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Skate Canada’s decision to boycott national and international events in Alberta is a masterclass in self-sabotage. By refusing to host competitions in the province over the Fairness and Safety in Sport Act—which restricts female categories to biological females—Skate Canada has effectively admitted that its commitment to “inclusion” means prioritizing the feelings of transgender-identifying males over the safety, fairness, and privacy of girls and women in sport. This isn’t progressive; it’s predatory, as it signals that the organization is willing to endanger female athletes rather than enforce categories based on biological reality.
The irony is staggering: Skate Canada claims to uphold “safe and inclusive sport,” yet by punishing an entire province, it excludes thousands of Alberta skaters from convenient high-level opportunities while virtue-signaling about inclusion. Alberta’s law, in effect since September 2025, protects female competitors from inherent physical advantages retained by biological males, a concern backed by basic physiology and echoed in growing international restrictions. Instead of adapting or advocating for open/mixed categories, Skate Canada chooses exclusion in the name of inclusion—revealing a captured institution more concerned with ideological purity than the integrity of women’s figure skating.
This move should serve as a wake-up call. Taxpayer-funded organizations like Skate Canada that actively harm women’s sports by boycotting provinces protecting female athletes deserve immediate defunding and reform. If they can’t support fair competition without discriminating against biological reality, they have no business governing Canadian skating. Alberta girls deserve better than an organization that treats their safety as optional.
On December 3, 2025, Calgary pastor Derek Reimer was arrested for breaching the conditions of his conditional sentence order after refusing to write a court-mandated letter of apology to a public library manager and members of the LGBTQ+ community. The apology stemmed from his earlier conviction for criminal harassment related to protests against Drag Queen Story Hour events at Calgary libraries in 2023, where he had confronted organizers and posted videos online.
Reimer, citing his sincerely held religious beliefs, argued that complying would constitute compelled speech in violation of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms; however, the court deemed his refusal a breach, leading to his immediate detention.At a bail hearing on December 5-6, 2025, no decision was reached on Reimer’s release, and he remains in custody awaiting a further hearing on Tuesday, December 9. The case highlights the extraordinary nature of the original sentencing requirement: court-ordered apologies are rare in Canadian criminal law and typically reserved for restorative justice or defamation contexts, not as a tool to enforce ideological conformity. By jailing a citizen for refusing to express remorse that contradicts his conscience, the justice system effectively punishes thought and belief rather than solely actions, raising serious concerns about state overreach.
This incident exemplifies growing authoritarian tendencies in Canada’s legal approach to dissent on cultural issues, where protections for freedom of expression and religion appear subordinated to enforcing compliance with progressive orthodoxies. Forcing individuals to voice insincere apologies—or face imprisonment—echoes compelled speech regimes in totalitarian systems, undermining the Charter’s guarantees and signaling that the government views certain religious convictions as incompatible with public order. As of December 6, 2025, Reimer’s continued detention without resolution further illustrates how such measures can be used to silence opposition through prolonged pre-trial incarceration.
Here are some reliable sources for readers seeking more details on Pastor Derek Reimer’s case, including the original protests, the court-ordered apology, his December 3, 2025 arrest for non-compliance, and the ongoing bail proceedings as of December 6, 2025:
- Original X post highlighting the case: https://x.com/RealMattA_/status/1997166177433321898 (Quotes journalist Chris Dacey’s update on the bail hearing delay.)
- Video update from the December 6 bail hearing (posted by
@chrisdacey
): https://x.com/chrisdacey/status/1997152423396204956 (Confirms no bail decision was reached and Reimer remains in custody until December 9.)
- Western Standard – Arrest coverage: https://www.westernstandard.news/news/watch-calgary-pastor-arrested-after-refusing-to-apologize-to-librarian/69520 (Includes details on the breach and compelled speech concerns.)
- Rebel News – Breaking arrest report: https://www.rebelnews.com/derek_reimer_arrested_after_refusing_court_ordered_apology (Features video of the arrest and background on the conditional sentence order.)
- Caldron Pool – Analysis of compelled speech: https://caldronpool.com/compelled-speech-canadian-pastor-arrested-for-refusing-to-issue-court-ordered-apology/ (Discusses Charter violations and Reimer’s religious objections.)
