Open Letter to all who are fearful of the #MillionPersonMarch on September 20
The parallels are striking - Let's learn from them!
I am writing this in response to the leaked recording of Ontario union leaders who recently met to discuss ways to counter the upcoming Canada-wide initiative planned initially by Muslim Canadians re: the topic of gender ideology and trans activism in Canadian schools. The concerns and strategies discussed in that meeting might be shared by other labour activists, Pride and other LGBTQ2+ group leaders, allies, etc. across the country, so feel free to forward this link to them, as well as to local school boards who are caught in the cross fire.
It is my hope that while I am writing this as a letter to those in that recorded meeting, the information I reference and the parallels I am drawing can also be shared with Canadians who are approaching September 20 with a similar level of fear and concern.
These screen caps show how this event is being described:
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My Open Letter
Dear Ottawa area labour activists, and in particular those of you in that call who took part in counter-Convoy actions in February 2022.
I am writing first of all as a colleague, a fellow union member of 35 years, having recently retired from service to the public as an educator in Alberta. So I “get” the concerns you have for the wellbeing of the whole of society, including the diverse minorities within it. I have worked with gay/lesbian (possibly bi) colleagues over the years and respect them for their great teaching and interpersonal skills, right alongside all others dedicated educators in the field. I have taught high school students who, on occasion, may have made their gender orientation known to me. Three or four years pre-Covid, this included a biological male socially and medically transitioning to female - the first in my experience, and likely first for many in the school community. In the past year, my class lists included two females socially transitioning to male while a colleague of mine reported five female students in a junior high classroom wishing to go by male names and pronouns but not wanting their parents to know.
I am writing as well, as a former teacher of what is referred to in Alberta as Career and Life Management (CALM), a mandatory one semester course taken at some point within grades 10-12. The key themes are career research, basic financial management, and healthy living. We teach students to develop budgets, write resumes and how to hopefully avoid intoxication. Among all these topics falls that of making healthy life choices with respect to sexual wellbeing. I am well aware that provincial legislation gives parents the legal right to have their children exempted from class on days where sexual health is addressed. It was my duty as the teacher to inform parents of this right so they could exercise it, for example on days when guest speakers were to present some aspect of sex ed. So I am well aware of the dance around some of these issues — how not every family sees life, sex, money, etc. in the same way that I as the teacher do.
I am also writing as a 40 year long friend to gay men, and I remember their fears back in the early years as AIDS was a grave concern. I can therefore hear the concern expressed by the person on the call named Susan, re: the struggles in the early years, likely even before the wide-spread use of the LGBTQ moniker, of people of gender-diverse orientations. (On a side, note, many Canadians have been shocked to discover that Dr. Tony Fauci had a dubious role to play in the banning of antiviral medication that could have changed the course of history, both in the AIDS crisis and again during our Covid era. And many are shocked to discover we are now seeing a return of AIDS in the form of Vaccine Induced Auto Immune Deficiency, or VAIDS).
Susan and others fear that the September 20 event and the organizers behind it are going to be attacking the gains that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people have made in the areas of health care access and social recognition. Because of this fear, they and others on the call referred to the need to counter this nation-wide march as a Human Rights issue. The various labour executives on the call saw the need to mount a counter protest as a way to protect the rights of their LGBTQ2+ colleagues in the workplace.
To all of you, I would like to remind you of past citizen actions many of you have been involved in and ask: Who was the real opponent?
One of the speakers mentioned that the strength of those on the call (or union organizers in general?) is their ability to listen. Some speakers repeatedly referenced your desire to show love and positivity.
So working with that strength and that desire, please listen to what I share below - note I am sharing this information out of love and concern, wishing to build bridges over the divide that has you mislabelling fellow Canadians, colleagues, workers, educators, parents, grandparents, etc. etc. as “fascists” who are purportedly spreading “hate.”
I start with an invitation to read a recently written substack post that deals with the Weaponization of Compassion because someone stands to benefit - someone is milking your/our concerns, your/our desire for love and peace etc.
Any idea who?
