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Laurie Throness, a former BC MLA, cites Tumbler Ridge massacre as a wake up call
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FIRST READING: B.C. school trustee quits to call out gender ideology in schools Back to video
A B.C. school trustee has resigned for the specific purpose of calling out the influence of gender ideology in schools following the Tumbler Ridge school shooting, which was committed by a trans-identifying 18-year-old.
“We need to suspend SOGI (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) province-wide until a examination is done on its impact, if any, on the perpetrator of the tragedy in Tumbler Ridge,” wrote Laurie Throness, in a Monday statement posted to Facebook following his late February resignation from the Chilliwack School Board.
On Feb. 10, Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, murdered six people at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, including five children. Initially identified by police as a “gunperson,” Van Rootselaar was a biological male who had begun identifying as female a few years earlier.
Throness, who previously served as a BC Liberal MLA, is calling for a “full public inquiry” on the impact of SOGI in B.C. schools.
First introduced in 2016, SOGI differs from prior approaches to sex or LGBT curricula in its emphasis on the idea of gender as a self-identified trait disconnected from biology.
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