Eva Kurilova on twitter writes on how harmful gender ideology is for children.
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If the option to become a boy had been presented to me as a child, I would have become obsessed with the idea and believed I’d never be happy if I didn’t do it. This would have been encouraged by adults like@JanisIrwin,@JyotiGondek, and@RachelNotley with no concern about whether such a fixation was good for my mental health or my health and happiness in the future.
Such people care only about appearing progressive and compassionate rather than about having difficult conversations and risking unpopularity, which actual compassion often entails. The rhetoric around this issue would probably even lead me to believe that I would end up committing suicide if not allowed to pursue this path. In fact, up until my late 20s I often sometimes wondered if I’d one day wake up suicidal about not transitioning, since the messaging was that that’s what girls and women like me were supposed to do.
Think about how abhorrent it is to put these thoughts into the mind of a child and think about how heartless it is to tell them once they are older and regretful that it was all their choice and therefore all their fault. But, instead, people like those mentioned above and others are raging and even crying about the policies proposed by
@ABDanielleSmith that would ensure such a thing doesn’t happen. It is completely upside down.
This is a mockery of the kind of care and concern society is supposed to show to its children. It’s “give kids what they want or they will kill themselves.” It’s narcissistic abuse and adult temper tantrums rolled into one. It’s something that these so-called adults will be trying to live down and pretend they never did in a few short years when they’ve moved on to the next virtue signal of the day. It’s pathetic and morally bereft.
Last November, the Post ran a column by transwoman Julia Malott who allegedly supports my right to free expression but simultaneously believes that my “persona” has devolved and that I’ve become divisive and resentful. The devolution, she wrote, occurred during my three-year-and-counting legal battle with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives over my political speech on women’s rights and the binary nature of human sex.
I could lose my nursing license and job because I said that males can never become females. I am resentful and I have changed after facing years of legal, professional, and personal abuses — but I haven’t devolved.Twenty years ago, no one would have batted an eye if a health care professional said that only women can give birth, or that women do not have penises. Today? You’ll get hauled into a disciplinary tribunal for daring to say so. And just because I’ve insisted on loudly repeating these facts — it’s obvious that human males don’t birth offspring, whatever gender-obsessed “queer” activists think — I am called divisive, by detractors and supporters alike. That’s wrong. What’s divisive is our culture, with its increasingly pathological aversion to basic truths.I’ve tried to keep myself a bulwark against the delusions and despotism of our times. I admit that I’ve abandoned any pretence of politeness, but my message — like the truth — has never changed. Nor will it. And nor should I hold myself to an arbitrary standard of politeness so as not to offend those who either hate the truth, or believe that Canada’s sanity will be restored only if we hold courtly discussions about real-time crises. That won’t work.
The situation in Canada is dire; we are well beyond the point of change making via raising our hands to speak before whimpering politely towards a cacophony of rainbow-adorned tyrants. There are sexual predators that have been transferred from men’s to women’s prisons based on “gender identity” rather than anatomy. The same is true of rape shelters. Those born as males are competing in women’s sports categories. Hundreds of underage Canadian girls are being greenlighted for double mastectomies because they do not wish to be girls. Our health-care system continues to medicalize and transition gender non-conforming youth, despite the fact that other countries have realized this is a medical scandal not based on sound — or even any — evidence.
Canada’s self-identification policies, flowing from gender identity legislation, have enabled 50-year-old transwoman Melody Wiseheart, who began swimming under that name in 2019, to compete against and undress in the same changing room as little girls and teens. And for Kayla Lemieux to wear obscenely large prosthetic breasts with protruding nipples while teaching high school students. Tara Desousa, known pedophile, rapist, and murderer, transitioned while in prison and now resides in a B.C. prison that runs a mother-baby program.
Nothing I’ve ever said or written is as “divisive” as what is happening to Canadian women and children; and the “division,” again, occurs along the line of the rightfully outraged versus those who are intolerant of the naked truth.
