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TDSB Posters Promote Gender Based Violence Prevention Initiative

Posted By: Michelle Rosa · 9/25/2012 5:58:00 AM

Question about a poster put out by the Toronto District School Board which says "Love has No Gender."

Sun columnist and NewsTalk 1010 host Joe Warmington asks in his column "so now the Toronto District School Board is telling kids they don't have to boys or girls? What the hell is going on with these people?"

A new series of posters are part of the TDSB's Gender Based Violence Prevention initiative.

In one poster, it shows stick men and women in a series of hearts. Some are one man and one woman together. Some show two men, or two women. Some show two men and a woman, or  two women and a man. Another, shows a woman and a man in a wheelchair.

The TDSB clarifies that it's not promoting polygamy in the poster, but the images are meant to show the different types of relationship that exist in society, according to the spokesman for the TDSB, Ryan Bird. In the article he explains, "For example, the reason for depicting two women and one man was meant to show that a person can be attracted to more than one gender.”

There are also other posters that make reference to little boys who play with dolls and little girls who want to be firefighters, encouraging kids to not fit themselves 'into a box'.

In the past, the TDSB has introduced calendar days for "International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers" and "International Day of Zero-Tolerance on Female Genital Cutting/Mutilation."

(files by D. Agar and M. Rosa)

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  1. MichaelP posted on 09/25/2012 08:57 AM
    So we have no money so we're going to war with every public union and we're adding debt at rapid pace BUT we have money for this stuff. Someone will need to explain this to me.
    1. StuG posted on 09/25/2012 09:40 AM
      @MichaelP absolutely agree! totally inappropriate. parents should be fuming
  2. proton posted on 09/25/2012 01:01 PM
    tdsb doing a poor job of teaching students the basics of education yet have the time and money to promote a murderer (che guevara) while having a parent arrested because his kid drew a picture of a toy gun.

    comedians like mike bullard and russell peters couldn't even come up with this absurdity.

    get rid of those responsible for this abuse of our kids.

    at an older age it's educational to discuss these things with kids PROVIDED there's a balance so kids can debate and better understand.

    it seems tdsb is more interested in indoctrinating and brainwashing kids then educating them.
  3. Bill R posted on 09/25/2012 02:33 PM
    Talk about an agenda. See their own site:
    http://www.tdsb.on.ca/_site/ViewItem.asp?siteid=10471&menuid=34015&pageid=28957
    "... welcomes, affirms and supports all sexual identities, biological sexes, sexual orientations, gender expressions and gender identities."
    Also it talks about "sexual diversity". Wow. "Polysexual", "pansexual". There are more than two biological sexes now?

    How about students are there to study and learn. Not to express or be proud of their abnormal proclivities to the point of making such declarations THE most defining characteristic of their being.
    1. proton posted on 09/25/2012 02:36 PM
      @Bill R they're teaching kids to be future public union members embracing the left. education is irrelevant as it's not necessary to perform with any degree of intelligence or competence to work for government.
  4. CoffeeCon posted on 09/26/2012 04:04 PM
    "For example, the reason for depicting two women and one man was meant to show that a person can be attracted to more than one gender.”

    Pardon, but was this a violence-reduction poster or a gender attraction poster? Isn't the point to indicate that violence isn't ok against either boys or girls?

    New poster: 'Vote Liberal' Then we'll show gays, and straights, and trans-everythings, and kids loving everyone and everything, you know, to promote 'Voting Participation is for Everyone'.
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