I wrote:
Many of us remember in past decades demonstrating, signing petions and otherwise being involved in citizen action to draw attention to the excesses of corporate greed when it came to the oil industry, textile and footwear manufacturers exploiting workers in sweat shop conditions, the situation of poor and exploited Congolese working to produce so-called blood diamonds, the untoward use of “false flag” operations to drive up military combats with the aim of producing and selling more military hardware, etc. etc. We devoured books like Linda McQuaig’s “Shooting the Hippo” in which she pointed out the ills of corporate malfeasance. Some of us might even have cheered when reading Chrystia Freeland’s 2012 critique of the ueberweathly in Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else before she acquiesced to their influence and joined some of them on the board of the World Economic Forum. Back in the 1990s and 2000s, we stood up against the corporatization of health care and the bailing out of the big banks at the expense of others. Opposing Big Corp and the associated uebercapitalist Big Business agenda was seen by social minded, caring citizens as the right thing to do.
But recently, pointing at the possibility that Big Corp is using the human body as an endless income stream appears totally TABOO!
If you have the time, please read the whole section. Here I am jumping only to:
But with a nearly iron-clad control of the media in most Western nations (including Oceania), the population has been unaware of this stealthily increasing corporatism. Through corporate backed organizations like the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, ANY critique which in any way can pull profits away from BigCorp has now been turned around as “hate speech” - You oppose “vaccine” injections? You are an “anti-vaxxer” says an agency with funding from AstraZeneca. Concerned about the harms of puberty blockers for youth? You are a “transphobe”! Talking about the role geo-engineering plays in creating havoc in the weather? You are a “climate-change denier”! Ditto for those Nobel prize winning scientists who recently signed the Clintel World Climate Declaration. They will be ignored, or we will soon be told by mainstream voices that there must be something wrong with them.
Concerned about the impact of open borders on the homelessness situation and advocating for a return to regular pre-Covid immigration policy? You are a “racist.” (There is much $$ to be made in human trafficking, albeit not overly by any one single industry or corporation.) On that note, the makers of a recent movie (Sound of Freedom) shining a light on child sex trafficking too, have a tale to tell of how Hollywood voices have been trying to sidetrack the conversations maligning the movie as playing to the conspiracy theory following right wing religious crowd. When someone talking about reading articles in the Epoch Times of impending major bank collapses and a global recession, or of how increasingly the agriculture industry is being taken over by fewer and fewer corporations making costly demands on farmers, and farmers evicted by governments adhering to the World Economic Forum’s Fourth Industrial Revolution agenda which will willingly jeopardize food security to lower carbon emissions, is rebranded as some kind of kooky “conspiracy theorist.”
What we are hearing in the recording of your meeting, is that you clearly fear these other voices, yet NOT ONE OF YOU referenced what it is these other voices are truly concerned about. It is clear that those union executives speaking on the call have very little understanding of or openness to what it is likely that many of the workers you represent care deeply about. Are labour unions not the representatives of workers? Should their leaders not have ways and means to get at the pulse of those who make up the bulk of the organization? Or was that call made up solely of “white collar” unions? But even so, even among those groups there should be a wide spectrum of voices, views and opinions on all manner of topics, or at least there used to be, before all the major media outlets fell under the management of creepy things like the Trusted News Initiative, or like Pepsi, Coke and orange juice - they ALL became part of the same few gargantuan corporate investment chains!
Are working class families not to be taken seriously as fellow thinking, feeling, intelligent Canadians? How can you as leaders in organizations that represent working class Canadians (I assume) be so unaware of the concerns parents and others have that are driving this pretty massive Sept 20 undertaking? As an outside listener, I noted the irony of those on the call wishing to reach out in LOVE and priding yourselves in your abilities to listen while being yourself so willing to label the protesters as “fascist” and with “some kind of religious” concern. The previous post I referenced outlines my theory as to how even within a single organization, there can be such division:
Much of this division is driven by the sources people have been turning to for information. The roughly 25% of Canadians who continue taking regular boosters are likely following the public health news as presented via mainstream media. Increasingly though, Canadians are turning to other sources outside of the BigPharma compromised agencies, i.e. the actual scientists and academic physicians driving the research mentioned above. But if the leaders and policy makers in your organization are still within the “mainstream corporate bubble” you may soon sense a lack of respect from those who have moved on. It is imperative for every decision & policy maker to understand the thinking and information sources of the public they serve from among a growing majority of Canadians who have “awoken” to what has been (and continues to be) unspoken in mainstream society. This interview presented by former mainstream journalist Kid Carson with child mental health advocate Tasha Fishman provides all listeners with a dizzying explanation of the various “agendas” on the minds of a growing segment of parents these days. Listen carefully to see how on the one hand, these “agendas” could be dismissed as “conspiratorial” while on the other, they are in line with the contention presented here that our compassion is being weaponized outside of our awareness.
