Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) teacher Paolo De Buono will be depriving himself of food to demonstrate against Ontario’s Catholic sexual education curriculum. .“Based on what I've seen, a few days without hitting the drive-thru won't do him any harm,” tweeted Quillette associate editor Jonathan Kay on Tuesday. .De Buono acknowledged Fully Alive is the official elementary sex ed textbook used by Catholic school boards in Ontario. .“Fully Alive teaches what would easily be flagged as homophobic and transphobic (and harmful) by non-Catholic school boards,” said De Buono. .“What are you doing to #StoptheCatholicHarm?” .His hunger strike will start on Thursday to bring attention to the harm Catholic teachers are inflicting on students by teaching from Fully Alive. .De Buono sent an email to a priest in 2022 that said he will be forbidden from speaking about sexual orientation and gender identity to his students. .READ MORE: Ontario Catholic teacher tells priest not to talk to students about sexuality.“When you visit my classroom, you are not permitted to make comments that marriage is only for a male-female couple, that there are only two genders, and that only males can be priests,” he said. .“You are not permitted to make negative comments about the Pride images or the non-cisgender image of Jesus.” .De Buono said in June his students are barred from saying there are two genders in his classroom. .READ MORE: Toronto Catholic teacher says his students cannot say there are two genders.“He operates a variety of Twitter accounts, all of which detail his various classroom genderwang diktats,” said Kay. .He said from his classroom account the Rainbow Room it is right for his students not to say there are two genders.
