By Michelle Zeh

Social engineering: The artificial controlling or changing of how a society develops – Cambridge Dictionary

The LGBTQ+ community enjoys the entire month of June to celebrate their diversity, yet it is somehow not enough because November is now designated as Transgender Awareness Month. Nowhere was this seemingly more prevalent than in Canada’s schools. SOGI — sexual orientation gender identity — education (more like indoctrination) is an integral part of the curriculum and it’s downright frightening. Disguised as an anti-bullying initiative, SOGI is merely a smokescreen for a very small minority of gender ideologues who want to push the majority into identity politics and control their beliefs and language. It is a social engineering project backed by our woke government, powerful activists and lobby groups, and it encourages hatred toward traditional, or what is now known as “cisgender” men and women.

Innocent children are being mentally and emotionally manipulated toward gender dysphoria in schools today. Students are taught that gender is something assigned to them at birth, not at conception. The fact that biological sex, which is based on chromosomes that define 99.999% of the cells in the body as either male or female miraculously has nothing to do with whether they are male or female! It is apparently how they feel inside that matters and those feelings may be everchanging, hence the implementation of gender pronouns and the use of the term “gender fluidity.” Gender, while binary for millennia, has evolved to become a vague, immeasurable term in recent years. A friend’s 15-year-old came home from school recently and asked her mother “Did you know that there are 72 genders?” Last I checked for this article, it was 81 and there are surely more by now. Young children and teenagers have enough to contend with in their daily lives without having gender dysphoria-inducing subject matter thrust upon them in a setting where reading, writing and arithmetic are supposed to be the fundamentals.

Primary school students are taught the anatomical terminology to describe their genitalia. They are being read to by drag queens in public libraries and classrooms. They are exposed to such books as “Introducing Teddy, a gentle story of gender and friendship” which is about Thomas, a child’s boy teddy bear who wants to be a girl teddy bear called Tillie. “When Kathy is Keith” is a story about a young girl who identifies as a boy, and, “Mommy, Mama and Me” is about a lesbian couple and their nonbinary toddler. There is also a gay couple version called “Daddy, Papa and Me”, again featuring a non-binary toddler. These are just a few examples of the Equity and Inclusive Education, LGBTQ+ fiction and non-fiction reading list available to teachers in the York Region District School Board in Ontario. Nowhere on the YRDSB website can parents find this list and yet they, like every other public school board, are pushing this on children.

In at least one Ontario school in the Durham District School Board, primary children are hearing about all things transgender over the PA system during morning announcements. That in itself goes against the school board’s guidelines about age-appropriate exposure. There are trans rights and trans bullying awareness posters in the primary classroom hallways. There was even a day to acknowledge transgender parents. In October, they had different days to celebrate being lesbian, intersex and bisexual. Again, the entire month of June is dedicated to people who identify as LGBTQ+. Parents are not being notified that this is happening, there is zero transparency. The only way parents are seeing this is if they have reason to be in the school, or if their child tells them. This particular school also chose to fly the transgender flag underneath the Canadian flag, outside the school. Complaints from parents and students alike are met with accusations of systemic oppression, transphobia, biphobia and more.

On October 31, True North’s Sue Ann Levy broke the story about a highly-sexualized census being distributed to students within the Toronto District School Board. She said, “It outrages me as a lesbian to read how TDSB would endeavour to ram such concepts down the throats of vulnerable students. Schools are not a social science experiment. Kids are there to learn academics, not have highly sexualized and in many ways, fringe concepts shoved at them.” The student census (https://tnc. news/2022/10/31/levy-tdsb-survey) included asking elementary students if they knew about transgender practices such as breast binding and tucking, where males contort their genitals to hide them and appear more feminized. TDSB pulled the census three days after it was released and though the reasons why are not completely clear, they stated that it went public without proper review.