A case in point: while many working class Canadians supported the attempt by Canadian truckers to take their case against mandatory injections directly to Parliament by driving to Ottawa, many of the “lap-top class”, or “white collar professionals” were of the opinion (driven by the BigPharma+Public Health+BigMedia+Government conglomerate) that these people were not to be taken seriously. The upcoming Million Person March planned nationally by families opposed to the teaching of “gender as a social construct” rather than as a biological reality will be a new case in point. These people have been concerned that there is a recent spike in young people surveyed who are identifying as identifying as trans, bi or questioning in addition to gay or lesbian. This is precisely the audience being sought by predatory manufacturers of yet another BigPharma product, namely life long hormonal therapies, alongside of medication for the known side effects of medical transitioning, such as osteoporosis, and more. If a wide swath of Canadians concerned about these matters is incorrectly labelled by the policy makers in mainstream institutions as uninformed, insensitive, uneducated, racist, sexist, etc. etc. (which is what the BigPharma+Public Health+BigMedia+Government conglomerate did to the truckers) we will have a repeat event further dividing society with schools at the front line of this division.
Ouch, I put that quote there and I know it bites. Please allow me to address the members of the Ottawa contingent specifically. You appear proud that the convoy activists appear to have dissipated. One of your members stated that fascism has always been countered by people taking to the streets. Putting their bodies on the line.
Which is precisely what your “nemesis” (in plural, i.e., the truckers) have done.
Putting their bodies, their trucks, their income sources on the line for the sake of humanity, to put a STOP to the BigPharma money grab on the backs of (in the full bodies of) sacred human life. Those “safe and effective vaccines” continue to be understood as lab-engineered bio-weapons that someone DESIGNED, PRODUCED and coerced governments to IMPLEMENT IN FULL KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR HARM.
IT IS THE SAME FOR CHEMICAL PUBERTY BLOCKERS, BEING IMPLEMENTED WITH THE HELP OF DO-GOODERS, WHILE THOSE WHO MAKE THEN HIDE THE HARM!!
The actions of the Canadian truckers were a true “Rage against the Machine” moment - WHILE remaining peaceful. Sadly, the intellectual leaders among you refer to both interracial collections of concerned Canadians as “fascist” - defying every definition of that word. For a deep dive on how FASCISM as a term is often misused in activist circles and how it really refers COPORORATISM, i.e. what happens when corporations (like Pfizer) hold the reins over governments like ours, please take the time to read this article. In May of this year, we heard the GOBSMACKING testimony of attorney Shawn Buckley telling us how for some reason (Pfizer pressure could be the reason) the Canadian government had changed the regulatory approval process and ELIMINATED the testing for safety and efficacy just in time for the purchase of the Pfizer & Moderna Covid-19 shots.
I invite all readers to listen to this information here while becoming aware that Mr. Buckley essentially explained the same changes already in June of 2022 alongside a number of other important speakers at and earlier initiative to air the truth, entitled the Citizens’ Hearing. So while this information has been public for FIFTEEN MONTHS, I can almost guarantee that your favourite mainstream news outlet will have ZERO mention of this state of affairs.
Following these Citizen Inquiries, we heard of the agile regulations, and see a possible tie between BigPharma, the Pharma-backed WHO and Health Canada to essentially eliminate the fuss and bother of drug safety checking moving forward. You can see that for yourself if you read their descriptions of what “Agile” regulations seek to achieve - benefits for big business being the number one. Anyone who downloads the document will marvel at how it is being promoted by the world’s most powerful corporate lobby group, the World Economic Forum, one that includes the CEO of Pfizer as one of its “Agenda Shapers.” THAT is fascism aka corporatism at work!!! NOT the marches of ordinary everyday concerned Canadians from all races and walks of life!!!
Another example of how the Canadian government is hopping to do the bidding of BigPharma can be seen in the changes to the latest budget, essentially wipe out small scale naturopathy products in favour of BigCorp. Who here is telling whom what to do? When Corporations control government bureaucrats THAT is fascism. Especially when corporate and government controlled BigMedia continue ensuring ONLY ONE side of the story is delivered, completely wiping out voices that counter the government narrative. For more detail, onsider listening to Queen’s University Law Professor Dr. Bruce Pardy as he explains the status of western governments to date. It might help all concerned to see how via corporatism, we have left our democracy and are now living in what is known as an administrative state.
