Backsliding into hate triggers game of Russian roulette with children’s lives

There are real impacts to hateful behaviour, which is why outing someone who has not formed adequate community supports, and whose family support is questionable, is a bad idea.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe has threatened the use of the notwithstanding clause for his school pronoun policy which puts trans kids in danger while releasing them to possible dangerous environments, writes Erica Ifill.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ERICA IFILL

October 11, 2023

OTTAWA—Canada is sliding down a hateful hill into a cauldron of contempt for anyone who is not the model white, heterosexual Anglo male. And that hill is steep.

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