Parents complained to the education ministry about how gender and sexuality issues were treated in schools.

In the time leading up to New Brunswick’s highly publicized changes to its school gender policies, parents complained to the education ministry about how gender and sexuality issues were treated in schools.

Several such complaints viewed by The Epoch Times centre on a teacher-led group called Pride in Education (PIE) that pushed for “queering sex ed” as part of an LGBT-inclusive curriculum starting in kindergarten.

Through an access-to-information request, The Epoch Times obtained emails the education ministry considers representative of those Education Minister Bill Hogan said motivated the government to review Policy 713 this spring. The government ultimately revised the policy, effective July 1, to require parental permission for changing the name and pronoun used at school for children under 16.