When someone under the banner of opposing fascism (like your group of union organizers is talking about doing) actually wipes out those who really stand in the way of corporatism (like those million concerned parents speaking out against BigPharma profiting over pre-teen bodies and that being encouraged in schools), those “anti-fascists” in name only are acting either as useful idiots or as complicit! (This might be news to you, but there is plenty of writing on this topic within the new platform for uncensored news and voices aka Substack, for starters!)
It is clear that those who spoke on the call are still firmly entrenched in the mainstream, corporate-government funded media bubble - which still touts that the Covid-19 vaccine is “safe and effective”, that the Convoy was “racist” or some other such epithet, that anyone who speaks up in support of those scientists and working class Canadians who put all they had on the line to #STOPTHESHOTS is “misinformed” or worse, a “Misinformation Spreader” who needs to be countered.
Back in February of 2022, I tried to reach out to Ottawa residents with a letter that included a riff on Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s famous sonnet “How do I love thee, let me count the ways” calling my version “How do I harm thee, let me count the ways” referring specifically to the Covid-19 vaccine injections. Millions of Canadians outside of the mainstream bubble (including many Ottawa area residents) were supporting the truckers BECAUSE they were SO RELIEVED that SOMEONE was FINALLY going to get the Government to UNDERSTAND THE HARM. Or so they thought.
We now have discovered that (former) Minister Mendicino and others already attached the “racist hate-filled” labelling to the Convoy before it even left BC - and our Prime Minister was all the more happy to equate the Canadian protestors with those who allegedly stormed the White House on January 6th. (Here too, many are becoming aware of the security footage released online showing those concerned Americans having the doors held open for them and them being welcomed inside, only then to be reported on as hateful insurrectionists…)
Could you in Government Town not understand the need to put up with just a few days of inconvenience SO THAT parents would NOT have to mourn the needless deaths of their children, like Dan Hartman and his family do? You do realize that the truckers did not count on our elected officials dragging this out for weeks!! Could you not have pressed Mr. Trudeau et al to do the honourable thing and stop pretending concerned Canadians were a danger to democracy? Or lobby Dr. Teresa Tam to attend the invitation with representatives of leading edge COVID-19 researchers at the time? More recently did ANY NEWS AT ALL make its way to you of the Canada wide 24 day long 8 city wide National Citizens’ Inquiry which just this week issued the first four if its recommendations? Listen to the various unionized workers and others, possibly even people within your workplace or organization, pressured into a chilling “proof of vaccination” mandate as a condition for employment who now need to live with long term or permanent body tremors, and other disabilities. This would be BECAUSE of strident voices among the union leadership such as yours. Voices who were NOT OPEN to the facts on the ground when it comes to evolving C-19 science. You can find a list of suffering Canadians under the heading Vaccine Injured in this temporary directory. (Volunteers will soon revamp the whole NCI website and populate it with searchable and direct links to each testimony, so please bookmark it and visit it again soon.) Keep in mind that there ARE MANY MORE vaccine-injured Canadians. The NCI was overwhelmed with applicants willing to testify and could have recorded testimonies for many more days!!!
Concerned Canadians are NOT “Fascists”
It is clear that the views your group believes are widespread (i.e. that parents concerned about gender ideology in schools are fomenting “hate” etc. ) might in fact, not be so widespread at all. And that it might be people who share your fears who are in fact spreading hate. (Just like those who vilify top Canadian and interaction Covid researchers as “misinformation spreaders” are themselves engaged in that very act. See this post if you wish to go in that direction.)
Back to the topic at hand. I invite you to take a look at this 10 minute video to understand what parents and concerned citizens in all countries impacted by the UN, WHO and other BigPharma controlled globalist organisations are implementing under the guise of Human Sexuality Education. No one disagrees that on their own and in the proper age context (i.e. 16 years and up) these teachings can be relevant and helpful. The big concerns at this time are:
a) psychological consequences of “teaching” concepts deemed age-inapprorpriate to the young, i.e. not letting kids keep their innocence in the elementary school years. Yes, we can teach about puberty changes to the body in their pre-pubescent years in upper elementary, but we do not need to venture into the obscene, like this “ring toss game” geared toward children, set up in a public space, part of a summer festival. I wonder what image the young girl cut off at the right of this photo will have of the men in her life, after having “played the game”. Will she wonder which shape or coloration their various penis’ have? Will she wonder when and whether her father, uncle, bus driver, coach, teacher etc. have erections? Or the boys in her class? What does this kind of exposure do to her psycho-social development? Is anyone on your side asking about this girl’s human right to a childhood free of unwanted early sexualization? Would we we be OK with a game the other way around, bringing boys face to face with plastic female breasts in different shapes and forms? In both cases, are we leading kids to objectify or fetishize genitalia? And to what end? If having healthy conversations about healthy sexual relations is the desired goal behind all this early sexualization, there are certainly other ways to go about that than sticking these graphic objects like these, or clearly pornographic books in front of children who are developmentally not at all ready for them.
