I said in another thread , but want to say again. Of all the things going on in the world, in Saskatchewan, from rent, to food costs, to healthcare, to climate change, to wild fires, these conservatives found that forcing vulnerable gender diverse children into a closet they can only come out of with their parents permission is the top priority. So important it required an emergency recall, debate and the use of the notwithstanding clause to override the charter rights of these vulnerable children.
It’s called a distraction. Give voters something meaningless to be mad about and they won’t notice the things they should be getting mad about. Smith is doing the same thing in Alberta with this whole APP thing. It’s 100% a distraction so voters don’t notice the crumbling healthcare, overpriced heating and electricity, etc.
It’s not a distraction for the vulnerable trans kid who now has to choose between living their most authentic , healthy life and staying in the closet.
It’s sick to treat these kids like this, to use them as pawns for a distraction, if that’s it. I think though conservatives would do this kind of thing distraction or not.
I couldn’t agree more, but it’s very clear that right-wing parties in both the US and Canada have decided to turn trans rights into a wedge issue they can use to divide and distract voters, just as they’ve always done with marginalized groups in the past. It’s a playbook as old as time (just ask the gay community, or the black community, or the Jewish community, or…), and it’s always been incredibly disgusting and very successful: pick a group that’s too small to be an actual danger and pump them up into a threat that only the right wingers can save us all from. And if you’re thinking “huh, didn’t I hear somewhere that that’s what fascists do?”… well… yeah, exactly.
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Meanwhile, one of their cardiac clinics just went private because public health services and funding is in trouble in the province.
If they spent half as much time arguing and debating about gender identity in the province as they did for health care funding and services … they’d probably have the strongest health care system in Canada.
How the people of Saskatchewan keep these clowns employed as their leaders is a mystery. The province is rapidly becoming the Mississippi of Canada.
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I ask my neighbours this and still don’t understand.
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Remember, kids. Your parents own you. /s
When you need to take away people’s rights so bad that you call a special sitting.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A controversial bill on the use of pronouns by school students received final approval in the Saskatchewan legislature and was passed into law Friday.
It also said the law protects students because it calls for school support staff to get involved if a child fears they will suffer physical, emotional or mental harm from their parents finding out.
The government acted after hearing last fall that one school division was enacting a policy to not inform parents in cases where the child didn’t want them to know, Dustin Duncan, minister of Crown Investments Corporation, said in the final debate Friday morning.
“Teachers will have to choose between shoving kids back in the closet or putting them in harm’s way,” NDP Leader Carla Beck said.
Lawyers for UR Pride, a Regina LGBTQ organization, obtained a court injunction until a challenge could be heard later this year.
Bennett Jensen, co-counsel for UR Pride and legal director at Egale Canada, said the team will be determining next steps in the coming days.
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The language police have spread out from Quebec.
Maybe, and hear me out, it’s a decision someone should wait until they’re at least 16 to make?
If you’re helping your kid realize they’re gay in the 3rd grade, I honestly can understand why the opposition would vote for measures like this. Good god.
Their name and pronoun?
Nah, that’s a super easy change and super easy to change back. I think I averaged 2-3 new nicknames per year before 16.
This is an even easier thing to change than clothes.
Sounds pointless. So perfect thing for government to prioritize. Over waves broadly to the world literally burning
@ultratiem @Nouveau_Burnswick The hateful gotta hate.
Maybe, and hear me out, supporting trans youth has strong evidence in medical research and whatever your perspective is doesn’t.
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You think I’m “anti-trans” because I think an eight year old shouldn’t be worried about gender?
Where did you get that? I never accused you of being anti-trans. You accused someone of having an agenda for linking to a paper that suggests acceptance of gender identity as a means of reducing harm.
I chose my words very carefully to avoid accusing you of anything.
If you actually read that paper, you’ll find that it claims evidence of children 6-7 years old starting to separate gender as identity from gender as physical appearance.
I don’t think your 8 year old or any 8 year old should be worried about gender identity, which is why I don’t agree with making such a big deal about gender identity claims. When it comes right down to it, I don’t think anyone of any age should have any concern about anyone’s gender identity other than their own. Let people of all ages alone to be who they are without judgement, condemnation, or panic.
It’s not me, who is fine with whatever, who is causing any children grief over gender, but those who have their hair on fire over a world that is not quite what they expected.
@baconisaveg @jadero My daughter began wondering whether she was trans at around nine or ten, because she realized she was attracted to girls and thought that this must mean she was meant to be a man. Spoiler: No, she’s just gay. 😉
Our culture is the straight, cis-gendered water in which everyone swims. When you’re old enough to recognize that you’re different, of course you’re going to worry about why, and what it means.
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Remember, in this case we’re only talking about them asking to use a different pronoun, it involves a grand total of zero physical alterations.
Heck, do you even know what the criterias are to be allowed to start an actual medical transition? Because it’s not just going to the doctor to ask for some pills, let me tell you that! You can get a prescription for drugs that are much more dangerous way more easily by faking back pain!
I mean, why 16? Just some random number?
Why not 13? 18? 8?