For the teachers, there are directives in place. The YRDSB (York Region District School Board Gender Identity and Expression Guidelines is a 36-page document that pushes teachers to view settler colonialism and cissexism as oppressive and to embrace all things gender-diverse. They are to be aware of what that means for every one of their students, including their desire to use washrooms and change rooms for the gender they identify with. They are coached on ways to make their classrooms more gender-affirming and on how to disengage themselves from “cisnormative” or binary thinking and speaking. They must use a student’s chosen names and pronouns while keeping in mind that these can change on a whim based on how the child is feeling. They may help students under the age of 16 to change their gender marker in the school system without notifying the parents. While the child’s legal name is printed at the top of their report card, they are to use the child’s chosen name/s and pronoun/s throughout the report at the child’s discretion. They are even directed to challenge “assumptions” about size, strength and ability, based on “outdated binary logic” in athletics. In other words, if a trans-male-to-female athlete wins all the games in a female sport, too bad for the female athletes who complain or question it. The world saw this absurdity when Lia Thomas, a trans female swimmer won the NCAA Division I title for the University of Pennsylvania, finishing leaps and bounds ahead of her natal female teammates.

For children who still believe in Santa Claus and The Tooth Fairy, an age-appropriate reality for them, why are transgender ideologies being pushed on them? Is it any wonder that they are coming home from these institutions and announcing that they are gender-fluid, non-binary, transgender etc? This Is happening with multiple youths in my extended family so it’s not random. Bewildered parents turn to pediatricians or family physicians for answers and guidance and since there is an increasingly long wait for specialty gender clinics, primary care doctors are being left with no choice but to tackle the complex issues surrounding gender dysphoria in their young patients. As doctors turn to their governing bodies and medical journals for guidance, they are told that the child needs gender-affirming care in line with the World Professional Association of Transgender Health’s (WPATH) accepted standards for care.

The Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) published an article titled “Management of gender dysphoria in adolescents in primary care” in January 2019, at about the same time experts were reporting that more youth with no known history of gender identity issues, were suddenly identifying as transgender. The authors urged doctors to take a “thoughtful, affirming” approach and to avoid “influencing the adolescent to move down a path they would not have chosen for themselves.” It goes on to say “The youth’s voice is always paramount”, and, “Although the consensus in the medical community in the 1960s and 1970s was to view gender variance through a disease model in which associated behaviours, expression and declared identity were deemed pathological and in need of correction, the current approach is an affirming one that does not view gender variance as pathological.”

In August 2018, a peer-reviewed study published in PLOS ONE titled “Parent reports of adolescents and young adults perceived to show signs of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria” described what can only be called cluster outbreaks of gender dysphoria among friends during or after puberty. It further noted that 86.7% of the parents reported an increase in their child’s social media/internet use, or belonged to a friend group in which one or multiple friends became transgender-identified during a similar timeframe or both. This suggests that social and peer contagion could be behind the phenomenon and that some teens (82.8% trans-female-to-male) are being influenced by social media, including YouTube transition videos. The study has been and continues to be attacked by transgender advocates as methodologically flawed, yet I ask you, what better group to gauge this phenomenon than the parents experiencing this sudden radical change in their children?

Dr. Miriam Grossman, a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist interviewed for The Epoch Time’s American Thought Leaders program stated that there’s a correlation between the Covid Lockdowns, increased social media use, and an uptick in children claiming to be transgender. Interestingly, during the interview, Dr. Grossman also pointed to a large study published in Nature Communications in 2020 suggesting that trans children are six times more likely to have autism and other related conditions.

So what exactly is gender dysphoria? The word dysphoria means “a state of feeling very unhappy, uneasy, or dissatisfied.” Gender dysphoria occurs when a person feels a persistent incongruence or disconnect between their biological sex and the one they identify with for at least 6 months. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), a resource used by psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers, and licensed professional counselors, gender dysphoria prevalence accounts for 0.005-0.014% of the population for biological males and 0.002-0.003% for biological females. This translates to anywhere between 1 in 30,000 people to 1 in 110,000 people. People born with ambiguous genitalia, called Intersex, (0.018% or about 1 in 5000) are not classified as having gender dysphoria.

