Countryside Village Public School in Brampton, ON, hung samples of sexual minority flags in its hallway and explained what they meant. .“Nobody is indoctrinating your kids, Exhibit F,” tweeted former Ontario high school teacher Chanel Pfahl on Tuesday. .Countryside Village started off by defining pansexual as “the attraction to people regardless of their gender identity.” It said the pink in the pansexual flag is for those who identify as female, the yellow is for those outside of the gender binary and the blue is for males. .A lesbian is a female-identified person attracted to other female-identified people. The red, purple and pink in the lesbian flag represent feminine colours. .Countryside Village said the Pride flag represents all sexualities, but it can be used by gay men as a flag. With the Pride flag, it said the red is for life, the orange is for healing, the yellow is for sunlight, the green is for nature, the blue is for peace and harmony and the purple is for spirit. .When it comes to bisexuals, they are people attracted to two or more genders. The pink is for the attraction to the same gender, the purple is for two genders and the blue is for a different gender. .For transgender people, they are those whose gender identity does not align with the sex they were assigned at birth. The light blue is the traditional colour for boys, light pink is the traditional colour for girls and white is intersex people. .Countryside Village defined non-binary as people “who don’t identify with the gender they were assigned with at birth.” It said the yellow is for those whose gender falls outside of the binary, white is for those of many or all genders, purple is for those falling between female and male, and black is for those without a gender. .Intersex people are those born without physical sex characteristics not matching male or female bodies. The purple and yellow are about gender neutrality, and the circle means wholeness. .The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) said in May students should be required to learn about sexual minorities regardless of what their parents think. .READ MORE: Ottawa school board says sexual minority rights trump parental concerns.“All staff at the @OCDSB received this email on May 31st, informing them that 2SLGBTQ+ representation in the curriculum and classroom is 'a fundamental human right,' that opting out of '2SLGBTQ+ learnings' is not an option, and that teachers who want to 'foster inclusivity' can 'begin the school year using they/them pronouns for all,' until students have specified otherwise,” said Pfahl. .The OCDSB started off by saying sexual minority representation in the curriculum and classroom is a human right.
