By Erika Morris
The Canadian Press
Posted March 6, 2026 1:03 pm
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Quebec’s Superior Court is hearing arguments in a case about a teacher who claimed her Charter rights were violated when she was ordered to hide a student’s gender identity from the student’s parents.
Provincial policy allows children 14 years and older to change their name and pronouns in school without parental consent.
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The Montreal high school teacher filed a constitutional challenge in 2023 after she was told by her school to use male pronouns for a 14-year-old student in class and female ones with the student’s parents.
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Friday’s preliminary hearing is about the anonymity of witness statements.
The court has not yet set a date to hear arguments in the wider case.
The court is withholding the teacher’s identity to protect the names of students in the proceedings.
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