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Statement of Principles – The September Declaration
This document is intended to be a minimal set of principles that are commonly agreed to by all individuals and organizations participating in the Parents Rights Coalition of Canada.
While the interests of various participants may be broad, the coalition’s focus is on the rights and responsibilities of parents and legal guardians with respect to their children who are below the age of majority. We believe that parents and legal guardians have a responsibility to their children to be faithful stewards of their best interests, and “parental rights” are the basis for them to exercise this responsibility.
We regard “gender ideology” to be a set of highly controversial beliefs and values rooted in academic fields such as “queer theory”, “gender studies”, postmodernism, and neo-Marxism. The tenets of gender ideology are unscientific and antithetical to the beliefs and values of most Canadians. These include the ideas that children can be “born into the wrong body”, that there are more than two “genders”, that gender is “fluid”, that gender is a “social construct” unrelated to sex, that traditional values concerning sexual propriety are “oppressive”, and so forth. We reject all core tenets of “gender ideology”. These include the following:
We reject that “gender” is a set of socially constructed behaviours and is independent of sex.
Note: Our position is that stereotypical behavioural differences between men and women are simply the cultural manifestations of deeply rooted biological and neurological differences between the two sexes. These concepts are not independent of each other. Accordingly, we make no distinction between “gender” and “sex. We propose to eliminate the use of the word “gender” to avoid confusion.
We reject the assertion that there are more than two sexes, that “gender” is separate from sex, and related concepts such as “gender spectrum”, “non-binary genders”, “transgender”, etc. Note: Our position is that there are only two sexes defined as follows: Man/Male = Adult Human Male and Woman/Female = Adult Human Female.
Accordingly, we call for the removal of all references to “gender identity” and “gender expression” from all provincial and federal diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, and wherever it may be present, from the official K-12 educational curriculum as well.
Principle 1: “No government has ever proven itself a capable parent.”
Parents have the right to raise their children in accordance with their own traditional cultural, religious, or secular moral codes. Publicly funded schools have no authority to overrule parents’ rights in this regard. This means that parents must give permission for their children to participate in any contentious political, social, or cultural subject matter at any time. The default position for this type of participation for students must be “opt-in”.
Principle 2: “No secrets, parental consent is mandatory.”
We demand that schools adopt and vigorously enforce a “no secrets from parents” policy. Gender social affirmation at school is a serious psychotherapeutic intervention. It must never be conducted without parental approval. The provincial Ministries of Education must enforce this policy within the school system.
Principle 3: “We demand protection for girls’ sports.”
Boys must not be permitted to compete in competitive sports intended for females where male-specific physical advantages (strength, muscle mass, fast-twitch muscle fiber, bone density, etc.) result in an unfair competitive advantage and increased safety risks for female participants at the grade school and high school level.
Principle 4: “Affirmation cannot be dictated under penalty of law.”
We acknowledge that a small minority choose to present themselves as the opposite sex in terms of stereotypical dress and deportment. In a free country, they have the option to do so. This does not obligate the rest of society to affirm their choice. One’s self-proclaimed identity is a continuous negotiation with broader society which all Canadians must be free to accept or reject as they choose. Forced affirmation, including compelled or coerced speech, must not be dictated in our public schools. We likewise reject any attempt to force our children to use preferred pronouns or names they (or their parents) do not agree to.
Principle 5: “Public schools must be ideologically neutral.”
We call for an embrace of freedom of thought, respect for diversity of opinion, and principles of religious tolerance in public education. Schools must not promote, nor denounce, any religion(s) or secular ideological belief systems. We call for the removal of ideological symbols and forced celebration of days dedicated to various ideological social causes. On the matter of flags, we ask that only national flags and provincial or territorial flags be flown in our public schools anywhere on the school property.
Principle 6: “Sex-based rights must be respected.”
We demand that both sexes be prohibited from accessing spaces designated for the privacy and protection of the opposite sex regardless of how they self-identify. This includes all Canadian K-12 schools bathrooms/showers/changerooms, children’s camps, and overnight school trip accommodations, etc. Furthermore, we demand that all public schools and other public facilities have sex-based washroom options: girl’s washrooms, and separate boy’s washrooms. Sex-neutral washrooms as the only option, are not acceptable.
Principle 7: “There is no such thing as a transgender child.”
Teaching the idea that children are ever born in the wrong body (i.e.: one not matching their sex) is a blatant form of mental child abuse and a flagrant violation of the duty of fiduciary care schools have to all our children. We acknowledge that some children deal with gender dysphoria, and this must be addressed with compassion and the involvement of parents.