- LifeSiteNews – Recent developments: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadian-pastor-arrested-for-refusing-to-write-apology-to-librarian-who-hosted-drag-queen-story-hour/ (Covers the arrest and broader context of protests against drag events for children.)
This quote from@prof_curiosity on X: Piaget: The construction of learning
“Piaget viewed children as “little scientists” who actively construct knowledge by testing and refining mental schemas, most often through play. Through assimilation (fitting new experiences into existing schemas) and accommodation (adjusting schemas when they do not fit), driven by equilibration (resolving confusion), children progress through four stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.Development is a self-motivated process of making sense of the world. Adults naturally introduce their own schemas to children; most are well-meaning and beneficial. However, it is hard to imagine a more destructive schema for young children than that of ‘gender identity.’ Piaget’s theory explains how and why children adopt this adult shortcut to achieve equilibration.Simply it provides easy answers to difficult questions.What transgender ideology offers these playful child scientists is a highly self-destructive, adult schema (construct) wholly unsuitable for their developing, vulnerable minds. This schema, if pushed by significant adults, can easily be assimilated into a child’s learning patterns, providing ready made answers (equilibration) to questions the child would be years away from naturally asking; along with terrible, self-destructive answers to natural self-doubts. Thus, for a toddler girl: “Why do I prefer to play with boys’ things, etc.?” The inserted adult schema answers, “Because you are really a boy.” Of course the correct answer would be, “Because that is who you are” backed up with, “And you are perfect as you are – so carry on playing”.However transgenderism is not interested in children growing into well balanced adults. It targets vulnerable, especially autistic children, with undeveloped schemas who can be convinced that the way to achieve equilibration is to perform “being transgender”. It needs these (trans) children to provide cover for adult autogynephiles.This brilliant application of Piaget’s theory highlights why imposing adult “gender identity” concepts on children short-circuits their natural cognitive development—and why it’s especially harmful for vulnerable groups like autistic kids.”
Evidence backs this up: A 2023 systematic review and meta-analysis found a clear overlap between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and gender dysphoria/incongruence, with autistic youth far more likely to experience it, likely due to challenges with flexible schemas and social understanding.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35596023/The UK’s independent Cass Review (2024) went further: after rigorous systematic evidence reviews, it concluded the evidence for puberty blockers and hormones in minors is weak, with risks (e.g., bone density loss, fertility impacts) outweighing unproven benefits. It recommends extreme caution and holistic care over rapid affirmation.
Full report: https://cass.independent-review.uk/final-report/We must protect children’s natural exploration through play and affirm their bodies as they are. Imposing ideology that locks in confusion isn’t kindness—it’s harm. Prioritize evidence-based therapy and watchful waiting.
In a ruling that should alarm every woman—and indeed every citizen—who values free speech and the right to defend sex-based protections, Australian women’s rights advocate Kirralie Smith has been ordered to pay $95,000 in damages and issue a forced public statement for the “crime” of accurately describing biological males as men. Smith’s offence? Highlighting the participation of two transgender-identifying males in women’s football competitions and refusing to pretend that men can become women.
Kirralie Smith, director of Binary Australia, an organisation dedicated to affirming that there are only two sexes, was found guilty under New South Wales anti-vilification laws of unlawfully vilifying the individuals by referring to them with male pronouns and terms like “bloke.” She shared publicly available information from football clubs and raised legitimate concerns about fairness, safety, and the integrity of women’s sport. For this, a court has branded her words as inciting “hatred and serious contempt,” imposing a hefty financial penalty that will double if not paid within 28 days, alongside orders to remove posts and pin a court-mandated statement on her social media.This is not justice—it is the state-enforced erasure of women.
When a woman can be punished for stating the undeniable reality that no man can ever be a woman, we have reached a dystopian low. Women fought for decades to establish sex-based rights: single-sex sports, spaces, and services designed to protect female privacy, dignity, and fair competition. These protections exist precisely because biological sex matters—men, on average, retain physical advantages even after hormone treatments, and no amount of self-identification changes chromosomes, reproductive biology, or the lived experience of being female.Yet in modern Australia, courts are increasingly prioritising the feelings of a tiny minority over the rights of half the population.
