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1/ The current controversy in Saskatchewan shows how the gender debate has become the perfect storm for loss of confidence in the Charter. The Charter has never commanded universal respect among Canadians but in recent years these doubts have increased.
2/ The Charter was introduced by Pierre Trudeau over opposition from the provinces. The notwithstanding clause was one of a series of compromises which won the grudging support of 9 provinces. Quebec did not agree and has used the notwithstanding clause regularly.
3/ Public support for the Charter has grown because it was believed to secure broadly shared values of equality between individuals and limitations on state authority. It was seen as reinforcing democratic government by protecting the fundamental conditions for democracy.
4/ More recently academic and now judicial thinking has adopted a new concept of human rights based on ameliorating the condition of oppressed groups, even at the expense of traditional values of liberty and equality.
5/ This new concept of rights has pushed the courts further into the realm of policy making for which the judicial process is not designed. Bad decisions will happen and as they become more frequent the need for a political safety valve has increased.
6/ A basic problem is that court procedures are intended to resolve a clear conflict between two parties. There are often many different perspectives to a Charter issue and all of these perspectives are seldom adequately represented in court.
7/ The rules of evidence make it difficult to present a full picture of the complexity of an issue like pediatric gender transition. The scientific background has to be presented through expert witnesses who submit written reports. This is a costly process.
8/ The high costs of bringing a Charter case mean that many cases are brought by groups receiving government funding. The government is using the Charter litigation to advance the interests of favoured groups in a way that bypasses the legislative and public debate.
9/ Judges of course follow the media and in most cases they can rely on their own general knowledge to aid in understanding the evidence presented in court. However, on the issue of gender medicine Canadian media coverage has been hopelessly biased.
10/ A judge who reads the Globe and Mail and listens to the CBC will have heard nothing about the international controversy over gender medicine. There has been no coverage of the closure of the Tavistock gender clinic of the policy changes in Sweden, Finland and Norway.
11/ Strict rules of evidence exist because court cases are intended to provide a final resolution to a dispute. There are provisions to re-open a criminal conviction where new evidence is discovered after trial in other types of cases the decision is final after the final appeal.
12/ Public policy, on the other hand, should be constantly revised as new and better evidence emerges. New evidence on pediatric gender transition is emerging rapidly but it is being ignored by Canadian media and policy makers.
13/ There is a risk that when Canada finally realizes how harmful the current approach to pediatric transition has become, the ability to change course will be hindered by Charter judgments made on the basis of faulty and limited evidence.
14/ In these circumstances, use of the notwithstanding clause may be a necessity but it is worth considering that we would not be in this mess if our major institutions did not show such disregard for the Charter’s protection of freedom of expression.
You don’t get to do that.
You don’t get to tell girls with mental health issues that they will be freed from those struggles if they live life as a boy. You don’t get to tell boys that all the suffering and pain they feel will melt away if they live life as a girl.
That’s not how it works.
You don’t get to abuse children with mental health issues and/or past traumas just so you can push a harmful narrative which you likely know nothing about. Because again, that’s not how it works.
So you don’t get to do that.
And you don’t get to sit back and pretend like this isn’t happening. You don’t get to hide child abuse or ignore it because it’s wrapped it in a rainbow.
You don’t get to tell gay kids that they don’t belong and would be happier if they were someone else because they don’t fit into ridiculously restrictive pre-determined gender roles.
You don’t get to erase gay kids. And you don’t get to address any of these issues with manipulation and scalpels. You don’t get to teach children that any amount of discomfort needs to be avoided at all cost.
Because sometimes life is hard.
And sometimes that’s ok.
Furthermore, you don’t get to scream about trans rights being human rights when really they’re a list of demands that abuse kids and demean the actual LGB&T communities, while simultaneously trample over women and everything they fought for.
That’s not how it works either. So you don’t get to do that.
You don’t get to leave women out of this conversation or invade their spaces.
You don’t get to leave the LGB&T communities out of this conversation or group us together with the alphabet mafia. And let’s not forget about parents. Parents have every right to know what is being taught in their child’s school. And they, more than anyone, should be aware of the struggles their child might be facing. You don’t get to leave parents out of the conversation either.
You don’t get to do that.”
People are waking up and appraising the damage being done by gender ideology. This from D.C.L. on twitter.
Given the general public rise in awareness of gender ideology and how it affect them and their children it would be good to be able to find resources to help fill in the blanks.
