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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Policies emerging across the country, including in New Brunswick and Saskatchewan, that require young people to get parental consent before teachers can use their preferred first names and pronouns are at the heart of these protests.
Protest locations included Montreal, Fredericton, and Ottawa — where thousands of people were facing off in front of Parliament Hill and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh led a group of counter-protesters down Wellington Street.
In Ottawa, Toronto, Kitchener and Guelph, school boards issued statements expressing support for LGBTQ students, staff and families.
Similar marches and counter-protests are planned in B.C., which does not have a specific sexual orientations and gender identities (SOGI) curriculum in schools but where students learn about human rights, respecting diversity and responding to discrimination.
human rights commissioner Kasari Govender issued a statement Tuesday saying she is "disturbed by news of hate-fuelled marches" and said erasing trans people from school curricula amounts to hate.
That cabinet included the current leader of the Conservative Party of B.C., John Rustad, who issued a statement Wednesday in support of the rallies against "gender ideology" in schools, stating he would end the inclusion of SOGI materials in classrooms if elected.
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