Harry Shannon
We got this flyer in our mailbox a couple of weeks ago:
My comment on this was the lead letter in the Hamilton Spectator today. Only 250 words allowed, so I couldn’t make all the points I would have liked to.
It’s a scary thought that someone like this man might get elected.
Here’s the text of my letter:
I found a very disturbing, expensively-produced flyer in my mailbox the other day. It was promoting a candidate for the public school board in Ward 13.
It made some outrageous, highly dubious claims. For example: ‘Observable reality is denied as students are encouraged to reject their biological gender.’ Where is the evidence for this? And the candidate needs to go back to school himself to learn the difference between gender and biological sex.
The flyer alleges that the school board has forced children to accept gender identity, woke ideology, indoctrination, and discrimination. I don’t really know what this means – it’s so vague it’s meaningless. But I do know that we should all protect the right to have your gender identity accepted.
One side of his flyer called the applicant a public school trustee. He is not. It’s worrying that someone wanting to guide our children’s education can make such a blatantly false claim.
We must not elect candidates like this.