Hundreds of people gathered outside the Saskatchewan Legislative Building in Regina on Saturday to speak out against a new provincial government policy that requires parental consent when children under 16 want to use different names or pronouns at school.
Brendan Dickey, a Regina-based teacher who helped organize the rally, says he believes the legislation will cause harm.
“It puts a whole bunch of youth at risk from the two-spirit, the trans and from the non-binary communities in our province,” Dickey said.
“We’re being told as educators that we are to out these students to their parents if they are not already out.”
The policy, announced
