I said in another thread , but wamy 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.
How the people of Saskatchewan keep these clowns employed as their leaders is a mystery. The province is rapidly becoming the Mississippi of Canada.
I ask my neighbours this and still don’t understand.
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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.
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.
Maybe, and hear me out, supporting trans youth has strong evidence in medical research and whatever your perspective is doesn’t.
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?
