How the Canadian Conversation on Gender Ideology Changed in 2023
If Canada can start waking up, so can the rest of the world
Perhaps no other country in the world has gone further down the gender rabbit hole than Canada, and no other country is kicking and screaming harder to stay there. Almost nothing exemplifies this reality better than the fact that our government unanimously passed a “conversion therapy” bill (which, ironically, has the effect of “converting” many gay youth into a facsimile of straight youth) two years ago. If you asked me last December how long it would take for the gender delusion to begin ebbing away, I would have said at least a few years. But today I no longer feel quite so pessimistic.
Would the Real Conversion Therapists Please Stand Up?
“Conversion therapy” is a hot-button issue nowadays, but not in the traditional sense. When most people think of conversion therapy, they think of attempts to chan…
I’ll be the first to admit that 2023 didn’t start off great. In fact, I documented a lot of the gender madness that made it look like Canada was careening toward a cliff as quickly as ever. On January 10, for example, protesters shut down a talk at Montreal’s McGill University set to be given by Robert Wintemute, an original signatory of the Y…
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