School district stands firm against complaints, allows student opt-outs of drag queen story time

The Toronto District School Board is standing firm against complaints from parents and staff that students should not be permitted to opt out of drag queen storytime.

According to the Toronto Star, the board’s 2SLGBTQ+ Community Advisory Committee and groups such as Toronto Pflag have been lobbying against the opt-out option for weeks, claiming it violates the Ontario Human Rights Code.

This jibes with what a pair of York University academics posited last month — that allowing kids to ditch drag storytime is a “dangerous setback for 2SLGBTQ+ human rights education.”