Thu Sep 21, 2023 – 12:54 pm EDT
QUEBEC CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Quebec has announced that they will not allow gender-neutral bathrooms in their schools, placing students’ wellbeing above the demands of LGBT activists.
On September 12, Quebec Education Minister Bernard Drainville declared that the province will not install gender-neutral bathrooms in schools after one school, École d’Iberville, announced its plan to install gender-neutral bathrooms for the following school year.
“We don’t think it’s a good idea,” said Drainville in a press meeting on Tuesday, the first day of the provincial parliamentary session resuming in Quebec City. “The school needs to rectify the situation.”
École d’Iberville, a secondary school in Rouy-Noranda, Quebec, said it planned to build bathroom stalls running the length of the ceiling to the floor so that only the sink area would be shared.
However, Drainville voiced concerns over female students feeling uncomfortable having to share bathroom space with male students.
“A 12-, 13-, 14-year-old girl who starts menstruating, for example, and comes out of the cubicle, then there are 13-, 14-year-old boys looking at her,” he explained. “Mockery, sarcasm, humiliation: a scenario we don’t want, so I think we need to
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