A Catholic school district in Canada is being applauded for cancelling a touring play about gender identity that is directed to elementary school-aged children as young as five years.

FoxNews.com is reporting on the controversy surrounding the play, entitled Boys, Girls, and Other Mythological Creatures which was supposed to have been performed by Carousel Players, a performing arts center, at five Niagara Catholic District schools (NCDSB). However, over the course of 48 hours last week, the schools all developed a sudden scheduling conflict and cancelled the performance. 

The story line of the play is centered on a boy named Simon/e who invents a fairy tale for a class assignment in which he imagines being a princess and feels “boxed in” by the restraints of gender.

After the play was performed at one Catholic grade school “it did not take them [school administrators] long to realize the content was definitely not age appropriate," reports Fox's Todd Starnes.

As a result, the school district released a statement explaining that the play “was not originally presented as a play about gender identity.”

According to the Globe and Mail, just after the first play was performed, Carousel Players received cancellations from five NCDSB schools, with at least one school citing scheduling conflicts.

Carousel Players artistic director Jessica Carmichael published an open letter on the theatre’s website complaining that she had not received “a satisfactory or open conversation” about why, over the course of 48 hours last week, the schools in question all developed scheduling conflicts with planned presentations of Mark Crawford’s play about an eight-year-old named Simon/e who feels “boxed in by the restraints of gender.”

“I fear these cancellations may be based on misinformation, grown out of fear, intolerance, transphobia, homophobia and misogyny,” she wrote and posted a screenshot of a Facebook post where parents of children who had seen the show complained that it taught children “if a boy plays dress up he mights [sic] be a girl.”

The NCDSB is not making any officials available for comment to discuss the cancellations and confirm whether or not they were coordinated.

“As a fully inclusive and supportive Catholic Board for all students and staff, decisions regarding offering presentations to students from community members are made upon individual consideration and review,” spokesperson Jennifer Pellegrini said in an e-mail to The Globe and Mail. “We will continue to follow our process when presentations are offered to be delivered within our school communities.”

While the incident has riled LGBT activists, praise is raining down on the district for standing firm.

“Kudos to Catholic educators for standing their ground and ordering the playhouse to pack up and get out of their schoolhouses,” Starnes writes.

“It’s appalling for any school board, let alone a Catholic one, to use a cutesy play to force gender ideology and whatever the latest social fad is on kids who are nowhere near equipped to process this information,” education activist Tanya Allen told LifeSiteNews.

This story is a prime example of why parents need to be fully engaged with the educators of their children and do everything they can to counter these trends, such as introducing girls to the new Young Women of Grace program which not only affirms their feminine gender, but celebrates it for the genius that it is!

Otherwise, as Starnes says, “American and Canadian schools will simply become playgrounds for the gender and sex revolutionaries.”

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