You guys, Canada goes hard in the paint with their pro-mutilation stance on trans issues, and it's beyond my comprehension, but unfortunately I must share it with you.
Example of the day:
Yes, published on The Lord's Day of all days. "It's a privilege, not a right, to know your kid's gender identity." This is beyond dystopian sci-fi, beyond parody — this is straight up the world we live in and it's scary.
Let's jump right in and see what this author's all about. First things first:
My son, Zack, is transgender. He told us — nonchalantly at bedtime — three years ago. Because he's only 11, so far his transition has been strictly social: new pronouns, new clothes, new haircut, new name. With few exceptions, it's been as nothingburger as it sounds.
By the time he has his first appointment at the SickKids gender clinic in August 2024, he'll be 12 and a half and we'll have been on the wait-list for 18 months. If, four years into his transition, he chooses gender affirming medication, it will not be an impulsive decision.
Transing a kid at 8 years old ✔️
And as if it wasn't enough to sterilize a child, here's how Julie feels when others don't trans their kids.
As an urban, liberal, agnostic Canadian, the hardest part of parenting a trans kid has been watching the anti-trans groundswell — particularly in the U.K and the U.S. As of this month, 22 U.S. states have enacted laws or policies banning gender affirming care for youth up to age 18 — despite evidence that this care does more good than harm.
I've cried often for those kids and their parents and I've cried for fear these baseless laws will make their way north of the border.
Terrible. Can you believe there are folks out there who don't want to sterilize their own children? Some crazy people in this world, I tell ya!
Julie then mentions, with a visible frown, some new laws popping up in Canada where a few provinces are actually requiring kids to receive parental consent in order to transition before sixteen.
THE HORROR!!!
And as for why it is a privilege, not a right, for you to know your kid's gender identity, this is all Julie puts forward:
But not all kids have the luxury of an LGBTQ+-tolerant home. According to the Trevor Project's 2022 National (U.S.) Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health, fewer than one in three transgender and non-binary youth find their home to be gender-affirming.
And here in Canada, hate crimes targeting people for their sexual orientation rose by 60 per cent in Statistics Canada's most recent Hate Crimes Report versus its previous one. It's a hard truth that some kids live with parents who are homophobic and transphobic; in the worst cases, abusively so. No province should be making policies to forcibly out gender nonconforming kids to these parents.
If you truly are the sort of parent to support your kid's gender identity, you don't need a policy to codify your right to do so. You simply need to be open, kind, caring, and create a safe space for your kid to be themself. If you do that, they'll share their gender identity with you before they share it with their school.
But not everyone is that sort of parent. So those of us who are need to band together to make sure the most important rights in this discussion — the rights of children to freely express their gender — are upheld and uplifted.
In short, it's a child's choice - not his or her parents - as to whether or not he she get sterilized. Plain and simple, the kids know better than you. You should just stand by and watch as your shot at grandchildren goes down the drain with their new "gender-affirming care" that butchers their bodies.
These people are sick, dude, and they need help. We gotta try, somehow, to help these people. It's too easy to simply hate them for what they're doing.
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