let’s see how they handle today’s free speech issue.
https://www.timescol...aker-1.23806332
Posted 30 April 2019 - 07:02 AM
Posted 30 April 2019 - 07:07 AM
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A speaker critical of B.C.’s sexual-orientation and gender-identity policy in schools is promoting transphobic hate speech and should not be allowed to hold an event at Oak Bay’s Windsor Pavilion, opponents say.
Thursday’s talk by Jenn Smith, called “The Erosion of Freedom: How transgender politics in school and society is undermining our freedom and harming women and children,” has sparked a community backlash. As a result, Oak Bay councillors were expected to receive legal advice Monday night on whether the talk should go ahead.
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Posted 30 April 2019 - 09:39 AM
Edited by Victoria Watcher, 30 April 2019 - 09:40 AM.
Posted 30 April 2019 - 02:03 PM
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Posted 30 April 2019 - 03:20 PM
he is a transgender man. that's how he refers to himself.
In the general population, 1.7% of children present on the autism spectrum. If autism (and other compulsive conditions) was not a causative factor, then we would expect to see autism rates in the transgender community at about the same level.
Unfortunately, that is far from reality.
Depending on what study you look at, autism among transgender kids ranges between 8%up to as high as 55%.
https://www.thepostm...er-perspective/
Edited by Victoria Watcher, 30 April 2019 - 03:20 PM.
Posted 30 April 2019 - 03:28 PM
Has the transgender movement gone too far?
It began, commendably, as activism for the rights of that very small number of people who experience persisting discomfort with their biological gender. But it has evolved into an ideological movement to normalize the practice of changing genders — and in the process is crossing ethical lines with a particularly vulnerable subset of young people struggling with issues of gender identity.
A recent article by Elise Ehrhard in Crisis Magazine, a Catholic periodical, addresses the aggressive approach by adult trans activists in recruiting adolescents with Asperger’s Syndrome or other types of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to their cause.
Ehrhard has Asperger’s. As is typical among Asperger’s girls in their adolescence, she preferred the company of boys, with whom she identified cerebrally, a tendency encouraged by the bullying she experienced from other girls.
https://nationalpost...pert-backs-link
Edited by Victoria Watcher, 30 April 2019 - 03:28 PM.
Posted 30 April 2019 - 03:38 PM
A quick glance through his website is bizarre, to say the least. The feeling I get is that he is treating transgenderism as an affliction, notably saying that he began "experimenting with transgender behaviour very young" during a traumatic period in his life. He calls transgenderism a "potentially devastating life choice" being promoted by the pharmaceutical industry. That may help explain why he identifies as male and uses male pronouns, but presents as female. Via https://transanityca...n-and-children/
Definitely not a topic I want to wade in to, so I'll just stop at those observations.
Posted 30 April 2019 - 03:43 PM
the potentially devastating life-choice he speaks to is having transformative surgery or medications too early in life. he advocates for people to be adults before they make those choices. but now we are leaning towards allowing children to make these medical decisions. no matter how parents feel. and we are moving towards laws that will allow medical transition in younger and younger people - that can't be overturned by parents. if a doctor agrees your 6-year-old could be put on a medical transformation plan.
there is plenty of research that suggests children "grow out" of gender dysphoria in many cases. this speaker feels it's tragic to have a 10 or 12-year-old insist on physical transitioning at that age.
https://vancouversun...-take-it-slowly
Being prepared is more important than ever, Bradley suggested, because the percentage of young people expressing feelings about wanting to be another sex has skyrocketed from the roughly one out of 1,000 who brought up such ideas in the 1980s.
In the past it was predominantly children between the ages of four and ten who would stun parents by saying, “I think I’m a boy” or “I think I’m a girl.” But researchers say a new wave of North American teenagers, mostly females, are beginning to identity as another sex.
The phenomenon, which Bradley said can be stimulated simply by friends talking about transitioning, is called Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria. In this polarized climate it goes without saying the term is controversial.
A key reason many mental health specialists urge great caution in supporting gender switches is that many children grow out of their feelings.
One study of girls with gender dysphoria, a broad term for those who want to change their sex, was lead by the University of Toronto’s Kelley Drummond. The team followed 25 Canadian girlsdiagnosed with gender dysphoria (at the average age of eight) and found, when the girls grew into their early twenties, only 12 per cent still identified with another gender.
Edited by Victoria Watcher, 30 April 2019 - 03:54 PM.
Posted 30 April 2019 - 03:48 PM
Remember Doug Christie and his talks? https://en.wikipedia...ristie_(lawyer) Now that was hate speech!
But here is an excellent
Suffering Mr. Christie's words and opinions is part of the price one pays for upholding and cherishing freedom of speech in a free and democratic society. And society must be willing to accept this price. Mr. Christie's anti-Semitic comments were not akin to the cry of fire in a crowded theatre. His theatre was mostly empty
Posted 30 April 2019 - 04:00 PM
and then what do you do when parents are like this:
https://www.lifesite...dad-for-not-goi
She has also sought restraining orders against Younger, she is trying to terminate his parental rights, and also seeks to compel Younger to pay for James’s visits with a transgender-affirming therapist and for medical procedures to “transition” James to a girl.
The controversial “treatment” could include hormonal sterilization that could begin in as soon as two years when James turns eight, in preparation for James to later have “sexual reassignment” surgery.
While James’s mother is “all in” on socially transitioning the boy, Heyer writes, providing only female clothes and enrolling him in school with a girl’s name, James exhibits no signs of gender dysphoria when with his father or others, choosing to dress and live as a boy.
“The fact that James changes gender identity depending on which parent is present makes the diagnosis of gender dysphoria both dubious and harmful,” Heyer said.
Furthermore, he writes, the transition therapist has observed as well that James is not consistent, insistent, or persistent in the desire to become “Luna.”
Edited by Victoria Watcher, 30 April 2019 - 04:01 PM.
Posted 30 April 2019 - 04:07 PM
I watched some of that "I Am Jazz" TV show and one complication of her surgery was that she was still only a teenager and not fully developed so there wasn't as much material for the surgeon to work with when making the transition to female.
You can't make a pillowcase out of a handkerchief I guess is what I'm trying to say.
Jesus, what thread is this.
Posted 01 May 2019 - 03:32 PM
I watched some of that "I Am Jazz" TV show and one complication of her surgery was that she was still only a teenager and not fully developed so there wasn't as much material for the surgeon to work with when making the transition to female.
You can't make a pillowcase out of a handkerchief I guess is what I'm trying to say.
Jesus, what thread is this.
Posted 01 May 2019 - 03:39 PM
Posted 01 May 2019 - 03:54 PM
^^ shows how corrupt and pathetic much of the medical field has become. Totally corrupted by the cancer of academia and social justice politics to the point where they will irrevocably mutilate troubled teenagers and pretend it's a serious, necessary surgery
Posted 01 May 2019 - 03:58 PM
Posted 01 May 2019 - 04:30 PM
Making a point or just laying out the facts?laser eye surgery is optional and not covered by taxpayers.
Posted 01 May 2019 - 04:49 PM
Posted 01 May 2019 - 05:07 PM
Posted 01 May 2019 - 06:27 PM
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