Gender Activists Co-Opted British Columbia’s Courts. Meet the Woman Who Stood Up to Them

Quillette ^ | 05/19/2021 | Karin Litzcke

[tbw2]

The court heard the case of a mother attempting to prevent her 17-year-old daughter from having surgery to remove her breasts. The daughter wanted to transition to the male gender, and provincial authorities supported her wish. The mother still regarded her daughter as a female. The question of her gender transition was the very issue before the court. Yet when the mother and her counsel referred to the daughter as “her,” the judge challenged the mother’s right to do so.

In the UK, they have a similar pronoun practice direction. Recently, a complainant of an assault was repeatedly told by a judge to refer to her assailant using the female pronouns, when he was, in fact, a biological male. The judge is reported to have described the complainant´s pronoun infractions as “bad grace” when explaining his reasons for not awarding her financial compensation for the assault (although he could have done so). Sadly, the court compelled her to describe her evidence under oath in a way that hid reality instead of revealing the truth and to add insult to injury she was denied rightful legal compensation. My worry is that such a development could occur in B.C. given the new directive.

[tbw2]

Gender Activists Co-Opted British Columbia’s Courts. Meet the Woman Who Stood Up to Them
https://quillette.com/2021/05/19/gender-activists-co-opted-british-columbias-courts-meet-the-woman-who-stood-up-to-them/

[monkeyshine]

Just my personal opinion, I think people should live in the real world at least a few years before making such types of decisions. 17 years old? Go to college. Flirt with people. Have a few drinks. Expand your horizons and your knowledge of societies and the world around you. Grow up, and then decide.

[Chicory]

Mine are realshe and realher, if anyone were so foolish as to ask me.

[a fool in paradise]

Will doctors support anorexics in living their chosen lifestyle and embracing their wanted body image?

Would any doctor remove ribs “just because” an anorexic person wanted “less bones showing”?

[fr_freak]

Just my personal opinion, I think people should live in the real world at least a few years before making such types of decisions...Grow up, and then decide.

My opinion is that we shouldn't be enabling mentally ill people to maim and disfigure themselves, and we damn sure shouldn't be pretending that their mental illness is anything remotely resembling normal.

[Dr. Sivana]

It is getting so if I should be so unfortunate as to find myself in a court like this, that I may have to request an interpreter, as I speak standard English.

Example:

Example:
Judge: Will the witness tell us by which pronouns he wishes to be referred to?
Witness: ??
Interpreter: The judge wants to know if you consider yourself to be a man, a woman, or something else.
Witness: My name is Joe Smith. I am a man.
Interpreter: Your honor, the witness would like pronouns he and him.

[Chicory]

From the article:

I turn to a UK example to illustrate the point. In the UK, they have a similar pronoun practice direction. Recently, a complainant of an assault was repeatedly told by a judge to refer to her assailant using the female pronouns, when he was, in fact, a biological male.

***The judge is reported to have described the complainant´s pronoun infractions as “bad grace” when explaining his reasons for not awarding her financial compensation for the assault (although he could have done so).***

Sadly, the court compelled her to describe her evidence under oath in a way that hid reality instead of revealing the truth and to add insult to injury she was denied rightful legal compensation.

Wow, words cannot express my horror at this!

[Dr. Sivana]

My stanbdard English is getting the best of me. The judge's line should read<

Will the
Judge: Will the witness tell us by which pronouns the witness wishes to be referred to?

[algore]

There are more than 100 pronouns. Here’s the full list…

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/List-of-pronouns.htm

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/3958994/posts

[sauropod]

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[tbw2]

“Transdisabled” is a thing

[tbw2]

There’s already a heavy in-group language and elitist secondary vocabulary associated with social justice. You’re part of the enlightened upper class if you’re “woke”.

[tbw2]

She was denied financial compensation for her rape because she wouldn’t refer to her male rapist as “she”. Even when describing the rape.

[a fool in paradise]

But anorexics and cutters are still shamed for their body modifications and treated ALWAYS as mentally ill.

[Albion Wilde]

I see that not many posts here reveal that anyone actually read the article— commenting on their opinions of transgenderism, when this article describes that the BC courts are way down the road of having declared transgenderism’s wildest dreams to be absolute reality, and punishing speech as a result.

The long-winded, badly edited but otherwise significant article was about the difficulty faced by any members of the BC legal profession who serve as attorneys for those opposed to the transgender disfiguration of minor children. The parents and their legal counsel are compelled by the court to argue their case in the trans-favoring pronoun language that is already prejudicial agains the parents’ defense of their child’s natural biology.

[tbw2]

Thank you

[tbw2]

In the article, the discussion is about an attorney fighting the legal profession’s decision to say you must use preferred pronouns. Even when the case is arguing whether a minor girl will get surgery to have her breasts removed.

[tbw2]

In the article, it discusses real world cases where these demands are being made. A woman was forced to refer to her rapist as “she” because he identified as such, and initially refusing to do so cost her financial compensation. Or a mother forced to refer to her daughter as he when the court case is “does my teenager get her breasts removed over my objections”.