Dad Questions ‘Gender-Identity’ Training, Banned From Hockey Coaching
A Canadian youth hockey coach of 3 years says he has barred from assisting his son’s team on the bench as a result of his unwillingness to participate in league-mandated gender identity training.
“I can’t coach,” the father, identified only as “John Doe” over fears that he would be accused of “transphobia” for speaking to the media, told Quillette. . .
According to the outlet, major legal and regulatory changes have come to Canadian youth hockey in recent years as a result of coaching abuse scandals. The father was keen on a number of the actions taken, and educational efforts made, to protect the nation’s youth athletes.
"One slide used to train hockey coaches instructs them on the concept of ‘polygender’—which relates to those ‘who identify as multiple genders simultaneously & can be several genders at once,’ or who change their genders ‘depending on the day or the week’" https://t.co/wjUfxGg209
— Quillette (@Quillette) January 22, 2020
That is, until he discovered one such educational effort — what Quillette referred to as a “mandatory gender identity training course” — was vested almost entirely in the “ideological,” rather than the scientific and practical. . .
A broad, deeply progressive “free-form gender-studies seminar” on topics ranging from the oppressive colonial history of the “gender binary” to the wide array of genders now deemed mainstream by left-wing cultural orthodoxy, Quillette reported. (Read more from “Dad Questions ‘Gender-Identity’ Training, Banned From Hockey Coaching” HERE)
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