This is such an amazing rendition of his Sonata in D major. Toe tapping Baroque mastery!
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.”
The medical establishment in Ireland is being led away from evidence based medicine by the gender ideologues. Nothing good can come of it.
“This week another expert in his field offered a considered opinion and he has been studiously ignored. At various times in recent years, his expertise has attracted personal abuse. His credentials are unimpeachable but the problem is he is bearing inconvenient truths at a time when such truths are considered to be more trouble than they’re worth.
Professor Donal O’Shea is well known for his media contributions on obesity. He is the HSE’s national clinical lead on obesity but he also works as an endocrinologist in the National Gender Service within the executive. He has worked for over twenty-five years within the area of gender dysphoria. Last weekend he told the that he and his colleague, psychiatrist Paul Moran, are alarmed that the HSE is trying to set up an “activist led” gender service which will be “dangerous for patients”. The HSE is currently advertising for a clinical lead in the National Gender Service but bizarrely prior experience is not a prerequisite.”
Better to stop it before it takes root my Irish friends. The damage it has done to children here in Canada is an ongoing tragedy.
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.
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