Moving the Needle in the Gender Wars

A Weekly Report on the Canadian Gender Wars - June 16, 2023 Vol 20

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By Shannon B Douglas

It has been twenty weeks now since I began writing this ongoing summary of the transgender wars in Canada. It began, if you revisit my first piece, as a weekly media commentary and analysis of evolving coverage on the issues. At the time, there were a couple issues a week to cover. At the time the problems created by gender ideology were beginning to manifesting in the public as more than just mere aberrations to an ideology that brags about inclusions and creating safe places, and for protecting alphabet kids.

Trans students, as the editorial board of the Globe an Mail claim, are not under assault. Trans activists are facing boundaries and the word “No,” which they don’t like or understand.

In January I felt that there was enough growing coverage in the media to do a weekly summary. Five months later the flood of coverage and the conflicts arising because of the conflation of sex and gender, and of the LGB and the TQ is overwhelming. We’re now in information overload as people push back against these ideological incursions, against the wild claims that parents are a danger to their children and must be protected by the state, and against gender-captured institutions, like the Globe and Mail and school boards all over Canada.

Thursday night, parents led by Amrit Birring of the Freedom Party of BC, and the Surrey, BC School Board clashed and parents, expecting to be shut down, brought street protest tools into the board room. When the mic was cut, they raised the bullhorn to be heard as the board turned their backs and exited the meeting room.

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In the the Windsor region, the Greater Essex County District School Board yesterday announced that they are locking the public out of their final board meeting of the year, in just another example of boards refusing to listen. Parents there will still march and likely gather a protest outside the board offices next week.

The lies of the radical leftists were confronted in another bullhorn-related incident, where Ottawa MPP, Joel Harden got a scratch on his cheek from the one he used at the rally last week in Ottawa. He claimed he was punched in the face, and revised his story several times after after a 360 video surfaced of his traumatic assault by the aggressive audio amplifier. In the video it appears a sharp edge on the bullhorn contacting his face without assistance from anyone else.

Notorious Ottawa Radical Trans Activist, Deana S. also managed to embarrass herself at the protest, becoming a meme of ideological possession. She claimed early in the week that she would be filing charges against a man who she claimed punched her. The video she posted clearly showed that she was dragging a woman by the hair at the middle of the scrum and word was that the man was protecting his wife who Crazy D was assaulting. She also wins award for creative facial expressions.

The street protest in Ottawa, where Deana was representing the wholesome child defenders, saw five protesters arrested. All arrests were of rainbow jackboots who were told by organizations like Horizon Ottawa and Anti-Hate.ca to wear masks, sunglasses and hats to protect their identities in advance of the protest.

Billboard Chris and Josh Alexander on Friday, were not the only major gender protests and actions in Canada in the last seven days.

In Vancouver groups continue to hang gender critical and Anti-SOGI signs from overpasses exposing the message to tens or hundreds of thousands of eyeballs every time they unfurl their banners. The group, sogi123taskforce.com, who has faced attacks from City Hall and the province has learned to circumvent the rules against hanging signs by not attaching them to the bridge rails and by varying their protest locations.

Traffic on a major highway or city thoroughfare gets a lot more attention than groups standing together at the permitted protest locations like the steps of provincial legislatures, the monuments at city hall or outside school board offices. Overpass protests, reminiscent of the gatherings of convoy supporters during the Canadian Trucker’s Protests last year, are being picked up in Calgary, where writer and activist Eva Kurilova and partners in thought-crime raised awareness of the impact of self-ID on incarcerated women in Canada. For those who don’t already know, male convicts, including sex-offenders, who conveniently and suddenly identify as women, are transferred to women’s prisons under the laws that say it is a human right to be treated as the sex we identify with.

Another tactic getting attention is the Pop-Up protest. In BC, parents are doing “Stop SOGI” tents at random and unannounced locations, near schools, in parks and places where there is parent traffic. In Waterloo Friday, Elton Robinson gathered with others to set up several information booths on education policies, books in school libraries and more. They are now set up with the same pop-up tools as the BC protestors and the BC parent-educators raising awareness about schools and gender policies. In both regions minority groups are joining in the pushback.

Canadian Muslims are identifying as angry all across Canada and a students called for a region-wide school walk-out Tuesday after repeated events where Muslim girls have been walked in on in changerooms by “self-identifying” boys, violating Islamic modesty codes for girls to be seen without head covering. Parents gathered with children at the related protest Tuesday afternoon at the offices of the Ottawa Carleton District School Board where an estimated 300 adults chanted back and forth with the Bullhorn leaders, “Leave the kids alone!”

Debates over changes to education policies in New Brunswick continued over from last week. Justin Trudeau saw an opportunity to call millions of Canadian parents names over the issue, seemingly acting as if he is not just the political leader, but the self-appointed moral authority of the nation. His government announced another Twenty-five million virtue-dollars in support for the rainbow movement, this one to support entrepreneurship of alphabet people.

We also saw dueling statements from the editorial boards of the two largest newspapers who showed us the stark divide on approaches to covering the issue, and affirmed clearly that the Globe and Mail board is completely captured by gender ideology. The National Post put their counter to the Globe editorial board in stark contrast to the ideological drivel printed by G&M.

At twenty weeks of coverage, and me approaching two years of work on this issue, I feel like we can say safely that it is no longer just a few courageous public voices like Heather Mason, Eva Kurilova, Chanel Pfahl, Chris Elston, Ronnie Herman, Carolyn Burjoski, and Mia Ashton who have brought such tireless commitment to this movement.

They are no longer lone voices. They are joined by thousands who have been inspired by the courageous demonstrations of those few. Those thousands are now speaking out themselves, and joined in spirit by the many, many thousands who are participating in silent protests across Canada by keeping their children home from school.

I am beginning to feel safe again, and I am optimistic that our children will be made safe again as we rise against this.

We are a movement now.

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