b) shaking the confidence developing children have in themselves as valuable human beings — suggesting that they may be flawed and that: Hello, Big Pharma is happy to help! ;-) ;-)
c) breaking child/parent ties by insinuating kids don’t let their parents in on a discussion that has complete life-altering ramifications (Hmmm…much like BigPharma found a way to break the doctor/patient relationship with the whole vaccine debacle!)
d) making it routine to present medicalized gender related treatment as a FIRST line approach instead of counselling services. I have been informed second hand that US doctors in some board examinations, are now facing the question of what to do about a pre-teen exhibiting gender dysphoria, where the only correct answer on the exam is puberty blockers… So what are we to do with children who (i.e. like me at that age) feel awkward around the bodily changes puberty brings with it? This ties in with the full scale adoption of the “Dutch approach” to gender dysphoria in various countries - i.e. provide puberty blockers BEFORE the onset of puberty, which we see then led to a clear rise in “cases” referred to the only provider of gender health related support services commissioned by the National Health Service in England.
For details, see https://cass.independent-review.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Cass-Review-Interim-Report-Final-Web-Accessible.pdf While this graph shows a pandemic era dip, indications are that the trend is continuing, encouraged by popular cultural entertainment. It wouldn’t surprise me that movie and TV production studios were given memos to increase Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in their projects as a condition of funding. Studios received something similar three years ago: i.e. pro Vax plot ideas for example!
e) It is becoming clear that while they are doing all of this pro-medical transitioning messaging when they are away from the public space, those who work with these drugs are aware of the very negative consequences. Canadians ask: Why is it deemed “hateful” to express concerns in public on these matters?
This is from https://4thwavenow.com —> A community of people who question the medicalization of gender-atypical youth. Please read over some of the concerns shared there BEFORE heading to your counterprotest on September 20. And you will find you have common ground with those who are shocked, like my colleague with her FIVE young female jr. high students now likely caught on the current social media-fed bandwagon that it is more “cool” to be trans that to affirm your “GIRRRRL POWER!” Teaching for decades, this is the first year this colleague is seeing this sudden rise.
f) vilifying or silencing the voices of those who seek to tell their stories of transitioning and detransitioning. A case in point: US teenager Chloe Cole has taken the courageous step of sharing her very intimate story with the wider public. For that the LGBT newspaper Los Angeles Blade, described Cole as "the poster child for far-right politicians and religious conservatives working to ban gender-affirming care and to prosecute the doctors and parents who support their children's transitions for child abuse." Or of those child psychologists who take the step of speaking out against BigPharma’s push to market their harmful products on unsuspecting kids and families. Check whether Dr. Miriam Grossman’s book Lost in Trans Nation is found in your local public library. Neither she nor her film are deemed important enough by Wikipedia to have an entry devoted to them. Obviously Wikipedia finds topics like BDSM, as well as erotic animal play etc. more important and devotes space to them instead of to someone whose helpful voice can add much to the discussion. IF I were to buy a Toyota, who from GM or Ford is to name call me to discourage me from even wanting to try out a Toyota? Or which car journalist would feature only some brands and not others - what kind of impartiality is that? If your favoritite mainstream media sources, like Wikipedia, completely OMIT the other side of the discussion, how are you all to make informed choices - even as to what you will actually say and do on September 20th absent half of the discussion on this important topic?
Do you realize, for example that parents of students who are experiencing RAPID ONSET of Gender Dysphoria (or ROGD) will likely participate in the Sept 20 marches ?
These parents note that their children who never appeared to have issues identifying with their birth sex, at some point in their teens suddenly become aware of and appear obsessed with the option of transitioning by whichever means. They naturally are concerned with how that rapid onset can possibly have come to be. They write of their experiences:
To learn about some of the topics these concerned families discuss around their dinner tables please see: https://www.parentsofrogdkids.com and you will find this article, for example:
Family after family describe almost identical circumstances surrounding their child’s new-found “transgender identity,” and the tragedy unfolding in their families is heartbreaking. Children are being coached by internet strangers on how to ‘come out’ to their parents, how to lie to medical professionals to obtain puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, and how to order them online. Behind closed doors, therapists are assuring children they are transgender, and telling them that their parents are abusive if they do not support their transition. Therapists often resort to emotional blackmail, threatening parents that their children will most likely commit suicide if they do not support their child’s transition. Schools are allowing and even encouraging children to socially transition without their parents’ knowledge. Doctors are prescribing hormones and surgeries which can sterilize, harm and disfigure their children against their parents’ wishes. Clinics are connecting children to adult transgender “mentors,” who will coach them along the road to becoming a transgender teen or adult. Families are being torn apart, as our children are encouraged to break ties with their parents and join their “glitter families.” Some of our parents’ stories can be found on our website.
