Demands that Canada Post cease sending "hate mail" to New Brunswick about gender

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FREDERICTON - Nicki Lyons-MacFarlane described receiving a postcard from an anti-abortion group in their mailbox on Friday as a "punch in the gut" because it suggested that "gender ideology" was being taught in schools and that this was causing "surgical mutilation."
However, Lyons-MacFarlane, who goes by they/them, was instantly concerned about the other transgender and gender nonconforming young people they interact with who might have also gotten the card.


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The 34-year-old provincial NDP candidate for Fredericton's South-Silverwood constituency stated, "As a trans adult, it's hard enough."

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About 160,000 of these cards are being mailed to households throughout New Brunswick by the Campaign Life Coalition, according to Jack Fonseca, the organization's director of political manoeuvring. According to Fonseca, the group is concerned that if the Progressive Conservatives lose the next election, Premier Blaine Higgs's tight policy regarding gender identification in schools may be altered.

He said that the Canadian Civil Liberties Association is also criticizing the strategy.

"It was urgent to educate New Brunswickers that their parental rights are at risk," Fonseca stated.

It is anticipated that Higgs would include "parental rights" in his platform for reelection. The vote is not yet planned, but it needs to happen before October 25. Using the word, the premier defends his government's modifications to Policy 713, which mandate that instructors obtain permission from parents before using a student's preferred name or pronoun before the age of sixteen.

The postcards from the Campaign Life Coalition, named.

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