The State of Things in Canada

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A story from Unherd about the state of gender ideology now in Canada. Whic is now about the best example to look to if you want to see what happens when no one puts the breaks on legislating on this stuff:

https://unherd.com/thepost/canadas-trans-activism-goes-into-overdrive/

Hmm, can we think of any other situation where Canada’s government was so supportive of actions which removed fertility and shortened the lives of indigenous people?

We were intending to move to Vancouver at one point. We changed our plans - there was no way I was having dd grow up with this shit

I saw this article....and couldn't bring myself to post it. It's too fucking depressing.

And on that cheery note, here's another article about Canada by Mary Harrington that makes a depressing companion piece

https://unherd.com/thepost/canadas-suicide-hotline-reveals-justin-trudeaus-dystopia/

Oh, Canada 😔

This is so batshit, but "let them speak". I nearly moved to Canada twice as a young woman. Glad I didn't.

I don't understand how Canada got it so wrong. It used to be a lovely place to be. The people I know there are just increasingly cynical and resentful and even the moderates hate Trudeau with a passion.

Wait until the next election.

The backlash isn't going to be pretty.

People are increasingly cynical, but also still largely scared to say anything publicly it seems.

I had not seen that Mary Harrington article, but it's really interesting, and a different take on the whole thing. I really do think that to understand what's going on, we need to look beyond gender ideology. It's a small part of a bigger movement.

The Conservatives are almost certain to get in next election barring a real surprise, which means Pierre Poliviere, who I am not crazy about, he is much to inclined to use issues to make a fuss rather than to fix them, and to blame everything on too much government. Kind of a one tool, one solution guy. And I am not convinced he is actually smart.

The University of Toronto plans to commemorate the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre where a misogynist killed fourteen women (because they took STEM places for men) by having a talk on transmisogyny. The talk will cover the rising misogyny against trans women and queer women globally.

No trans woman has been killed in Canada since 2019, and that killing does not seem to have been motivated by transmisogyny.

This made me think, again, of the colonisation of Women's Country and the way everything in it is being changed by the colonists, from history (Joan of Arc was trans) to how citizenship is defined (not based on birth but on loving high heels and dresses etc) to what language can be spoken (wombcarriers, vulva people etc.).

And now even in what type of violence (even if it is much less in reality) must be highlighted in these memorial events.

There seems to be some of that going on from a lot of directions, Nepeta. In some cases it seems to work both ways. Gender issues are trying to muscle in on events about women, and I've also seen it around events relating to black or indigenous Canadians. But I've also seen race try and push in on other kinds of events as well.

Sometimes I feel like there is now a sort of competition to stack identities, the more you can stack, the higher you are in the hierarchy.