Smith’s case echoes broader trends, such as the ongoing fallout from rulings like Tickle v Giggle, where biological reality is subordinated to gender identity claims. The message is clear: women must surrender their language, their boundaries, and their advocacy, or face ruinous consequences.What makes this particularly tragic is that Smith’s advocacy was not born of malice but of concern for women and girls. Males entering female sports displace women from teams, podiums, and scholarships. They compromise safety in contact sports. And when women speak up—as Smith did—they are silenced, fined, and forced to “confess” to thought crimes.
Kirralie Smith has vowed to appeal, declaring: “Nothing will steal my joy in knowing that I am a woman and no male ever will be. I am proud to stand for truth and reality.” Her courage is an inspiration. This ruling sets a dangerous precedent not just for activists, but for journalists, politicians, parents, and everyday women who dare to say the obvious: sex is real, immutable, and worth protecting.Women’s rights are not negotiable. They are not “inclusive” costumes for men to don. Until laws stop punishing women for naming reality, the fight must continue.
Support voices like Kirralie’s—because if they can come for her today, they can come for any of us tomorrow.
- Kirralie Smith’s original X post announcing the penalty (primary source):
https://x.com/KirralieS/status/1996731443264037335 - Binary Australia official statement on the vilification judgements (August 2025, detailing the guilty finding):
https://www.binary.org.au/vilification_judgements_in_full - Reduxx report on the penalty (women’s rights-focused outlet):
https://reduxx.info/australian-woman-ordered-to-pay-95000-to-two-trans-identified-males-playing-in-womens-football-for-misgendering/ - Rebel News report on the ruling and appeal vow:
https://www.rebelnews.com/women_s_rights_campaigner_fined_95k_vows_immediate_appeal - The Daily Declaration article on the fine and forced statement:
https://dailydeclaration.org.au/2025/12/05/kirralie-smith-fined/ - OUTinPerth report (LGBTQ+ media outlet confirming the $95,000 damages and constitutional finding):
https://www.outinperth.com/binary-leader-kirralie-smith-ordered-t-pay-95000-and-make-public-apology/ - Star Observer report (LGBTQ+ media outlet on the vilification finding and apology order):
https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/anti-trans-activist-kirralie-smith-ordered-to-pay-almost-100k-issue-public-apology-following-vilification-ruling/239923 - Equality Australia statement welcoming the ruling (trans advocacy perspective):
https://equalityaustralia.org.au/court-ruling-that-anti-trans-campaigner-unlawfully-vilified-two-trans-women-is-welcomed-by-equality-australia/
See Jonathan Kay’s X thread on the queering of outdoor education.
The British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) has introduced a framework termed “Queering Outdoor Education,” which integrates queer theory, drag pedagogy, and decolonial approaches into environmental learning. This curriculum comprises lessons that encourage students to interpret natural phenomena through the lens of fluid identities, anti-normative critique, and social justice. While the framework is promoted as fostering inclusivity and challenging colonial and heteronormative assumptions, it raises substantive concerns regarding developmental appropriateness, educational clarity, and the potential for early ideological enculturation.
Metaphor and Conceptual Instability
The initial lessons employ metaphor as a primary pedagogical tool. Students are encouraged to draw analogies between natural elements—such as clouds, logs, or plants—and human identities, emphasizing fluidity and anti-essentialist perspectives. While metaphor can be valuable in education, these lessons risk overextending conceptual abstraction, replacing concrete environmental observation with ideological instruction. For children, particularly in early or middle childhood, excessive abstraction can hinder cognitive development by conflating empirical phenomena with normative social and political constructs.
Additionally, the curriculum critiques conventional linguistic frames, including metaphors like “birds and the bees,” positioning them as instruments of colonial and heteronormative power. Such framing may introduce complex sociopolitical interpretations into contexts traditionally reserved for foundational biological and ecological learning, potentially overwhelming young learners.
Moralizing Nature and Identity
Subsequent lessons extend these metaphorical frameworks into moral and social instruction. Students are asked to emulate the perceived allyship of natural objects and to conceptualize human identities in terms of ecological hierarchies, categorizing queer identities as “native” and others as “invasive.” While intended to promote reflection on inclusion and belonging, these exercises risk essentializing human worth according to ideologically charged criteria, substituting experiential learning with prescriptive social norms. By conflating ecological systems with social hierarchies, the curriculum may foster confusion rather than ethical understanding, undermining both environmental literacy and social cohesion.