Principle 8: “Opt-out default for Comprehensive Sexuality Education programs.”
Some school boards and educators embed the core tenets of “gender ideology” into “anti bullying”, “DEI training”, and what is deemed “Comprehensive Sexuality Education” which differs from traditional sex education programs. This includes teaching “gender identity” and “gender expression” without presenting dissenting “gender critical” perspectives. As such, we demand that parental consent be required for all Comprehensive Sexuality Education and that it should be taught on an opt-in basis only where the opt-out option is the default choice.
Furthermore, no tenets of gender ideology should ever be shoehorned into classroom instruction, extracurricular activities, school posters/displays, or introduced by third-party trainers under any circumstance.
We demand that all school boards list all related training topics and provide electronic copies of all training materials pertaining to any “Comprehensive Sexuality Education” programs on their official websites so as to allow all these materials to be reviewed online by parents at any time.
Principle 9: “A moratorium on ‘gender-affirming medical care’ for minors.”
We call for an immediate moratorium on both “social gender transition” and so-called “gender-affirming medical care” for minors until such time as an impartial evidence-based review of gender medical practices (puberty blockers, hormones, surgery) similar to the UK “Cass Review” can be completed in Canada. Children do not have the brain development, maturity, wisdom, or life experience to fully appreciate the long-term consequences of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical procedures designed to emulate the appearance of the opposite sex. Social gender transition is the first step on the path toward medical transition for children and must be treated as a form of child abuse. Accordingly, we also call for the removal of “gender expression” and “gender identity” from the definition of “conversion therapy” under the criminal code of Canada given the impact on children.
September 28, 2023 Revision
Canadians are beginning to find their voice and say no to the regressive gender ideology in society.
“The reason these parents were protesting is simple. They do not want their children to learn that ‘everyone has a gender identity’, to be asked for their ‘pronouns’, or to be told they may have been ‘born in the wrong body’. Parents do not want their kids learning that their families are ‘bigoted’ or ‘abusive’ because they believe their children’s bodies are perfect just the way they are. They do not agree that it is possible to ‘identify’ as the opposite sex.
Yet this is precisely what is being taught in Canadian classrooms as part of the so-called SOGI (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) curriculum. Primary-school kids learn that ‘When babies are born, doctors and parents usually decide if the baby is a boy or girl’, but that ‘not everybody will grow up feeling like or identifying as a boy or a girl’. And they are told they should ‘look for clues’ that reveal a boy is really a girl.
Lesson plans for teachers suggest they ask pupils, ‘What does it mean to feel like a boy or to feel like a girl?’. A suggested activity in one lesson plan instructs teachers to ‘ask everybody to walk around the classroom and introduce themselves and ask each other what their names are and what pronouns they should use’.
These kinds of practices have been adopted in public schools across Canada, with zero input or consultation with parents or voters. Many have felt voiceless on these issues. Contacting our MPs and the media has proven fruitless. The One Million March offered the silent majority a chance to stand up and speak out.
While most of the rallies across Canada were enormously successful, the march I attended in Victoria, British Columbia was shut down prematurely.
I was informed, halfway through my speech, that the police had demanded my mic be cut. Counter-protesters had swarmed the area, aggressively pushing their way to the front of the rally, while screaming at and being physically aggressive towards the children, parents and grandparents in attendance. They then attempted to attack the stage. The police determined the situation was too dangerous and that they could no longer protect attendees, and so they shut down the rally, just 30 minutes in. Ironically, it is those claiming to advocate ‘love’ and ‘inclusivity’ who consistently use bullying, threats and violence to silence views they disapprove of.”
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.
Jonathan Kay writes on Canadians finally waking up to the harms of gender ideology and how it is in our institutions. It is a quick necessary read, go to the Quillette and read the whole thing.
“The most obvious answer is that this movement does real, observable harm, by forcing women to share prisons, rape-crisis centres, athletic leagues, locker rooms, and other vulnerable spaces with men. It also encourages children, many of them gay, autistic, or psychologically fragile due to bullying and underlying mental-health challenges, to indulge the gothic horror-movie delusion that they were “born in the wrong body,” and to embark on a lifetime regime of (dangerous and untested) drug treatments and body-disfiguring surgeries.
But there’s another factor at play, too: I don’t want to live in a society that gaslights its own citizens. The oft-repeated slogan that “trans women are women” simply isn’t true. Furthermore, everyone knows it isn’t true—including those who shout it the loudest. Like other slogans of this type, it’s an officially sanctioned lie. And once it becomes a matter of settled precedent that we can all be forced to submit to this kind of lie, many more of them are guaranteed to follow.”
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