Regulated professionals like me, or Jordan Peterson, are being sanctioned, punished, defamed, and censored for following truth, evidence, and our conscience — whether we are anodyne or not. And our court system, as Peterson has shown, may not afford any remedy. At this juncture, trying not to be “divisive” with our words is no different than waving a white flag. I refuse to equivocate over or sanitize the truth — and the provocation of an extremist minority is, to me, an acceptable side effect of my refusal to do so. They’re mad? So be it. I’m mad too.
Malott wrote that she “was struck by a sense of lost potential” and saw me as someone she could “possibly envisaged as a friend” — if only I hadn’t become so bitter and devolved as a result of my free speech battle. Well, I’m not fighting to make friends or hold ineffectual conversations.
I’ve unwittingly become the public face of this fight for women and children in Canada. I can’t afford to be timid. I won’t take pains to make winding, inoffensive arguments about whether women should be allowed to keep their sex-based rights, or children their bodily integrity and fertility. The answer is obvious. Canadians need to listen and to understand quickly. There is no time to be moderate. There is no time to baby the feelings of people who are horrified by truth in plain language.
Amy Hamm is a freelance writer and healthcare professional. She is co-founder of the nonpartisan Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights (caWsbar).
It is important that news like this gets proper exposure and to illustrate how the MSM is not doing its job. Plus it gets it on Facebook around the stupid news censorship in Canada.
By now, every Canadian has heard the news out of Alberta. Although depending where you get your news, you’ve either heard that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has announced a forthcoming genocide camp for LGBT youth or—for those who’ve not lost their grip on reality—you’ve heard that Smith is taking an evidence-based stance on transgender healthcare for minors, protecting female athletes in sports, and ensuring parents have the right to safeguard the well-being and best interests of their children.
There will be no more puberty blockers or cross sex hormones for children under 16. No gender surgeries—such as double mastectomies or penile inversions—for minors under 18. No more teachers changing under-16 students’ names or pronouns without parental permission. No more leaving parents in the dark about gender-identity school lessons. Parents can continue to opt their children out. For female athletes, they will have sports leagues of their own: no males can identify their way in.
Screenshot from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s gender law announcement video.
Smith is bringing safety, fairness, parental rights, and reason back to her province. She is bringing Albertans exactly what the majority of Canadians support, as per a recent Angus Reid poll that shows parents expect to be notified if their kids suddenly identify as transgender at school. (What loving parent wouldn’t want to be?) Similarly, a 2021 poll reveals that Canadians want sports segregated by sex, not gender self-identification.
There’s no denying that Smith’s new legislation is reflective of majority Canadian sentiment. So naturally, Canada’s activists and hard left, plus their sycophant Liberal and NDP bootlickers—fringe minority that they are—had a Chernobyl-level nuclear meltdown, with a fallout zone well beyond Alberta’s borders.
Notably, our national broadcaster trotted out vile misogynist Fae Johnstone, slapped an “expert” label on the transgender-identified male, and hit “publish” on another gaslighting piece of state propaganda. They quoted Johnstone on Smith’s new rules: “This is interfering ideologically in the provision of medically necessary healthcare for trans and gender diverse young people.” He also claimed the new legislation “flies in the face of establishing medical best practice.”
All of what Johnstone said is demonstrably—and infuriatingly—false. The only ideology at play is his. Gender “affirming” healthcare for minors is being globally outed as the medical scandal that it is, with numerous Scandinavian and European countries implementing restrictions or bans on the treatment of children. The World Health Organization just released trans care guidelines that do not include standards for youth or minors; they cite a lack of evidence to support childhood transition guidelines.
Persons like Fae Johnstone are desperate to bury the truth. When not lying via our government-funded media platform, Johnstone can be found trolling and threatening women with differing political opinions online. “I actually do want a political environment in which TERFs are so vilified they don’t dare speak their views publicly,” he once wrote. Because if you can’t beat them, shut them down.
And then there’s Canada’s Special Advisor to the Prime Minister on LGBTQ2 issues, Randy Boissonnault, who took the good news from Alberta particularly poorly. In a presser, the man insisted that joining your school’s chess club or debate team is no different than changing your gender and going on Lupron, the puberty-blocking drug used off-label for trans kids and also to castrate sex offenders.
