The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has filed the first lawsuit against New Brunswick’s changes to school gender-identity policy.
The suit follows Education Minister Bill Hogan’s decision in June to change Policy 713 to make it mandatory for staff to get parental consent before using the chosen names and pronouns of children under 16.
Hogan said parents have a right to decide what pronoun is best for their children and should be able to control what name and pronoun teachers and staff use in verbal communication, regardless of the child’s wishes.
He said if teachers grant a child’s request for a specific name and pronoun, and the