The Canadian Women’s Sex Based Rights – caWsbar – Website is good place to start.
Here are their 10 principles:
Parents with Inconvenient Truths About Trans – a substack dedicated to telling the stories and struggle of parents who are actively engaged in struggle with gender ideology and its effects on their children. Here is one parents story:
“The following story was recounted in the comments section of The Daily Signal YouTube video. We republish it here in the hopes it will help PITT readers.
According to Cambridge English Dictionary, reverse psychology is “a method of trying to make someone do what you want by asking them to do the opposite and expecting them to disagree with you.” Reverse psychology is a strategy for getting what you want by demanding or suggesting what you don’t want. This brilliant strategy was used by a wily mom on her gender confused teen.
This all started with a familiar tale of social contagion. A group of 14-year-old girls all came out as trans at the same time. This ideology was affirmed by the school, but we know there’s plenty of content online that may have planted the seed. What 14-year-old wouldn’t want to avoid the indignities of puberty? This is where the story takes an unusual turn.
When one of the girls informed her mother that she was a boy trapped in the wrong body, this mom was not having it. Or she was having too much of it. This Mom’s response:
“You’re trans? Really? So am I. We can transition together.”
The girl was stunned. That was NOT the reaction she was expecting. “You are NOT!” the girl declared.
The Mom just responded with, “Well, we’ll see.
The next morning the girl woke up to find her mom in full male and queer regalia. She was wearing her husband’s clothes. She had dyed her hair with pink stripes. And she was more than happy to drive her daughter to school that day.
The girl was horrified. Now she was not having it. She insisted that her mom was not trans, supplying many reasons why her mom was not a man. But the mom was adamant. “If you’re trans, I must be too. I was a tomboy as a teen, so, yup, that must mean that I’m trans just like you.”
This drove the teenager crazy. Poor muffin.
In all the commotion, she had forgotten her lunch, so she had to call her mom to bring it to the school. When her mom arrived, the teen was called to the office and found her mom sporting a fake mustache and a fancy new men’s haircut. The mortification continued.
Once she saw the impact she was having, the mom contacted the parents of the other girls in the trans circle. After some convincing, all their moms and one dad agreed to socially transition as well. They all dressed as the opposite sex and claimed to be trans just like their daughters, which flabbergasted the girls and embarrassed them no end. The parents went over the top with their “transitions.” For weeks the girls gave the parents all the reasons that they could muster for why they were definitely NOT Trans.
Then the school got involved. They called the ringleader mom accused her of being transphobic for perpetrating this “ridiculous ruse”. They threatened that if “she” did not stop this “charade” they would take action against her and the other parents for actively mocking their daughters.
The mom did what any self-respecting transitioner would and asserted her rights. Her response to the school was along the lines of “First of all, HOW DARE YOU MIS-GENDER ME?!!!? IT’S SIR!!! YOU WILL RESPECT MY PRONOUNS! I’ll bet the media would love to hear how the school’s administrators are being so Transphobic. How dare you try to get me to denounce my “true self””?
The school quickly dropped their demands. But not before the mom demanded they apologize to her… in writing.
Meanwhile, this mom spent plenty of time researching gender ideology and the side effects from cross-sex hormones. With this knowledge she would pepper her daughter with questions—“Is this true? Why would your teacher tell “us” that this could happen?” She would suggest the girl reach out and question the school authorities directly, all the while thinking that the teachers would run out of excuses…which they did.
The mom pretended not to believe any negative aspects of gender ideology, forcing her daughter to find more information to prove that she was “right” which made her stop trusting her teachers. Like most teens, her daughter needed to believe that “she” had uncovered the inconsistencies of gender ideology by herself.
What happened? Well, the girls eventually lost interest in something their parents were doing. And they lost their trust in the teachers and guidance counselor who had misled them. More than mistrust, they resented them. And they shared the reasons for that resentment with their larger friend group. The counselor creepily kept trying to convince the girls that they were trans even after they stopped “identifying” as boys, which the girls used as proof that they were groomers.
This resourceful mom figured if strangers at school could manipulate her daughter into believing in this absolute nonsense, the mom could manipulate her daughter into thinking that she was on her side and plant some seeds of doubt.
It all worked out in the end but results may vary.”
And for the latest in the medical field regarding gender affirmative care – The Society of Evidence Based Gender Medicine.
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