturbing. Are morals a foreign concept here? Too difficult to grasp that most parents want their children to live by the same traditional values we have all been taught through the generations?
Calling it merely “a language issue” is a smokescreen, covering up the deeper implications that will seriously affect our vulnerable and highly impressionable children into the future.
These are the concerns that we want the VSB to give time to consider along with a broader consultation — not hurriedly just to get it done before parents are fully aware of what it is all about. Right now parents have too many other distractions like the impending strike for example, and cannot look at it closely as they need to do. Perhaps this is the intention in bringing it on at this time in this way. It certainly looks and feels like it. Dissenting voices are not welcome!
Stop using our children as pawns in a social engineering experiment to become “the most progressive sexualized school district” in Canada.
Sandra Harmel,
Vancouver