Sexualization and Performative Instruction
The later lessons introduce overtly sexualized and performative elements, including the celebration of non-reproductive animal behaviors and the incorporation of drag-based exercises into outdoor activities. While drag pedagogy emphasizes self-invention and challenges normative binaries, its application to children’s environmental education raises questions of age-appropriateness. Embedding explicit discussions of sexuality and performative gender in contexts intended to cultivate observation, curiosity, and engagement with nature may distract from core learning objectives and impose adult conceptual frameworks onto immature cognitive and moral development.
Implications for Pedagogy
The queering of outdoor education exemplifies a broader pedagogical tension between radical inclusivity and the developmental needs of children. Integrating complex adult theoretical frameworks into early environmental education risks destabilizing students’ conceptual understanding, substituting guided inquiry with ideological instruction. While well-intentioned, such approaches may inadvertently limit children’s capacity for independent exploration, critical reasoning, and unmediated interaction with the natural world. Educational practice promote the idea of equality, not equity, along with the preservation of developmental appropriateness and cognitive accessibility.
Glossary
- Queer Pedagogy: An educational approach that incorporates queer theory to challenge traditional assumptions about gender, sexuality, and identity.
- Drag Pedagogy: A subset of queer pedagogy emphasizing performance, self-invention, and the destabilization of normative social roles.
- Decolonial Education: Curriculum frameworks aimed at addressing and countering the legacies of colonialism, often by centering Indigenous perspectives.
- Anti-Normative Critique: A critical approach that questions conventional social, cultural, or gender norms.
- Cognitive Development: The mental growth and acquisition of knowledge, reasoning, and understanding in children.
- Ideological Enculturation: The process of instilling a particular worldview or set of political beliefs, often through education.
References
- British Columbia Teachers’ Federation. Queering Outdoor Education Newsletter. 2025.
- Lacandona, Gaia. Drag Pedagogy: Performance and Learning. 2018.
- Polukoshko, Jody. Queer and Decolonial Approaches to Outdoor Learning. BCTF publication, 2024.
- Sumara, Dennis. Alternative Pedagogies and Cognitive Development: A Critical Review. 2017.
Suggested Readings Critiquing Queer Pedagogy
- Lindsay, James & McEwen, Bob. Critical Pedagogy and the Limits of Ideological Education. 2021.
- Wood, Peter. The Manipulation of Youth: How Ideology Enters the Classroom. 2019.
- Scholes, Robert. Childhood, Ideology, and the Limits of Social Theory. 2018.
- Davies, Belinda. Rethinking Radical Curricula: Balancing Innovation with Developmental Appropriateness. 2020.
The future of queer theory in public life will be defined by tension — between liberation and dissolution, between critique and nihilism. As the concept of queer migrates from academic theory into social activism, its anti-normative roots have begun to destabilize not only rigid hierarchies but also the shared frameworks that hold civil society together. Recognizing this dynamic is essential if we hope to preserve the moral and cultural balance that allows both freedom and order to coexist.
At its core, queer theory began as a revolt against imposed boundaries: gender binaries, heteronormative expectations, and cultural assumptions about propriety. But when “resistance to norms” becomes the sole moral compass, society loses its capacity to define virtue, responsibility, or even truth. The queer ethos—“whatever is at odds with the normal”—risks transforming from an emancipatory critique into a perpetual revolution against coherence itself.
Radical activists now extend this logic beyond sexuality, framing any attempt to establish limits or standards—biological, moral, or linguistic—as acts of “hegemonic oppression.” Efforts to balance queer aspirations with reasonable critique are thus recast as betrayal. This rhetorical maneuver shields the ideology from correction: dissent becomes proof of guilt.
Yet a healthy society requires shared reference points. Boundaries around meaning, family, education, and biology are not inherently oppressive—they are stabilizing norms that protect continuity while still allowing reform. To restore equilibrium, we must distinguish between compassionate inclusion and ideological dissolution. Supporting human dignity does not require denying human nature.
The road ahead will be difficult. Reintroducing critical engagement into discussions of gender and identity will be framed as reactionary or “anti-queer.” But clarity is not cruelty. The challenge is to defend open debate and the material basis of truth while affirming genuine freedom for individuals to live authentically. A future where queerness and normalcy coexist in mutual respect, rather than mutual negation, is possible—but only if the conversation itself remains open.
Closing Summary & Series Links
To help readers navigate the series and access each part easily.
