Outraged parents pull kids from class after they were allegedly made to listen to a gender diversity lecture from drag queen: They werent letting us leave

Parents at a Canadian school yanked their kids out of class last week after discovering a drag queen gave a presentation about gender identity, and students who were uncomfortable during the event were allegedly not allowed to leave.Teo Ferguson, a nonbinary drag performer, gave a presentation on sexual orientation, gender identity, and relationships to seventh through ninth graders at Oyster Pond Academy in Nova Scotia, according to CTV News.When word spread about the presentation, outraged parents of the Nova Scotia schoolchildren — some furious that a drag queen was teaching the lesson — pulled their kids out of school on Friday in response.Other parents were upset when they discovered that children wanted to leave during the presentation and were made to stay and listen to the content.One mother who opted to take her child out of class Friday, Hollie Riggs, told CTV News that her son was upset during the presentation but was prohibited from leaving.“When I asked him about it, he said, ‘Mom, I didn’t want to be there, but they weren’t letting us leave,’” Riggs told the outlet.“It went above and beyond what should be taught in the classroom.”Another parent, Greg Austin, recounted what his son relaid to him after returning home from school following the presentation last week.“My son came home from school yesterday.He was telling me about the interactions he had with the influencer,” Austin said.“Mostly for me as a parent, we had no idea that anybody was coming to talk to our kids.” Austin said his son was also uncomfortable during the presentation and was upset seeing his peers who tried to leave being made to stay.“He could see people were not comfortable and that other people asked to leave, and they weren’t allowed to,” the dad said.

“There wasn’t any other option.”However, it was revealed that a majority of the outrage stemmed from the fact Ferguson allegedly shared their drag social media account with a student follow...