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This transgender man moved to Canada to escape transphobia. He found it (T)here, too (boo hoo!)
CBC news ^ | Nov 30, 2023 | Kit Kolbegger

Posted on 11/30/2023 10:22:13 AM PST by jerod

Canada has long been seen as a safe haven. Now, that’s changing

Aden Polydoros spent more than a decade living in Arizona as a transgender man until, he says, a transphobic experience in the summer of 2022 prompted him to move to Canada.

He moved to Vancouver this April. He says he's lucky. As an author, it was easy to take his work with him. He also started studying screenwriting as he hopes to write for movies some day.

Polydoros, 27, says he feels safer in Canada. But nationwide protests in September over LGBTQ-inclusive school policies disturbed him.

Many demonstrations were held under the same name, "1 Million March 4 Kids." Organizers say children should not be taught about LGBTQ identities in school, which they say amounts to the "indoctrination and sexualization" of children.

The transgender community and its allies reject this accusation, arguing that education helps LGBTQ children describe and understand themselves, and know they are not alone.

They see allegations of "indoctrination" as thinly veiled transphobia, in part because they echo homophobic arguments used in past decades against lesbians and gay men.

"I thought I wasn't going to encounter [transphobia] here," Polydoros said. "I guess I was a bit naive."

He's not the only one to have second thoughts. Activist Erin Reed, who tracks anti-transgender legislation in the U.S., says hundreds of state-level bills targeting trans people have forced some people to consider moving to friendlier states. And, now, with restrictive national legislation being tabled on topics like gender-affirming care, transgender people in the military and teaching about gender identity in schools, Reed says more Americans may look for refuge abroad.

Canada has long been seen, by many on the American left, as more progressive, for reasons including its earlier legalization of gay marriage. "Moving to Canada" was a common joke for some — a supposedly serious but largely unfulfilled vow for others — during the presidency of George W. Bush.

"Until this point, the anti-trans panic had seemed like it had not reached Canada," Reed said. "Now that, of course, has changed."....



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Changed? For the better that is...

Associated Producer Kit Kolbegger is a journalist and associate producer with CBC News, based in Toronto. 'They' have previously worked on the Tainted Water investigation with the Institute for Investigative Journalism.

So the CBC assigned a 'transgender' journalist to do a report on 'transphobia'??? Doesn't the obvious bias of this 'IT' disqualify 'it' from being objective?

1 posted on 11/30/2023 10:22:13 AM PST by jerod
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To: jerod

“Adam” is just a mentally challenged woman pretending to be a man.


2 posted on 11/30/2023 10:23:06 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: jerod

No one gives a crap about the societal things going on that disturb me. He needs to put the big girl panties on and deal with it.


3 posted on 11/30/2023 10:24:25 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: jerod
Normal,intelligent adults will almost always see "trans" as either a violation of the laws of nature or a violation of the laws of God and,thus,will find it foolish (or worse).

That's true in Albania...in Zimbabwe...and everywhere in between.

4 posted on 11/30/2023 10:28:54 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: jerod

This literary gem he wrote should be an indication of his psyche.

5 posted on 11/30/2023 10:29:21 AM PST by simpson96
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To: jerod

If folks would begin using the literal term for what this person is - it would go a long way towards correcting the wrong it pushes:

#GenderFraud

And it should be prosecuted as any other act of fraud. Claiming or pretending to be any gender other than the biological sex you are born is an act of fraud.


6 posted on 11/30/2023 10:29:33 AM PST by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
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To: jerod

Uh, non existent idea. No such thing as trans. XX or XY. No asterisk for explanations.


7 posted on 11/30/2023 10:31:34 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: jerod

Not the guy Gutfeld shows in the picture.


8 posted on 11/30/2023 10:31:42 AM PST by Daveinyork
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To: jerod

I’ll bet he’s Christophobic.


9 posted on 11/30/2023 10:32:06 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: jerod

The bills are not targeting “trans people”. They are targeting grooming of children.


10 posted on 11/30/2023 10:36:16 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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This transgender man moved to Canada to escape transphobia. He found it (T)here, too (boo hoo!)

Mexico is a lot closer to Arizona than Canadia.

11 posted on 11/30/2023 10:40:07 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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Transgender man…in other words, a woman with mental health issues.


12 posted on 11/30/2023 10:47:14 AM PST by GrumpyOldGuy
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Anyone that either wants to cut off his penis or sew up her vagina is mentally unstable and needs to be institutionalized, not only for their own safety, but for the safety of society.


13 posted on 11/30/2023 10:51:00 AM PST by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: simpson96

You need to use the proper pronouns.

It.


14 posted on 11/30/2023 10:55:18 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: joe fonebone
From a non MD and non lawyer, it would seem to be a form of BIID, Body Identity Integrity Disorder of which there are several sub diagnoses. None treated by amputation.

That said you seem to assume surgery is a characteristic of being trans but only a minority of trans identifiers opt for surgical intervention. Demographic and temporal trends in transgender identities and gender confirming surgery

15 posted on 11/30/2023 11:01:39 AM PST by SJackson (In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.)
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To: No name given

cant escape mental illness because thats what it is


16 posted on 11/30/2023 11:47:10 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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Reminds me of the black kid who ran away to North Korea.


17 posted on 11/30/2023 11:51:19 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: No name given

Aden is the first name. He/she/it should move to Yemen, whose capital is Aden. The whatever might feel safer there.


18 posted on 11/30/2023 12:15:25 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: jerod

Reality will not accommodate itself to one’s delusions.


19 posted on 11/30/2023 12:31:07 PM PST by drwoof
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To: jerod

She could probably find a section of Antarctica that is free of transphobic humans.


20 posted on 11/30/2023 12:46:52 PM PST by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)
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