I am also not 100% on board with omitting the parents. I think if there a possibility that the children are being harmed that needs to be something our educators are trained to recognize, no different than if the children were showing up to school malnourished or with unexplained bruises.

But you’re not going to fix these issues by telling the parents about the childs choice of gender. At best the parents already know, at worst they’ll hurt the child because you told them.

It’s not the school divisions responsibility to determine which ideological beliefs are best for their children and what secrets should be kept from them. They are legal guardians for a reason and have every right to informed of their children’s behavior.

Not if there is a reasonable assumption this will lead to abuse. Children absolutely need reliable adults outside of their parents whom they can tell secrets without being afraid of their parents finding out. This is the same as a school telling parents that their kid is homosexual - no, the parents don’t have every right to be informed of this.

But I do feel the school divisions has a responsibility to let the proper authorities know if any kind of child abuse is occurring, which includes not allowing a child to express the gender identity they are comfortable with.

Of course they do. But since the school can’t really know if telling the parents will lead to abuse, they shouldn’t tell the parents, so the parents don’t abuse their children.