Canada: Where Free Speech Goes to Die
The land where debate is harmful and words are violence
On January 10, CBC reported that protestors had stormed Montreal’s McGill University and shut down a talk on “sex vs. gender.”
“Advocates say debating trans women's rights is harmful to all women,” the subtitle of the piece proclaims.
The talk in question, titled The Sex vs. Gender (Identity) Debate In the United Kingdom and the Divorce of LGB from T, was to be given by McGill alumnus and human rights lawyer Robert Wintemute.
It was to be hosted by McGill University's Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and was described as a discussion about:
whether or not the law should be changed to make it easier for a transgender individual to change their legal sex from their birth sex, and about exceptional situations, such as women-only spaces and sports, in which the individual’s birth sex should take priority over their gender identity, regardless of their legal sex.
This sounds like a very fitting discussion for a centre for human rights and legal…
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