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Heartbroken Dad Of Trans Teen Breaks Gag To Beg For End Of ‘State-Sponsored Child Abuse
The Federalist ^ | February 21, 2020 | Jeremia Keenan

Posted on 02/21/2020 9:54:55 AM PST by Kaslin

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 Hoogland says.


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.”

Father: my 14-year-old daughter was destroyed by court-ordered trans hormones


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Editorial; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: canada; childabuse; health; insanity; lgbt; linguisticgymnastics; parentalrights; roberthooglan; trans; transchildren; transgender

1 posted on 02/21/2020 9:54:55 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Almost happened in Texas.


2 posted on 02/21/2020 9:56:45 AM PST by AU72
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To: Kaslin
" . . . 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."

Just like Roger Stone in the US and Tommy Robinson in England.

Where are the civil libertarians? Where are the MSM defending free speech? As the left increases its power, they are silencing people just like in the old Soviet Union and in today's China and North Korea.
3 posted on 02/21/2020 10:00:03 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Kaslin
I've suspected for some time that there is more to this story than meets the eye. It sounds like the family situation was dysfunctional to begin with, and from what I understand the father doesn't have custody of the daughter.

A 14 year-old isn't an adult, but she's old enough to know better. If I had done what this girl is doing, my father probably would have tossed me into a woodchipper.

4 posted on 02/21/2020 10:01:18 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Oh, but it's hard to live by the rules; I never could and still never do.")
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To: Kaslin

They have eyes but cannot see. DrMengele roams the halls of “medicine”. Future generations will damn this culture that allows such evil experimentation on its youth.


5 posted on 02/21/2020 10:04:19 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Kaslin

I don’t know the rest of the story, but I also don’t care (much) how this man’s daughter got so messed up. I admire him for standing up to pure evil while knowing it will cost him. It’s nice to see a real man do the right thing, even when he has lost almost everything and stands to lose what little he has left. I hope and pray that his daughter will somehow be rescued.


6 posted on 02/21/2020 10:05:18 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Kaslin

Notice how quickly the State kept parents from having any say in their child’s abortion or genital-mutilating-operation? This is what statists love. They hate that parents have any say in the life of their child. Statists want to end parental involvement (except that you’ll still have the financial responsibility, the insurance, the medical bills, etc.).

The end goal of the statists is to end the family. A Communist goal: abolish the family. Have the collectivity bring up the child. Because parents “oppress” the child.


7 posted on 02/21/2020 10:07:49 AM PST by I want the USA back (Journalists Take Bits of Reality and Slot them into the Existing Script. -Friedman.)
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To: Kaslin

My heart goes out to this man. This is his daughter but he cannot do anything about this because the courts know better!!!!


8 posted on 02/21/2020 10:08:40 AM PST by LoveMyFreedom
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To: Alberta's Child

The only thing more to the story is why the father wasn’t able to be there for his daughter to prevent this, otherwise, not necessarily so.

Liberals have bought into the idea that we can be anything we want, damn the consequences, and reverse it when we want. Though nature says that isn’t so. God says there are consequences, liberals resent that.


9 posted on 02/21/2020 10:08:47 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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To: Kaslin

Judges have addresses just like everyone else.

I’m just saying.

L


10 posted on 02/21/2020 10:10:10 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Kaslin

We have people that laugh at the notion that we are living in the last days, and that the world is about to be cast into the biblical Tribulation period. Well, keep laughing. You won’t hear the trumpet blow that calls God’s people home, but you’ll see that things really can get much worse than they are right now.

And you’ll regret that you didn’t listen to us Bible bangers.


11 posted on 02/21/2020 10:12:29 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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A trans is just like a guy. Except without reason or accountability


12 posted on 02/21/2020 10:13:53 AM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: Kaslin

Fascist Canada has not fallen far from the mother country. Individual freedom is dead in Britain and Canada, WW 2 was in vain as Hitler and Stalin have won. (A very clear example of the compassion, diversity and freedom that would be allowed under the extreme left)


13 posted on 02/21/2020 10:23:50 AM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: Steve_Seattle

Did they force Roger Stone to change his gender. You didn’t read the piece did you?


14 posted on 02/21/2020 10:24:58 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I thought it was obvious I was talking about the gag order, not the sex-change treatments.


15 posted on 02/21/2020 10:27:10 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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