Is it “fascist” to start some form of citizen action to shine a light on the plight of these young people?
The text of this Ontario petition summarizes many of the concerns shared by those who plan to participate in this march. https://www.pafe.ca/stop_bill_42
Susan on the call appeared to imply that this September 20 event would be a threat to health care for adults seeking to medically transition - and as well intentioned people, I am sure many agree that that option should not be removed. Yet it is clear from the organizers of the event that they would like children growing up in a sex-free space.
Can kids not be kids and deal with penis/vagina issues a decade or so later?
Can they not have the Human Right to a ‘Safe Space’ at school? We teachers put up a lot of Safe Space stickers around our schools, to signal to gender diverse students that we would provide a listening ear to their concerns.
Can we not do the same for the young kids in elementary and jr, high who, it would seem today don’t have a place to flee from the messaging that they are NOT OK to remain as they are. Only real creeps and bullies prey on the vulnerable. Do we not see the hand of BigPharma in this who matter…those creeps and bullies whose “brought to you by Pfizer” products have so divided our society, harmed our people and already killed a good THIRTEEN MILLION people world wide. YES, you read that right. See Dr. Denis Ranourt’s recent publications here (now updated to 17 million - note added Jan 1, 2024.)
Why have children’s bodies become the front line of our culture war?
Children are the battle ground in this push to obtain daily customers for life for BigPharma (an even MORE LUCRATIVE DEAL than BigPharma’s push to inject us ONCE a year with vaccine products). When people identifying as gay push back in this battle, even they are smeared with the “far right” type of labelling, as seen in this
”definition” of Gays Against Groomers. On which basis I ask? See Wikipedia’s definition to compare. What if some of your union membership is actually LGBTQ2+ and yet opposes the push to have pro-medical transitioning messaging in schools?
Your call members missed an excellent opportunity to hear from more voices.
Here is a place to start: with the information flyer prepared by one of the many parent organizations involved. See Parents United Canada - Resources for an excellent Q & A style document addressing questions like:
Are you acting out of fear?
Those in the LGBTQ2+ community who have been around the block long enough to remember homophobic protesters in decades past might now be very worried about this march. Yet as referenced in the quotes I started with, we cannot presume that one person’s fear can triumph over another person’s right to share concerns and information.
As long as the Million Person March participants remember the dictum “Your Liberty To Swing Your Fist Ends Just Where My Nose Begins” and eschew violence, they should be able to share the kinds of concerns listed above. Ditto the other way around.
But when I hear that some of the members of the call were referencing more “seasoned” or “experienced” activists who would go so far as to photograph the licence plates of the March participants as an intimidation tactic, I worry on which side the hatred is already so stoked that violence could ensue.
You must understand that the chant from a nude Pride parade participants (I think in New York) went viral among the concerned parent community and still resonates in many ears (including my own, totally involuntary) “We’re here, we’re queer and we’re coming for your children.” This is the stuff of nightmares for most parents - having anyone “COME for their children!!”
Here would be my advice to you:
Take a deep breath, don’t be ruled by fears. And…
Reach out to the other side…
Inform yourselves instead of maligning those whom you deem outside of your groupthink
Understand that we are all concerned Canadians. What is dividing us is NOT gender ideology but rather the power of the corporate machine that holds NOTHING SACRED - not even human lives - in its quest for profit.
Just remember, somewhere, in some back office, some folks are completely grinning when they see the sudden rise in youngsters suddenly clamouring for what only they can provide… the illusion of happiness through chemicals… Sounds much like the Ching Ching of those who deal in addictive prescription drugs when their profits go up too…. (Have you seen “Canada is Dying?”)
It is the PROFIT MONGERS WHO WILL STOP AT NOTHING in BigCorp/BigPharma who are our real enemy, not our fellow concerned Canadians.
Thank you
Hannah Luise
Concerned Citizen, Mother, Aunt, Family friend & former teacher of many many young people!