So what is gender-affirming care, or GAC? According to the World Health Organization, GAC encompasses a range of social, psychological, behavioural, and medical interventions “designed to support and affirm an individual’s gender identity” when it conflicts with the gender they were assigned at birth. Once gender dysphoria has been diagnosed, parents will be told, usually in front of their child, that if they don’t go along with whatever the child wants, they are increasing their child’s risk of suicide. GAC can be detrimental to a child’s health. Breastbinding, for instance, is known to create several health risks, including difficulty breathing, backache, skin rashes, bacterial and fungal infections, and deformity of the ribs. Testicle-tucking and penis-taping can cause urinary trauma, infections and swelling of the scrotum and epididymis, causing intense pain. Parents are told that puberty-blocking drugs are safe and effective and completely reversible. They will simply pause puberty so that the child can make up their mind over time whether they want to pursue transitioning to the opposite gender or not.

The list of side effects of puberty blockers like the commonly prescribed Lupron includes severe joint pain, osteoporosis, asexuality, compromised immune system, sterility and mental health issues such as severe depression and suicidal ideation. Cross-sex hormone therapy is known to cause deep vein thrombosis, osteoporosis, cardiovascular issues and cancer. Sex reassignment surgery generally comes later and is covered by universal healthcare in Canada, (yes these surgeries are paid for by tax payers).

According to transhealthcanada.org, at least 55 surgeons are willing to perform these irreversible procedures on your child. They have given major surgeries like mastectomy, hysterectomy, vaginectomy metoidioplasty or phalloplasty for female-to-male transitions, and, vaginoplasty, clitoroplasty, labiaplasty and breast augmentation for male-to-female transitions, simple names like top and bottom surgery. No amount of hormone therapy or surgery will change biology but it sure will help to facilitate a decrease in the population.

Scott Newgent, a trans man who appeared in the Daily Wire’s documentary titled “What Is A Woman?”, is the founder of TReVoices.org, an organization opposed to childhood medical transition. Scott claims doctors and Big Pharma stand to make USD 1.3 million for each child that transitions and further states one long-term study shows that suicide rates are highest for transgender people 7-10 years after transition surgery. Scott further stated that phalloplasty has a 67% complication rate. I wish all youth considering surgery would watch this documentary because they are never going to hear the truth from the doctors that stand to make a fortune from pushing drugs and carving them up. It is truly reprehensible that this marginalized group is being used as political pawns of gender ideologues and the gravy trains of butchers and Big Pharma.

Back to the schools, they have been infiltrated at the board level and as such, the problem is not going to go away, even with major pushback from parents. The government has their backs. Bill C-16 passed in June 2017 recognizes gender identity and expression as a human right and sections of the criminal code have been updated as they relate to sentencing for hate crimes as they relate to hate speech. Speaking out against transgender ideologies is classified as hate speech and can result in arrest and even jail time. An anonymous father in BC spent six months in jail and is facing trial for refusing to call his trans son by his preferred pronouns in court while fighting against the hospital that was ready to (and did) inject cross-sex hormones into his child.

The case of Kayla Lemieux, an Ontario transgender high school shop teacher who wears a giant set of prosthetic breasts with protruding nipples to class is another example of just how crazy things have become. No amount of petitions, protests or complaints have brought forth any results to have this teacher ordered to remove the ridiculous getup she is wearing. Oakville Trafalgar High School and the Halton District School Board firmly defend her right to wear whatever she wants, citing equitable treatment without discrimination based on gender identity and freedom of expression.

So what can you do? Write to your MLA, your school board trustee and your MP and express your views clearly. Network with like-minded parents. Form learning pods or homeschool. If you can’t afford to take your child out of the system, I can’t stress enough to monitor what they are consuming on social media and keep the lines of communication wide open and honest. That’s all I’ve got.

Editor’s Note: While we celebrate diversity and support personal choices on how to live one’s life, we do not feel it is appropriate to embed these kinds of thoughts and ideas into children, especially at such a young age. We bring this topic to you simply for the sake of raising awareness as it seems most parents have no idea what is being done to their children in schools these days. Talk to your school board and take an active role in helping determine what you feel is best for your child.