Press release by Gender Dysphoria Alliance Canada and TReVoices
July 23, 2021
Gender Dysphoria Alliance Canada and TReVoices (Trans Rational Educational Voices) have been accused of being anti-LGBT hate organisations by high profile Canadian trans activist Morgane Oger.
Both organisations are run by trans men.
GDAC is an organisation that advocates for those with Gender Dysphoria, using an evidence-based understanding of our condition. We use storytelling of our lived experiences to educate about what Gender Dysphoria is, including the different types of GD, because each type has different needs. This evidence-based approach has been overshadowed in recent years by activists who wish to replace an evidence-based understanding with a cultural-political narrative. We believe that is harmful.
TReVoices is an organisation that aims to educate about the realities of medically transitioning, also grounding its activism in peer-reviewed evidence and lived experiences. Trans adults who have been through these procedures don’t believe we were adequately informed about what these procedures would be like to go through, what complications we would experience or what outcomes we could expect. TReVoices asserts that an informed consent approach is meaningless if trans people aren’t being properly informed and, given the best available evidence, asserts that these procedures should not be performed on minors.
Trans men have a unique relationship with women and children, because we are biologically female, have lived a large portion of our lives as female, and we have children of our own.
Both GDAC and TReVoices were among dozens of signatories of a recent letter by the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) to the United Nations. The UN had sought feedback as a part of its process to develop international policy on LGBT rights. The request made in the letter we signed was that the “Gender Theory Framework” not be used as a part of international law. This framework is not based in evidence. It’s a political, rhetorical device used by some trans activists. We believe this framework is harmful because it grossly misrepresents what Gender Dysphoria is and undermines sex-based rights. It is a political fiction, and we take exception that activist such as Morgane Oger are promoting this rhetoric on behalf of all trans people, LGB people and women, at the Provincial, Federal and International level, as though we are all in agreement with that narrative. We are not.
Because we have situated ourselves, as trans men, differently than how Morgane wishes to conceptualise the trans and LGB experience, she is resorting to slander, bullying and cancellation tactics against us. She has made threats towards GDAC’s Founder, Aaron Kimberly through social media, posting Aaron’s employer’s contact information online, and has now taken that into the real world, having gone to the media with a complaint that Aaron’s employer is somehow involved in GDAC’s “hate propaganda”.
Trans men have had to tolerate this kind of abuse and intimidation in the community for years by those like Morgane Oger. Morgane has built a political career for herself by silencing and intimidating other members of the community who wish to express their own views on matters which directly impact us.
Morgane has been directly involved in the tabling of Bill C6 and other Canadian laws which impact our lives as transgender people and the kinds of care was receive.
We would like our voices in this matter heard, and we are available to provide additional information.
Continued at: www.gdalliancecanada.com/post/press-release
(Excellent website and resources BTW!)