Posted on 02/21/2020 9:46:19 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o
For the past 11 months, Robert Hoogland, a father in Surrey, British Columbia, has been forced to watch as his 14 year-old daughter was “destroyed and sterilized” by court-ordered testosterone injections. After losing his legal appeal to stop the process in January, Rob (previously anonymized as “Clark” or “CD”) is making a desperate attempt to bring his case into the courts of public opinion, even though it breaks a court order demanding his silence about the case.
“I had a perfectly healthy child a year ago, and that perfectly healthy child has been altered and destroyed for absolutely no good reason,” Rob said in an exclusive interview. “She can never go back to being a girl in the healthy body that she should have had. She’s going to forever have a lower voice. She’ll forever have to shave because of facial hair. She won’t be able to have children…”
Rob felt that at the age of 14—when the courts judged his daughter competent to take testosterone without parental consent—she simply did not have the foresight necessary to understand such consequences. Over the course of the past year, Rob has heard his daughter’s voice deepen and crack and watched her begin to grow facial hair.
“Sometimes I just want to scream so that other parents and people will… jump in, understand what’s going on,” Rob said. “There’s a child—and not only mine, but in my case, my child out there having her life ruined,” and yet, Rob felt, “people don’t [even] know.”
Rob’s efforts to raise awareness of his daughter’s plight have come at a high cost. The last time he granted an interview to The Federalist, he was convicted of “family violence” by the BC Supreme Court for his “expressions of rejection of [his daughter’s] gender identity.” He was also placed under threat of immediate arrest if he was caught referring to his daughter as a girl again.
While a January ruling in the BC Court of Appeal vacated that threat, Rob remains under a strict gag order forbidding him from speaking about his daughter’s case in public and requiring that he “acknowledge and refer to [his daughter] as male” in private.
But Rob says he feels a moral responsibility to try to fight the laws and the court rulings which have “destroyed” his daughter. “People need to stand up and realize that [the courts are] sterilizing children, essentially, and mutilating them,” Rob said. “It’s… state-sponsored child abuse.”
Feeling that if he lacked the courage to speak out, he could scarcely expect others to stand up and help him, Rob granted two video interviews to Canadian YouTube commentators about his case. While the interviews garnered a sharp initial interest, the commentators who granted them quickly found themselves under threats of litigation. Rob’s first interview was immediately taken down. Rob’s second interviewer, Laura-Lynn Thompson, faced similar threats, but initially refused to take her video (not currently available in Canada) down.
Last Thursday, Justice Michael Tammen of the British Columbia Supreme Court ordered that Thompson’s interview and various social media posts be taken down. When Thompson stalled, trying to keep a rapidly sharing copy of her interview available to Canadians on Bitchute, the police were sent to her house to demand she take the video down.
Tammen also harshly reprimanded Rob for speaking about his case to the media, warning him that if he broke his silence again, he would likely be cited for contempt of court.
Nevertheless, Rob says he is unwilling to back down. “Whatever happens to me pales in comparison to what’s already happened to my daughter.” Rob feels there is no way for him to fight “this child abuse” of his daughter except to force his story out into the open.
The path forward is not likely to be easy, but Rob said he feels a responsibility to tell his story that goes much deeper than anything court costs or even jail time could deflect. “Let’s say in 5, 10 years my daughter is detransitioning, and she turns to me and says, you know, ‘Dad or Mom, why did none of you do anything to stop this?’…. When my daughter asks me that question, I’ll say, ‘I did everything that I possibly could. There was nothing more I could do, and then when there was nothing more I could do, I continued on because I didn’t want other parents to go through what I went through.”
(Rob has set up a crowdfunding page for those who may wish to help.)
Jeremiah Keenan is a pro-life activist and freelance writer. He recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he argued with leftists and wrote for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He also earned a bachelors in mathematics and assisted the sociology department researching religious opinion trends on eugenics, race, birth control, and homosexuality. Jeremiah grew up in China and lives, at the moment, in Ohio. He can be contacted at JeremiahJKeenan@gmail.com.
” Robert Hoogland, a father in Surrey, British Columbia, has been forced to watch as his 14 year-old daughter was “destroyed and sterilized” by court-ordered testosterone injections.”
court-ordered testosterone injections. (14 year-old daughter)
This could NEVER happen HERE. /s
Thank you for posting this. Shameful and sad.
just wait
This is absolutely heart breaking. Pray for that poor guy and his entire family. I can’t imagine having to endure state sponsored child abuse and mutilation of one of my children. This is almost beyond believe...except that today it’s all too believable.
What a pretty girl the monstrous government and courts of Canada are destroying. It’s a tragedy. Props to the Dad for doing all he can for his daughter against impossible odds.
I cannot say what I am thinking. I have a six y/o daughter that is all girl, princesses, unicorns, pink, ponytails, stuffed animals, dolls,..... So I hope this is never an issue. But she also like lizards, toads, frogs, snakes, bugs, muddy puddles.....
Almost happened in Texas.
I would have moved what money i could and left the Canada?
This is another great example of why a couple must be sure they have similar values BEFORE THEY GET MARRIED!!!
The judges who ordered this child-torture should be injected with lye
If I was a father that had a judicial tyrant or politicians that did that to my child, I’d put every last one of them in the ground. This is pure evil.
“court-ordered testosterone injections”
No, no, no, it was not a dis-embodied entity (the court) commanding the injection, it was an individual, under color of law, assuming control over a family and trifling with the mind, body, and soul of another human being and that particular person needs an injection of his own — as in death penalty.
Our young-adult Eagle Scout nephew has decided to be a girl. Calls himself Tara and dresses girly. Probably turned out by some homosexual scout leader, but enabled by his parents accepting his perversion.
bkmk
Yet another suicide in the making.
I’ll type it: Why there’s a 2A here.
That’s just a healthy, curious girl! Our elder daughter is drop-dead gorgeous, married with a son, and has been picking up toads and lizards her whole life.
This poor man... My heart goes out to him... I can’t even imagine...
Why are Republican politicians so quiet about these abominations? My guess — too busy bragging about the stock market and criticizing Bloomberg.
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