Why Was a Canadian Student Expelled From Catholic School for Opposing Transgender Bathroom Policy?

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His expulsion and subsequent arrest for organizing protests against the policy — which allows biological males to use girls’ bathrooms — raises the question of whether U.S. schools might be forced to adopt similar practices.

The religious liberty rights of Canadian high school student Josh Alexander gained international attention earlier this month when his opposition to his Catholic high school’s transgender bathroom policy on biblical grounds led to his suspension and arrest.

The 16-year-old’s case, which occurred in a school in eastern Ontario, also reveals that some Canadian Catholic schools are diverging from Church teaching with polices such as allowing students to use bathrooms based on their gender identity — and U.S. Catholic schools may be facing pressures to do the same.

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