Montreal teacher challenges policy for trans students to hide identity from parents

By Canadian Press on March 6, 2026.

MONTREAL — 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.

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.

Today’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.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 6, 2026.

Erika Morris, The Canadian Press