Marchers, which assembled at the Durham District School Board offices in Whitby at nine this morning, are calling for the elimination of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) curriculum and policies in schools, which would “foster discrimination, perpetuate stereotypes, increase bullying and causes tremendous harm to 2SLGBTQIA+ students,” Ashe said in a statement. “It is important to shed light on the impacts of these nationwide protests. Pickering and the surrounding Durham area has voted mainly liberal in the past, but still held mostly conservative ideologies in their home life. The outlier groups of people born in the late 1980s and early 1990s only represent a small fraction of left leaning citizens. People much too comfortable to come out and protest against the anti-LGBTQ resistance.