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Dominic Guillemette and his daughter Kloé Guillemette
The Centre de services scolaires (CSS) du Lac-Saint-Jean is defending itself for not having been able to protect a transgender teenager from violence and intimidation at the Pavillon Wilbrod-Dufour in Alma.
Last week, Kloé Guillemette was punched in the face by another student. The teenager will change schools after two years of hell.
Two years ago, Kloé Guillemette came out of the closet. Since then, the 15-year-old transgender teenager has been the object of insults and mockery that, over time, have turned into beatings.
In a video shot in February, a fight broke out near the Wilbrod-Dufour Pavilion. Last Wednesday, the situation came to a head when she was harassed by about 30 students at school at lunchtime. One of them hit her.
"That's when I pull out my knife to scare them. That's when the world reacts. That's when help comes. I definitely felt like my life depended on me. My safety, I think it was nothing but me that he had it in his hands."
- A quote from Kloé Guillemette
Her father, Dominic Guillemette, does not endorse the act, but feels it shows how far things have gone in two years. According to him, the students at fault have always done quite well. He laments that the school administration failed to protect his daughter from bullies, most of whom she did not know.
What they advised us to do was to keep her here when things got too much. I know they have done interventions with some. With the last altercation we had, there was a big gap. Where was the security? They didn't protect my daughter properly, not at all," he lamented.
The CSS reacts
The director general of the Centre de services scolaires du Lac-Saint-Jean, Marc-Pascal Harvey, assures that the school did everything it could. It was proposed to the parents to change their daughter's school last year.
This is one of the potential solutions. When we work in situations, we are in the human element. We have professionals involved in the case who have worked with the family and the parents. The solutions are in place," said Marc-Pascal Harvey.
Roxanne Gervais, executive director of the organization Diversité 02, is sorry to see that such behaviour still exists in 2022.
There are still crusts to eat at the level of the population, at the level of acceptance, at the level of how to work to, yes, offer safe environments, prevention, but also how to intervene with people who commit these acts, thinks Roxanne Gervais.
Kloé Guillemette will finally change schools. She and her father have chosen to denounce the situation in the public arena in the hope that it will not happen again. Dominic Guillemette does not exclude the possibility of turning to the courts.
From the report by Mélissa Paradis
Also read:
A transgender activist harassed after seeing her address published online
https://archive.ph/9FUCe
Dominic Guillemette and his daughter Kloé Guillemette
The Centre de services scolaires (CSS) du Lac-Saint-Jean is defending itself for not having been able to protect a transgender teenager from violence and intimidation at the Pavillon Wilbrod-Dufour in Alma.
Last week, Kloé Guillemette was punched in the face by another student. The teenager will change schools after two years of hell.
Two years ago, Kloé Guillemette came out of the closet. Since then, the 15-year-old transgender teenager has been the object of insults and mockery that, over time, have turned into beatings.
In a video shot in February, a fight broke out near the Wilbrod-Dufour Pavilion. Last Wednesday, the situation came to a head when she was harassed by about 30 students at school at lunchtime. One of them hit her.
"That's when I pull out my knife to scare them. That's when the world reacts. That's when help comes. I definitely felt like my life depended on me. My safety, I think it was nothing but me that he had it in his hands."
- A quote from Kloé Guillemette
Her father, Dominic Guillemette, does not endorse the act, but feels it shows how far things have gone in two years. According to him, the students at fault have always done quite well. He laments that the school administration failed to protect his daughter from bullies, most of whom she did not know.
What they advised us to do was to keep her here when things got too much. I know they have done interventions with some. With the last altercation we had, there was a big gap. Where was the security? They didn't protect my daughter properly, not at all," he lamented.
The CSS reacts
The director general of the Centre de services scolaires du Lac-Saint-Jean, Marc-Pascal Harvey, assures that the school did everything it could. It was proposed to the parents to change their daughter's school last year.
This is one of the potential solutions. When we work in situations, we are in the human element. We have professionals involved in the case who have worked with the family and the parents. The solutions are in place," said Marc-Pascal Harvey.
Roxanne Gervais, executive director of the organization Diversité 02, is sorry to see that such behaviour still exists in 2022.
There are still crusts to eat at the level of the population, at the level of acceptance, at the level of how to work to, yes, offer safe environments, prevention, but also how to intervene with people who commit these acts, thinks Roxanne Gervais.
Kloé Guillemette will finally change schools. She and her father have chosen to denounce the situation in the public arena in the hope that it will not happen again. Dominic Guillemette does not exclude the possibility of turning to the courts.
From the report by Mélissa Paradis
Also read:
A transgender activist harassed after seeing her address published online
