Massive protests against gender ideology break out in Canada under the 1 million march 4 children group.

 

Protesters in Ottawa. The National Post.

Massive protests against gender ideology broke out today in Canada under the 1 Million March 4 Children group. The National Post. The group is against gender ideology in schools. They want more transparency and parental notification of gender ideology. Counter protests also happened, and had the support of many government officials. However, the premier of New Brunswick supported the protests and said his policies, that require parents to be notified of any pronoun changes or other gender changes. 

My Comment:

It's very difficult to see what is actually going on in Canada right now from the outside looking in. International new media outlets are simply not covering these protests at all, even conservative outlets like Fox News, Breitbart or the New York Post. And Canadian news outlets? Even the supposedly conservative news outlet, The National Post, was pretty obviously on the side of the counter protesters. 

That means I have to go with what I see on social media and that isn't very clear either. If you look at conservative sources these protests were huge and outnumbered the counter protests. If you look at LGBT accounts you would see the opposite thing. I generally give the protesters accounts more credibility but that could be bias. Without unbiased reporting and not being there on the ground, it's hard to tell. 

What is clear is that the protests were very widespread in a liberal country like Canada. It is also clear that the protesters were fairly diverse. There were a lot of older whites but I also so a lot of black and Muslim protesters. It's an unusual alliance but one that makes sense, both groups do not want gender ideology in schools and are going to team up together. 

There were counter protests as well but they seemed smaller and made up of exclusively younger people, other then the politicians of course. They also seemed to be pretty exclusively to be members of the LGBT community and not "normal" folks, for a lack of a better term. That of course makes sense, but it does make me question how much support the LGBT community has. 

The media and the government in Canada is demonizing these protests as bigoted and phobic but that cry has worn thin over the years. When everything is transphobic eventually nothing is. And it's been the constant refrain from the Justin Trudeau government, any criticism of him or his policies at all is framed as bigotry of some form. I don't think these attacks are landing and they obviously have very little relation to reality. 

As for the dispute that started these protests I agree with them. It's absurd that children are being essentially groomed into LGBT beliefs. I don't know if I would support a total ban on children learning about this stuff, Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual people exist of course, but I think there should be some more limits on what they are doing. I'd limit to explaining that gay people exist and not much beyond that. I'm a lot less sympathetic to trans ideology, I don't think there is such a thing as a natural trans child. 

What is incredibly disturbing is the fact that these policies are being put into place that keep parents from knowing what is going on with their kids. It's absurd that schools can tell children that they are trans but the parents aren't allowed to be notified about it. I know the counterargument is that these children could be harmed by their parents. I don't buy that outside of a few very limited circumstances. Much more likely is that those children have a heart to heart with their parents and the vast majority of them will end up reverting back to normal. Regardless, this not happening is a reasonable demand for these protesters to make. 

I do think that these protests are a good example of the backlash against the LGBT community, and by that I mostly mean the T portion of that group. I don't like lumping LGB with T but they are the ones that chose that. Regardless, people are clearly angry about the things people are doing and the backlash is getting stronger. Just a few years ago people would not have shown up like this but now there are people out there even in Canada pushing back against this stuff.