The onslaught of radical social policy in our schools can seem like it has come on suddenly.

In reality, this insidious push has been years in the making, and the resources that support it have been around longer than you may think!

Take, for example, the document Questions & Answers: Gender Identity in Schools, a Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) publication, which was first published in 2011.

Questions & Answers is designated as a resource to assist educators, administrators, and curriculum planners to deal with students experiencing gender confusion.

The 27-page document is actually a manual of ideological conditioning, littered with instruction which is both shocking, yet also tragically familiar to those of us who have been following events in our schools. 

Educators are advised to refer to “gender variant youth” using the name and pronouns they have chosen “instead of by their birth name”. 

The document warns teachers in whom students have confided gender confusion not to “talk to anyone about their identity, including parents/caregivers, to whom they have not already disclosed their gender identity.”

So, keeping secrets from parents has been official PHAC policy since 2011?

But wait, I’m afraid there’s more.

Questions & Answers: Gender Identity in Schools advises administrators to “not wait until a gender variant student comes forward to address the issue”, but instead to develop policies, including creating “safe spaces”, alternative bathroom policies, and “adding categories other than male and female on forms”, all in anticipation of students coming forward. 

That doesn’t sound like responding to a need. It sounds more like creating one. 

Does this resource recognize the importance of keeping girls sports for girls? Sadly no, it advises that “(g)ender variant youth should be allowed to join sports teams according to their self-identified gender as opposed to requiring them to join based on their biological sex.”

 Sorry girls, your physical safety and fairness of competition will just have to take a back seat to gender ideology.

Perhaps the most infuriating aspect of Questions & Answers is found on page 6, where it says “(r)esearch has shown that 80 to 90% of pre-pubertal youth diagnosed with GID (gender identity disorder) no longer experienced GID into adolescence.”

So, they acknowledge that, in the vast majority of cases, gender confusion is a problem that will resolve itself in time, yet they advocate tailoring every aspect of school life for all students according to the perceived needs of those experiencing this confusion!

Though the tide of public opinion has been turning lately toward common sense and parental autonomy, this federal government resource, which has been helping to shape policy since 2011, is a reminder of just how deep the rot goes. 

We still have a long road ahead in correcting this problem.