More lies
They just will not report on this subject honestly.
A protest against trans health-care scheduled this weekend in downtown Vancouver has reignited a debate pitting the protection of vulnerable youth against the right to free speech.
It’s not a “protest against trans health-care.” Nobody is campaigning to prevent trans people from getting health care. The issue is not health care at all, it’s health-compromising body modifications to match the sex one is not. It’s also not a matter of trying to block the protection of vulnerable youth. Nobody is demanding the free speech right to keep vulnerable youth from being protected.
Vancouver social justice lawyer Adrienne Smith fears the April 10 event will include transphobic rhetoric that contributes to real-world harm, and believes police and city officials have the legal tools necessary to shut the protest down.
What about the real-world harm to women and girls that transphiliac rhetoric contributes to?
“It’s definitely a breach of public order to say hateful things that are likely to inflame others,” Smith said. “There’s no middle ground with hateful comments.”
There’s also no universal agreement on what “hateful” means in this context, to put it mildly. I consider “trans women are women!!” far more “hateful” than “trans women are men.”
Promotional material says the event is to “stop child-medical transition.” In other words, to protest transgender kids accessing gender-affirming health care, which can include puberty blockers and connecting them with trans-inclusive health care providers.
“Gender-affirming” health care isn’t health care at all. It cures no disease, it prevents no disease, it heals no wounds. Being female or male isn’t a disease or an injury.
Gender identity expression is also protected under both the B.C. and Canadian human rights codes, and a recent court ruling chastised a parent for improperly trying to interfere with a teen’s gender transition, which had been approved by a team of medical professionals.
That’s because Canada has frankly gone nuts on this subject.
The news that the UK’s Tavistock Clinic has suffered from internal crises, that it’s “treatment” has no scientific integrity, that the 80% desistance of children has been replaced by almost 100% persistence in transitioning once puberty blockers are introduced, plus the already well-documented health problems of hormone treatments, … all swept under the rug.
All these documented cases of “real-world harm” caused by shit-heads who can’t even define their terms, … I’ve seen this mass delusion before. It never turns out well.
They do an incredible amount of epistemic lifting through rhetoric and vocabulary. “Gender identity expression” ought to mean wearing what you want to wear, living as you want to live, regardless of what sex you are: gender nonconformity. Instead, it means trying to match your external sex to your internal one: gender conformity + physical impossibility.
When this edifice cracks it’s going to break, hard.
What an incredible comment. Has this person really never heard of religion? Islamists in particular love this one, and regularly call for restrictions on speech, or provide excuses for attacks, on the basis of offence taken from someone’s words.
Hey look at that, another parallel with religion.
The issue is distress, supposedly caused by having the ‘wrong’ body for that mind. Distress is a psychological harm, yet these people want minors railroaded into medical procedures which permanently change the body such that it no longer causes distress / causes less distress. We don’t do that with other distresses caused by the body, so why the exception for this one?
I get lectured for ‘medicalising’ transness for bringing biology into discussions, yet here they want full steam ahead medicalising!
Your medicalizing is “trapping” the individual in the body they’re born in, turning it into a prison. Their medicalising is “freeing” that person, liberating their “true selves.”
The constant lies and obfuscation are so fucking exhausting. Just once I would love to see an explanation of “gender identity” that did not resort to sadly predictable bad faith tactics like:
TWAW! TWAW! TWAW! TWAW! TWAW! TWAW! TWAW! TWAW! It’s right there in the name! (Sawhorses, seahorses and pommel horses are horses)
Trans women are women exactly like Black women are women! (Racism much?)
Clownfish! (Mammals!)
Sex is a spectrum! Intersex!! (What is the third sex and what gamete does it produce?)
Gametes? OMG you’re saying that infertile women are not women! (No, never.)
Biological determinism! (Biology determines your sex, yes. But your sexed body should be welcome to any personalty available.)
Assigned at birth! (Oh please.)
Smash the binary! (Oh, Please! Let’s! Where’s my sledgehammer! Why are you looking at me like that? Where’s your sledgehammer? Why are there pink and baby blue stripes on that baseball bat? Did you know baseball bats are bats?))