Posted on 01/14/2020 9:57:42 AM PST by Kaslin
Last Friday, the highest court in British Columbia, Canada, ruled that a father could not prevent doctors from giving his 15-year-old daughter testosterone injections to 'affirm' her transgender male identity.
Last Friday, the highest court in British Columbia, Canada, ruled that a father could not prevent doctors from giving his 15-year-old daughter testosterone injections to “affirm” her transgender male identity. The court also ruled that the father, Clark*, must “acknowledge and refer to [his daughter Maxine*] as male,” and refrain from talking to the media about her case.
The decision concludes a nearly year-long appeals process that has garnered significant attention in both Canada and the United States. As previously reported, a school counselor identified Maxine as transgender when she was only 12. The school helped her pick out a male name and began treating her as a boy without informing her father.
When Clark found out what was going on, he was deeply uneasy but went along with the school’s recommendation that Maxine see psychologist and LGBT author Dr. Wallace Wong (“Dr. IJ” in the decision). To Clark’s surprise, Wong recommended Maxine begin taking cross-sex hormones at 13.
Suspecting his daughter’s history of mental health issues might be more the cause than the effect of her gender dysphoria, Clark refused to grant immediate permission. He reasoned it would be better for Maxine to wait until she was older before she embarked on any irreversible course of treatment.
Shortly after Maxine’s 14th birthday, however, Dr. Brenden Hursh of BC Children’s Hospital (“Dr. GH” in the decision) informed Clark that his consent was unnecessary — not because Maxine’s mother had consented, but because Maxine was capable of deciding the question on her own. Clark immediately took the matter to court.
In late February 2019, Justice Gregory Bowden of the BC Supreme Court affirmed Hursh’s opinion, ordering that 14-year-old Maxine should begin taking cross-sex hormones on her own prerogative. Bowden further stipulated that if either of Maxine’s parents referred to her using female pronouns or addressed her by her birth name, they would be considered guilty of “family violence.”
The evening of Bowden’s decision, Clark granted an interview to The Federalist in which he referred to his daughter as a girl, “because she is a girl. Her DNA will not change through all these experiments that they do.”
Citing this statement — among other verbal “expressions of rejection of [Maxine’s] gender identity” — the BC Supreme Court convicted Clark of “family violence” in April 2019. Judge Francesca Marzari even issued an order authorizing Clark’s arrest “without warrant” by any police officer who might catch him referring to his daughter “as a girl or with female pronouns.”
Last Friday’s decision walked back these orders to some extent. The BC Court of Appeal opined that Clark’s comments did not constitute family violence and that Clark should be allowed to share his opinion on the case in private. However, the court still demanded that “in general,” Clark must “acknowledge and refer to [Maxine] as male,” and strictly prohibited Clark from speaking to the media about his case.
As mentioned in the court’s ruling, Maxine began taking testosterone in March 2019. In recent months, her voice has deepened, and she has begun to grow masculine facial hair.
Although Clark refused requests for a formal interview, this author has talked with long-standing friends and family. Saturday night, Neil Lavery, a longtime close friend of Clark’s, said Clark’s experience with the courts had “shaken [Clark’s] world” and his “faith in the political and legal system.”
“Anyone who could put themselves in his shoes and see what he’s gone through” would respect him, Lavery said. “Eventually, I think [Maxine is] going to realize that her Dad was sticking up [for her], trying to protect her,” he added.
In the meantime, Friday’s decision from the BC Court of Appeal likely removes any hopes Clark may have had of avoiding the irreversible effects of cross-sex hormones on his daughter. The next step of appeal, if taken, will be the Supreme Court of Canada. Clark previously indicated he would be willing to appeal his case all the way up to the Canadian Supreme Court, but it is unclear whether he will follow through.
*Clark and Maxine are not the real names of the father and daughter involved. Their identities have been concealed by court order. Court documents use the initials CM and MM, respectively, and media refers to Maxine as simply “Max.”
Kanadastan was on a downward trajectory after I left in 2007. Stupid commie country pretending to be a free country. I thought nothing came come close to the ineptitude from previous sh*tty PM’s like Martin or Cretin, but TURDeau makes these clowns look like amateurs..
“What can the father do in this instance?
Move out of the country?”
That’s what I did. American Freepers dont realize what a sh*tty COMMIE country it really is unless you’ve lived there.
being ex-canuck, believe it or not the doctors are UNIONIZED. You cant even sue these assholes or malpractice. Just LEAVE to America. Illegals here have more rights than citizens anyways...
His father decriminalized abortion and homosexuality in the 1960s. That's a good place to start looking.
