The Conservative Culture War is Infecting Canadian Politics
In Kelowna, British Columbia, a man decided to take a stand. The reason for his offense was simple: a child on his granddaughter’s elementary school sports team had a short haircut. Two of the kids, in fact. To his mind, they had to be transgender.The girls in question were not trans, they had pixie cuts for the sake of fashion. They were also 9 years old, one of them a week away from her 10th birthday. They didn’t know the man, but they were not likely to forget his face after the way he humiliated them in public. In front of all of their friends, their teachers, their parents, and the entire crowd gathered to watch them have a fun day playing sports, the man demanded documents to prove that they were ‘real girls’. Allegedly, the woman with him accused the girls’ parents of being groomers, genital mutilators, and child-molesters.Angry parents filmed their children stomping on Pride flags, holding up signs accusing the schools of teaching ‘gender ideology’ and ‘grooming children’ over the school district’s inclusive policies. Imagine the LGBTQ+ children in those schools. Imagine seeing these protests, watching your classmates stomp on Pride flags and scream those slogans. Imagine seeing grown-up adults that you’ve never met and knowing that they hate you. They hate you for existing. They hate that your teachers are nice to you.
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