Saskatchewan To Defend Pro-Family Laws in Court Battle With LGBT Activists Next Week

'The pro-LGBT group is challenging the ... pro-family law requiring parental consent for children under 16 to go by a different name or “gender” at school.'  

From LifeSiteNews

By Clare Marie Merkowsky

On September 23 and 24, Saskatchewan will be in court to defend pro-family legislation bolstering parental rights in school that is being challenged by an LGBT activist group.

Saskatchewan is going to court next week against an LGBT activist group challenging their new pro-family laws. 

On September 23 and 24, the Court of Appeal in Regina, Saskatchewan, will hear the case between pro-LGBT activist group UR Pride Centre for Sexuality and Gender Diversity at the University of Regina and the province of Saskatchewan. The pro-LGBT group is challenging the Saskatchewan government’s pro-family law requiring parental consent for children under 16 to go by a different name or “gender” at school.   

“This is a very important date,” pro-family organization Campaign Life Coalition’s Jack Fonseca told LifeSiteNews. “The Court of Appeal has the opportunity to do the right thing, and affirm the constitutional power that every provincial government has to invoke the Charter’s notwithstanding clause and thus protect their legislation free from interference by activist judges who want to usurp the role of lawmakers by legislating from the bench.”  

The pronoun policy is just one part of Saskatchewan’s new “Parental Inclusion and Consent Policies,” which also include provisions that ensure parents are allowed to opt their kids out of sex-ed, and that third-party presentations from groups such as Planned Parenthood are prohibited from taking place.    

Fonseca called the new policies “absolutely essential,” explaining they “protect children from being shunted by their teachers down the path of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and eventually, chemical castration and surgical mutilation which is associated with a 19-fold higher rate of suicide later in life.” 

“Therefore, by requiring schools to obtain parental consent before sexually transitioning their minor children, and protecting the right of parents to lovingly guide their kids through a transient period of confusion, this Bill of Rights will literally save lives,” he continued.   

“It’ll save them from committing suicide later in life when they come to regret the chemical castrations, penile amputations, hysterectomies and double mastectomies that they underwent thanks to the indoctrination in gender ideology they received at school,” Fonseca warned.  

Shortly after the policies were put in place, they were challenged by UR Pride, represented by Egale Canada.  

After a judge had ruled in favor of the LGBT group, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe announced that he would invoke his government’s notwithstanding clause to protect the legislation from the courts.    

The notwithstanding clause, embedded in section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, allows provinces to temporarily override sections of the Charter to protect new laws from being scrapped while higher courts make a determination on the constitutionality of the law.   

However, in February 2024, a King’s Bench judge ruled that the Charter case could continue despite the use of the notwithstanding clause.  

As previously announced, Saskatchewan will be supported by Alberta, which has committed to intervening to support the province’s pro-family legislation.   

“Alberta will seek to advance legal arguments that Saskatchewan’s use of section 33 of the Charter (the Parliamentary Supremacy Clause) should have prevented Saskatchewan’s Court of King’s Bench from reviewing the constitutionality of the Education (Parent’s Bill of Rights) Amendment Act, 2023 legislation,” the province promised.    

Despite the claims of pro-LGBT ideologues, surveys have shown that Moe is acting in the interest of Saskatchewan parents.

According to an August 2023 survey, 86 percent of Saskatchewan participants advocated for parental rights, supporting the province’s new approach.

Furthermore, over 40,000 Canadians have pledged their support for Saskatchewan’s fight for parental rights in the classroom, also calling on all other provinces to follow suit.       

“The Scott Moe government must fight this challenge by the LGBT pressure groups with every fibre of their being, and with every legal and political resource available to them,” Fonseca declared. “The Moe government cannot allow the advocates of chemical castration and surgical mutilation to win. We must protect our children from this child abuse.” 

“We urge all Canadians to pray for the Scott Moe government to be successful in this court case, for the best interests of children, parents, and truth,” Fonseca appealed. “May God come to their assistance.”  

It is important to note that despite the claims of LGBT activists, a significant body of evidence shows that “affirming” gender confusion carries serious harms, especially when done with impressionable children who lack the mental development, emotional maturity, and life experience to consider the long-term ramifications of the decisions being pushed on them, or full knowledge about the long-term effects of life-altering, physically transformative, and often irreversible surgical and chemical procedures.

Studies find that more than 80 percent of children suffering gender dysphoria outgrow it on their own by late adolescence and that “transition” procedures, including “reassignment” surgery, fail to resolve gender-confused individuals’ heightened tendency to engage in self-harm and suicide – and even exacerbate it, including by reinforcing their confusion and neglecting the actual root causes of their mental strife.

Pictured: Scott Moe, MLA, Premier of Saskatchewan