Thanks for posting and answering your question re the fall of Canada.
I have all ways felt that it started in the late 1960’s when Canada opened its borders to our losers swarming out of America to get away from serving in Nam.
You posted the following.
“1968, like the Rats in Chicago, same year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Canadian_federal_election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Convention
We were living in the DC area and it seemed like most of young America, hated America and many of those haters were going to Canada to live.
My mother had recently moved in the fall of 1967 to the Fairfax, Va area to be near her grand kids, our children and to teach reading there.
Then on April 4, 1968, in Memphis MLK was killed.
There were riots in DC and a lot of DC was set on fire.
After the riots, my mother was informed that she could no longer rank the reading students based on their reading skills/abilities but by what grade they were supposedly in. That was the birth of PCism in our schools.
After the riots, the young men fleeing American for Canada and the riots in Chicago during the rat convention was a topic of discussion in our families.
My Mother, told us and anyone who would listen,”Be glad the losers in America are running to Canada.”
My Mother felt in about 30-49 years, those who had fled America would be destroying Canada as a place to live as they started to rule and ruin Canada as a place to live.
She nailed what would happen in Canada as our scum left here and went up there.
She finished that school term and returned to her home state to teach reading for about 10 years as a consultant until PCism got started there. Then, she retired as a consultant.
She predicted that the PCism would take over our schools shortly in about 2000, and we would have about 2 decades after that,before they took over America.
She felt that President Reagan delayed their takeover for his 8 years.
judges can always try to rationalize using law,
but those doctors have no ethics
Same time we did, starting in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
Trump won 53% of white women votes in 2016.
The “insane” ones are the third world socialist lovers colonizing America.
I remember those days of the young “bride” of Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Many people thought lowly of her, and always did. I didn’t like either one of them, and in keeping with tradition, I loathe their idiot son.
Pierre’s zany, wild, young wife Margaret didn’t help either. Her autobiography was titled “Beyond Reason”.... a very apt descriptor of her life.
“I recall the German family who sought asylum in the US because German law (enacted under the Nazis) forbids homeschooling.”
That was the Uwe and Hannelore Romeike family. They were initially granted asylum but Obama and “Just Us” Holder appealed the decision and won. Obama was intent on having the family deported.
The Romeike family appealed to the Supreme Court but I haven’t read of any news since 2014.
Clouding the issue is that they now have a sixth child, conceived and born in Tennessee, an anchor baby if you will.
Rep David Roe (R-TN) has introduced a bill in congress to provide relief for the family.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/4616
Blue States aren’t much better. Watch “The Red Pill” and “Divorce Corp.”
...a longtime close friend of Clark’s, said Clark’s experience with the courts had “shaken [Clark’s] world” and his “faith in the political and legal system.”
That makes sense, other than, he isn't living under a legal system. The father should systematically and thoroughly rid the Earth of [redacted].
Shortly after Maxine’s 14th birthday, however, Dr. Brenden Hursh of BC Children’s Hospital (“Dr. GH” in the decision) informed Clark that his consent was unnecessary — not because Maxine’s mother had consented, but because Maxine was capable of deciding the question on her own. Clark immediately took the matter to court.
The child has a history of mental health issues and is underage but is competent to make decisions to undertake medical procedures that are irreversible .
This judge is either unaware of this history of mental health issues or is an idiot. I will assume the latter.
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The left is severing parent-child bonds because it wants the Almighty State to take the place of the parent.
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Well, to be fair, they’ve gotten a good start w/ the illegal welfare state, w/ a bit of a boost too from the ‘small-govt’ (R)N(C) from time to time as well.
No, these moms have Munchhausen syndrome. They live vicariously through their children's illnesses, which they themselves have created. If a woman with Munchhausen decides, for example, that her child has cancer and pressures medical providers into subjecting the child to radical treatments, chances are good that she will get caught. But if the same woman decides that her child is "transgender," she gets away with all kinds of child abuse because "transgenderism" is a politically correct and untouchable disorder.
On the bright side, many of these misguided kids will be wealthy some day when all the class action lawsuits are filed against the “doctors” who participated in this crime. Seems likely that these kids will develop cancer and other health problems in the future. This really is a crime.
Honest question for these Canadian judges: Why is 13-14 too young to vote, serve in the military, marry, sign a legally binding contract, or buy tobacco/alcohol but it’s not too young to take life-altering drugs?
I can see why teens would want to opt out of puberty altogether, it is kind of an awkward phase in life. But, to paraphrase the gay rights people, it gets better.
WTF is wrong with people nowadays? I would have left with my child already. This judge is in desperate need of someone forcefully having 36DD implants put in him after castration.
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