New Brunswick election: Liberals promise safeguards for LGBTQ+ students

The New Brunswick Liberals accidental that if elected, teachers volition nary longer request parental consent earlier they tin usage the preferred archetypal names and pronouns of transgender students nether 16.

Liberal Leader Susan Holt made the announcement contiguous arsenic she released her party’s platform.

The Liberals’ committedness is simply a effect to a betterment imposed successful 2023 by the Progressive Conservative authorities nether Premier Blaine Higgs, who said parents indispensable beryllium informed if their children are questioning their sex identity.

Higgs’s changes were criticized crossed the country, including by the premier minister, but polling suggests the argumentation is fashionable successful the province.

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Meanwhile, the Tory person promised contiguous that if re-elected his enactment would present authorities forcing radical into cause attraction if authorities deem they “pose a menace to themselves oregon others.”

Holt says the state doesn’t person resources to unit radical into treatment.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Oct. 3, 2024.