CBC editors discreetly changed a headline critical of New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs and his supporters over gender ideology being taught in schools..According to Blacklock’s Reporter, the network's ombudsman revealed the "correction" made by editors was due to “imprecise use” of the English language..“CBC editors agreed the headline was imprecise,” CBC Ombudsman Jack Nagler wrote. .“Editors changed the word.”.On September 20, CBC Fredericton published an online story headlined Higgs Greets Marchers Opposing LGBTQ Rights..The headline was changed to “LGBTQ Policies” following complaints..“This title is inaccurate and paints a completely untrue picture of what the people were marching for,” wrote one complainant. .“There were no ‘rights’ being opposed. Teaching gender ideology in schools was being opposed and protesting this does not remove any rights from any groups or classes of people.”.On July 1, Premier Higgs revised a Department of Education directive regarding informed consent of parents in accommodating transgender children in public schools. Policy 713 Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity was rewritten to mandate consent before adopting a child’s “preferred pronouns.” .The directive also repealed a requirement transgender children be entitled to participate in boys’ or girls’ sports of their choice based on “their gender identity.”.Nagler said general news coverage of “issues related to gender and sexuality in our nation’s schools and libraries” prompted more complaints in September than any other topic in the news. .“This was a flashpoint in many locations across the country,” Nagler wrote..Viewers also complained over a September 12 story on CBC-TV National News headlined “What’s Behind the Growing Drag Story Time Hostility?” .One complainant called the story “more of an opinion piece than a news report.”.“The story implied those people opposing drag queen story times are the same anti-vaxxer people who participated in the Freedom Convoy and then made a connection between those people and the delegates who recently participated in the Conservative convention in Québec City,” wrote one complainant..Men who dressed as women “were sympathetically depicted as tragic victims,” while Canadians opposed to the practice in schools and libraries were depicted as “white supremacist, crazy, uninformed, homophobic, religious, right-wing extremists filled with hate for drag queens and gay people in general,” said one complainant..Data from the census shows 0.3% of Canadians, a total of 100,815 people, identify as transgender or non-binary..“Canada is the first country to collect and publish data on gender diversity from a national census,” Statistics Canada wrote in a 2022 report Filling Gaps in Gender Diversity in Canada.
CBC editors discreetly changed a headline critical of New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs and his supporters over gender ideology being taught in schools..According to Blacklock’s Reporter, the network's ombudsman revealed the "correction" made by editors was due to “imprecise use” of the English language..“CBC editors agreed the headline was imprecise,” CBC Ombudsman Jack Nagler wrote. .“Editors changed the word.”.On September 20, CBC Fredericton published an online story headlined Higgs Greets Marchers Opposing LGBTQ Rights..The headline was changed to “LGBTQ Policies” following complaints..“This title is inaccurate and paints a completely untrue picture of what the people were marching for,” wrote one complainant. .“There were no ‘rights’ being opposed. Teaching gender ideology in schools was being opposed and protesting this does not remove any rights from any groups or classes of people.”.On July 1, Premier Higgs revised a Department of Education directive regarding informed consent of parents in accommodating transgender children in public schools. Policy 713 Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity was rewritten to mandate consent before adopting a child’s “preferred pronouns.” .The directive also repealed a requirement transgender children be entitled to participate in boys’ or girls’ sports of their choice based on “their gender identity.”.Nagler said general news coverage of “issues related to gender and sexuality in our nation’s schools and libraries” prompted more complaints in September than any other topic in the news. .“This was a flashpoint in many locations across the country,” Nagler wrote..Viewers also complained over a September 12 story on CBC-TV National News headlined “What’s Behind the Growing Drag Story Time Hostility?” .One complainant called the story “more of an opinion piece than a news report.”.“The story implied those people opposing drag queen story times are the same anti-vaxxer people who participated in the Freedom Convoy and then made a connection between those people and the delegates who recently participated in the Conservative convention in Québec City,” wrote one complainant..Men who dressed as women “were sympathetically depicted as tragic victims,” while Canadians opposed to the practice in schools and libraries were depicted as “white supremacist, crazy, uninformed, homophobic, religious, right-wing extremists filled with hate for drag queens and gay people in general,” said one complainant..Data from the census shows 0.3% of Canadians, a total of 100,815 people, identify as transgender or non-binary..“Canada is the first country to collect and publish data on gender diversity from a national census,” Statistics Canada wrote in a 2022 report Filling Gaps in Gender Diversity in Canada.
