# Source note — ConservativeBC “SOGI 123 DEFUNDED” Facebook claim

Date checked: 2026-07-20

## Social lead
- User-supplied Facebook share: https://www.facebook.com/share/1BMtFNWhni/?mibextid=wwXIfr
- Resolved public post: Conservative Party of BC photo/post.
- Graphic text: “After years of pressure from the BC Conservatives… SOGI 123 DEFUNDED.”
- Facebook description text visible to requests: “A major achievement for parents all over BC. After years of pressure from the Conservative Party of BC, the BC NDP have given up on SOGI and defunded the...”

## Verdict used in article
Partly true / overstated.

Confirmed:
- ConservativeBC made the claim publicly.
- B.C.’s old government SOGI page now says the page has moved and points readers to the broader Diversity and inclusion page.
- The current B.C. diversity page still talks about safe, caring and inclusive schools and includes sexual orientation and gender identity language.
- Government-hosted SOGI-related PDFs/resources were still accessible in this review.
- SOGI 123 has been a long-running B.C. school-resource controversy and was an explicit B.C. Conservative election/platform issue.

Not proven in this review:
- That the whole SOGI 123 framework has been abolished province-wide.
- That every district has stopped using SOGI resources.
- That an official government notice says “SOGI 123 is defunded” in those words.
- That a specific funding contract/grant was cancelled; no accessible official funding notice was found in this pass.

## Important source limits
- SOGIEducation.org pages were blocked by Cloudflare to direct requests, though search results and other sources identify current pages.
- Richmond News was Cloudflare-blocked to direct fetch.
- Direct official funding records for a cancelled SOGI 123 grant/contract were not found in this pass.

## Main anchors
- B.C. government SOGI page: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/erase/sogi
- B.C. government Diversity and inclusion page: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/erase/diversity-and-inclusion
- B.C. government SOGI resource guide PDF: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/erase/documents/sogi_resource_guide.pdf
- CBC 2023/2024 explainers and election articles on SOGI 123.
- UBC/SARAVYC 2024 SOGI 123 evaluation PDF.
- Castanet 2026 report on Peter Milobar and Conservative leadership SOGI position.