- Part 1 — What Does “Queer” Mean?
Introduces David Halperin’s foundational definition of “queer” as opposition to societal norms and explores what it means to have an “identity without an essence.” - Part 2 — Insights from Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Examines how Butler and Sedgwick expanded queer theory by deconstructing gender and sexuality, framing queer as a disruptor of cultural meaning. - Part 3 — The Unraveling of Society and the Quest for Balance
Analyzes how queer politics, when detached from social reality, can erode shared meaning, and proposes a framework for restoring balance between critique and stability.
How did queer move from academic theory to a political movement that challenges the foundations of society itself? This piece traces the rise of queer politics—its rejection of norms, its destabilizing effects on social cohesion, and how we might restore balance between personal liberation and shared moral order.
In earlier parts of this series, we explored how David Halperin, Judith Butler, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick defined queer as resistance to norms, a deconstruction of identity, and a fluid space of meaning. What began as a radical academic critique of social conformity has since evolved into a cultural and political movement with far-reaching effects.
Today, queer no longer resides in seminar rooms—it animates public policy, education, and identity politics. But in leaving theory for activism, the term’s oppositional nature has escaped its intellectual bounds, producing not only liberation but also a kind of cultural entropy: a systematic unmooring of shared social meaning.
From Theory to Politics: Queer as Permanent Revolution
Queer theory’s original intent was analytical—to question how society constructs categories like man, woman, normal, and deviant. In politics, however, queer became a mandate to dismantle norms altogether.
What Halperin called an “identity without an essence” turned into an activism without limits—one that views all boundaries, including biological sex or family structure, as oppressive fictions. This logic fuels a form of cultural revolutionism, in which dismantling social stability is seen as a moral good in itself.
In queer politics, there are no stable endpoints—only endless opposition. Marriage, gender, education, and even language are treated as battlegrounds for deconstruction. But where theory sought critique, politics now demands compliance with rebellion—a paradox in which resistance becomes dogma and moral relativism becomes orthodoxy.
The Unraveling Effect: When Everything Becomes “Queer”
The activist expansion of queer has dissolved its boundaries. Once a critique of exclusion, it now risks becoming a totalizing lens through which all social order appears suspect.
Institutions that once grounded shared life—family, religion, law, science—are increasingly framed as “heteronormative” or “cisnormative” systems of oppression. The result is not freedom but fragmentation, as the concept of “normativity” itself is recast as injustice.
This produces an untenable social paradox: a society that cannot define normality cannot define harm, health, or truth. When every structure is suspect, moral and civic coherence erode. A politics that celebrates perpetual queering thus becomes a politics of disintegration, unable to build or sustain the very freedoms it claims to advance.
Restoring Balance: Queer Aspirations and Reasonable Critique
Despite this, not all is lost. The queer impulse—to challenge hypocrisy, to broaden empathy, to question power—is valuable. The problem lies not in critique but in absolutizing critique—turning deconstruction into dogma.
Restoring balance requires three things:
- Reaffirming the material basis of human life.
A humane society must recognize biological reality, family structure, and civic order as real—not oppressive myths. Identity is socially shaped, but it is not infinitely malleable. - Distinguishing moral reform from moral anarchy.
Social change is just when it improves justice, not when it destroys coherence. Liberation without moral boundaries breeds confusion, not freedom. - Reviving liberal pluralism.
A society that allows dissent, but also values shared truth, can accommodate queer critique without succumbing to nihilism. We can defend individual freedom while preserving the cultural scaffolding that makes freedom meaningful.
The task is not to “abolish” queer politics but to discipline its insights—to channel its challenge to conformity into dialogue rather than destruction. As with all revolutions of thought, the test of queer theory is whether it can evolve from rebellion into renewal.
Key Takeaways
- 1. Queer politics began as critique but now rejects all norms, turning opposition itself into ideology.
- 2. The loss of shared meaning leads to social fragmentation, as institutions become targets rather than foundations.
- 3. Balance can be restored by grounding freedom in material reality, moral boundaries, and pluralist debate.
References
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge, 1990.
Halperin, David M. Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography. Oxford University Press, 1995.
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Epistemology of the Closet. University of California Press, 1990.
Paglia, Camille. Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson. Yale University Press, 1990.
Pluckrose, Helen, and Lindsay, James. Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody. Pitchstone Publishing, 2020.
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