A Catholic high school student in Canada was reportedly arrested Monday after protesting against transgender people using bathrooms and saying there are only two genders — and now he’s in Ontario. Appealing to the Human Rights Tribunal.
Josh Alexander, 16, said leadership at St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Renfrew, Ontario, told him his continued attendance would be “detrimental to the physical and mental health” of transgender students. According to The Epoch Times.
The high school junior tweeted that Ontario police arrested and charged him after he tried to go to class in violation of an expulsion order following his suspension earlier this school year.
“Obviously, guilt is defined by anger,” Alexander told The Epoch Times. “I expressed my religious beliefs in class and it got out of control. Not everyone will like it. That doesn’t make me a badass. This does not mean that I am harassing anyone. They express their beliefs and I express mine. Mine obviously doesn’t fit the narrative.
Alexander, who described himself as a “born-again Christian” and led student action in support of last year’s truckers’ march, has reportedly not been to school since he was first suspended in November. went. He was suspended for allegedly organizing protests at his school against biological males in girls’ bathrooms and for arguing in class that God had created two unchanging sexes.
“Several students, including trans students, were kind of yelling at me,” the student told The Epoch Times of the classroom exchange.
Alexander was His principal said that she was allowed to return to the school only if she stopped using transgender students’ “dead names” or given names and separated herself from classes with two transgender students; Diya who objected to his religious views on gender.
Although he was removed in January, Alexander’s suspension was effectively continued after the Renfrew County Catholic District School Board “expelled” him for the remainder of the school year, according to his legal counsel. Liberty Coalition Canada. Alexander isn’t sure if the technical non-disciplinary action will continue into next year.
Alexander’s attorney, James Kitchen, said the school has accused his client of “bullying” transgender students.
“Obviously, he doesn’t actually bully them as that term would be defined by… reasonable people,” Kitchen told The Epoch Times. “He’s not going to find them and call them names and make fun of them. But he does share his thoughts about what these people say and what they believe and what they’re doing. And he expresses them online, and he expresses them in class.
Later this month, Alexander plans to appeal his original suspension to a provincial human rights tribunal, which will bring his case before a school board panel. The appeal allegedly involved a technical error over whether Alexander was emancipated from his parents.
The principal of St. Joseph’s Catholic High School told Fox News Digital that he is prohibited by Canadian law from commenting on the ongoing case.
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