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Fantastic article, as usual. I believe it's paywalled, so here is an extract. So sorry if this has been already posted, I didn't see it.
More seriously, Canada is currently in the process of pushing through Bill C-6, legislation that, if passed, would criminalize conversion therapy. ‘Conversion therapy’, to most, implies the outdated practice of trying to turn gay people straight. But in this case, Bill C-6 has lumped in ‘gender identity’. This will criminalize therapists and medical professionals who don’t take the ‘affirmative’ approach to kids identified as ‘transgender’. In other words, those who do not ‘affirm’ a child’s newly proclaimed ‘gender identity’ (putting them on a path to transition which includes puberty blockers, hormones and surgery) could be guilty of a criminal offense.
This kind of legislation should terrify you. No child’s life and body should be destroyed in this way; they are too young to understand the long-term consequences of puberty blockers and testosterone treatment. Minors are not equipped to decide that they never want to reproduce, have breasts, go through puberty (a necessary part of developing properly) or enjoy sex as adults — all consequences of the puberty blockers and hormones given to so-called ‘trans kids’.
No child should be told that because they don’t conform to sexist gender roles they must not ‘really’ be the sex they are. No adult should be imposing faith-based ideologies on children, like the idea that it is possible to have a ‘wrong body’ or that there is such a thing as being a male on the outside but a ‘female’ on the inside. But because ‘gender identity’ has been conflated with sexual orientation — folded into the LGBTQ rainbow to position anyone who does not support trans activism unquestioningly as ‘hateful’ and ‘harmful’, many well-meaning Canadians have been duped.
Canadians are famous for being polite, but we have become too polite for our own good. Our niceness has taken a dark turn when we fail to support freedom of speech unequivocally; refuse to stand up against harmful, nonsensical doctrines; and threaten to criminalize professionals who are troubled by a trend seeing thousands of girls across North America cutting off their healthy breasts and taking drugs that sterilize them. Our open-mindedness and fear of causing ‘offense’ has lead us to adopt policies across the country that allow males to be transferred to female prisons, compete in sport against women and girls, and enter women’s transition house and shelters.
Our desire to avoid hurt feelings is endangering actual people. We’ve begun to persecute people for sharing unpopular viewpoints. Perhaps it’s time to stand up for our right to ‘offend’, lest we end up in a society that protects feelings over life, liberty and constitutional rights. The truth is not always polite, but it is imperative.
Meghan Murphy is a writer in Vancouver and the host of The Same Drugs.
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Meghan Muphy in the Spectator: The unbearable niceness of Canadians is driving us to destruction
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