“Nobody calls your parents when you join the debate team. But now, if somebody thinks you’re questioning or queer, they’re gonna tell the teacher and the teacher’s gonna call the parents,” said Boissonnault. “This is our NATO moment as an LGBTQ community. An attack on one of our communities is an attack on us all.” Boissonnault, a gay man, seems blissfully unaware that childhood medical transition is disproportionately inflicted upon gender-confused kids who, if left alone to go through puberty, would simply end upgay. What Canada is doing to “trans” kids, in many cases, is “transing the gay away”; it’s a modern form of conversion therapy. It must stop. We are an international embarrassment on several fronts, most appallingly so for ignoring the global demise of gender ideology and destroying the bodies and minds of untold numbers of vulnerable children.
In response to Premier Smith, legal group Egale Canada has called her proposed legislation “unconstitutional” and claims they will launch a court challenge. It’s possible that the federal government will, too. Minister Boissonnault is promoting a rally to protest Smith’s proposed changes at the Edmonton Legislature this weekend.
Premier Smith is not backing down. Good for her. Canada needs an enormous dose of reality, and our petulant gender activists need their tantrums to go ignored. Let them stamp and shout and lie—the adults in the country are finally having a conversation.
I was a strong proponent of the Harm Reduction strategy until more data has come out about its effectiveness and benefits for society versus other methods. There might be a case for Harm Reduction, but as currently implemented in BC it is a like a 4 legged stool that is missing three legs -harm reduction, law enforcement, prevention and treatment – just focusing on harm reduction and not the other areas is a recipe for social disaster.
The Alberta rehabilitation model has been modestly more successful in dealing with the problems of addictions. Both systems require overlapping programs working together to get people out of the drug abuse loop – whether Alberta has been more successful in coordinating the synergy of anti-addiction programs or that rehabilitation programs are just more effective remains to be seen. Initial data points to the Alberta method being more successful.
The divergent policies and politics of B.C. and Alberta have played a major role in determining the public perception of Canada’s opioid crisis. Left-leaning media outlets have tended to laud B.C.’s harm reduction as being more compassionate, while conservative voices point to Alberta’s focus on treatment as more practical and realistic. What Canada had lacked until recently was an impartial, data-driven assessment of the two competing systems.
Advantage Alberta: The Stanford Network on Addiction Policy’s 2023 report (depicted above) observes that, “Alberta is currently experiencing a reduction in key addiction-related harms,” while “Canada overall, and BC in particular, is not yet showing the progress that the public and those impacted by drug addiction deserve.” At middle, a typical street scene in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside; at bottom, a therapy session at Alberta’s new Red Deer Recovery Community. (Sources of photos: (middle) Ted McGrath, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED; (bottom) EHN Canada)
That problem was partially solved last year with the release of a report from the U.S.-based Stanford Network on Addiction Policy. Entitled Canada’s Health Crisis: Profiling Opioid Addiction in Alberta & British Columbia, the document offers an even-handed review of the differing policies of the two provinces, summarizes the latest available data (which it criticizes as inadequate) and cautiously evaluates the results. B.C., the report notes, emphasizes harm reduction, “safe supply” of illicit drugs, decriminalization of possession and reduction of addiction stigma. Alberta, by contrast, is focusing on “investment in rehabilitation beds and spaces, such as therapeutic communities,” while moving away from “safe supply” of opioids and instead providing addicts with medications.
Using these differences as a natural experiment, the Stanford report comes to a few key conclusions. First, it observes “a lack of policy innovation in BC on the issue of drug addiction.” Obsessive attention to harm reduction appears to have blinded politicians and public health officials to the longer-term consequences of their favoured policy. “Enforcement against drug crime has [been] reduced in recent years,” the report notes, “indicating a general lessening of criminal justice enforcement against drug offences in Canada during the escalating health crisis of opioid addiction.”
Second, “Of the two provinces studied for this report, Alberta is currently experiencing a reduction in key addiction-related harms.” The province’s rate of overdose deaths declined by 17 percent from 2021 to 2022 (B.C.’s remained almost unchanged), although it was still Alberta’s second-worst year on record. Using the most recent data available, the Stanford researchers point to B.C.’s higher death rate as suggestive of the two approaches’ relative effectiveness: “Our research indicates that Canada overall, and BC in particular, is not yet showing the progress that the public and those impacted by drug addiction deserve.”
