Maybe "peoplekind" wasn't a joke after all. A couple of recent stories from our state broadcaster have really jumped out at me, and I'm wondering where exactly this is all heading. First off, Service Canada will not be using the word father or mother anymore to describe fathers or mothers.
Service Canada's gender neutral directive is 'confusing' and 'will be corrected' says minister
Front-line workers asked to use gender-neutral term 'parent' instead of mother or father
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/service-canada-gender-neutral-1.4585629
The not using Mr and Mrs is whatever I guess.....but father and mother are now forbidden words? Wtf? Reminds me of how Newspeak was constantly being revised to remove words. And yes, it's important for the government to pay for these re-education sessions isn't it. I know that I've had the training seminars at my work.
But this was even more bizarre. A softball coach from Edmonton raised a stink and now all softball leagues for girls in Canada have to accept boys:
Softball coach calls out league policy on transgender players, sparks national response
'It was pretty intrusive, especially when we're talking about kids who are under the age 18'
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/softball-league-transgender-policy-1.4584947
She has
multiple friends who are MtF trannies in some random neighbourhood in Edmonton? Maybe this is something we should talk about. Isn't it a cause for concern that more and more kids are feeling that they were "born in the wrong body"? Note that comment he made about other sports.
So C-16 is having an effect. Not sure how this makes any sense: leagues like this (not to mention changerooms, bathrooms, women's shelters etc) are segregated by sex, not "gender identity".
Hmm a diversity consultant.....I guess "she" gets makes a living doing those aforementioned re-education seminars eh.
It's very interesting that CBC, with all their taxpayer-funded resources, couldn't find a single person to reflect another side of the story. Not a single girl, parent or coach who doesn't agree with the new policy. CBC seems to just promote and wave pom-poms for this kind of stuff, and actually refused to show that documentary showing another side to the "trans kids" phenomenon.
Ok so softball isn't the biggest deal in the world, but what about hockey and other physical sports? What about girls who can't make teams because their spot is taken by a guy who "identifies" as a female? I don't think the average Canadian really grasps how radial C-16 was. It pretty much re-wrote human existence. It seems like biological sex is now subordinate to "gender identity", an ill-defined, pseudo-religious, unverifiable concept.
It really seems that our country has taken on gender theory as a state religion. The "just a few kids on a campus" are now dictating policy. How far do you guys see this going? Do you guys think this is a big deal or no? Does anyone agree that the terms mother and father are problematic, or that males should be able to play in female leagues? This is quite a Brave New World that our government seems to be leading us into - was the last federal election a referendum on allowing postmodern gender theory/"queer theory" to become our state religion?