This is happening right now ladies and gentlemen, the unreality that is transgender ideology is tearing apart families and destabilizing children across the US and Canada. The full piece from the Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans Substack.
I have witnessed since COVID the power of woke influence you have over your younger brother and sister, so I am pleading that you realize that, with this great power, comes great responsibility to protect them.
I would never deny that you are a terrific big sister, and that you are their chosen mother, but the fact that you are not a mother is why you can’t fully understand my primal protective instincts and can’t see how important it is to understand all aspects of anything that threatens your vulnerable offspring.
I must accept that you are a true believer in all things Social Justice, and I respect that you are an adult and capable of choosing whatever values you want to hold as the world culture revolves. So, I don’t expect to change your mind about every worldview we see differently, but this is too important not to try and unite for the best outcome for those we both love.
Being born at the end of 60’s’, growing up in the 80’s, becoming your mother in 90’s, (then blessed twice more in 2000’s), I admit I ignorantly didn’t pay enough attention to how the world was changing. I believed I was progressive, but believing natural biology isn’t real and that we can be our own creator, is not my idea of progress.
I absolutely accept all my children unconditionally, regardless of who they love or how they present. My son can wear anything and love anyone he wants, but my red flag, mama bear, gut instinct alarm goes off when it involves a lifelong drug dependency, high possibility for serious health issues, potential early death and devastating regret.
I accept that our generational differences may be too big to bridge, and we have completely opposite views of what the future should look like, and as a result of that, my motherly guidance is not wanted or respected by any of you. So, I have no other option but to pray that God and you will protect them, by sharpening your senses on the real dangers lurking in plain sight. Meanwhile, all I can do is send you my love and light and tell you that I will always be here whenever you do want me. I will never abandon you.
My heart breaks that you choose to think that I am the greatest threat to their wellbeing, and that you must protect them from my so-called dangerous outdated perspectives. No wonder you are struggling with your own mental health burdens. I would never want to create more anxiety for you, but I am begging that you take responsibility for your influential position and truthfully ask the question “What if there is something more to it?”
I’m certain that if only you could open up to consider different perspectives, you’ll see that there is a much bigger picture. And with that new understanding you will feel a weight lifted that will greatly improve your own mental stability, and also do a great service to your younger siblings, by being fully informed, without prejudice.
I know that you are very kind and compassionate and you would never knowingly contribute to harming anyone. So, I am asking you to at least consider that these issues, especially trans identity, is not a simple black and white situation about acceptance and inclusion or breaking down oppressive barriers to progress. There are so many contractive, yet connected moving parts to this very serious issue, and as the data mounts, we are all learning more about the tragic reality of irreversible damages, suffered by gender nonconforming youth in medical care.
I am asking you to listen to the many detransitioners brave enough to speak out and to the many caring and knowledgeable professionals who are sounding alarms about their serious concerns regarding the harmful direction our society has moved. You should be aware of how the issue is unfolding and reshaping. My hope is that Canada soon takes the same direction as some other countries, stops medicalized affirmative model, and changes to a non-medicalized therapy first framework as the standards of care for Gender Dysphoria sufferers of all ages.
I am very concerned that you three, and many others, are being misguided by the so-called experts and online sources you have chosen to trust. I know that your brother is an adult and that this is his experience to navigate and I accept that I have no control over his path, but I can see that you do, your influence is heard and respected. They both trust you unconditionally. I do love how much you love each other, (I must have done something right).
When he eventually must accept truth, that biology does matter and his issues can’t be simply cured by drugs, surgery or a new name, he will need your support to be based in reality and not ideology. His struggles with identity/ mental health, managing autism or maybe deeper physiological symptoms (AGP), or understanding/accepting his sexuality, will still exist, so he needs honest support that will accept him as he is without any pressure to change anything to fit in anywhere, or disappoint anyone he looks up to, like you.
Maybe quoting a male that is rabidly misogynistic for your attack ad isn’t a keen strategy? But of course, throwing Canadian women under the bus is nothing new for this government.
Our federal election cannot come to soon. I sorely need to see the activist Left out of power here in Canada.
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