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."....
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?
“Adam” is just a mentally challenged woman pretending to be a man.
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.
That's true in Albania...in Zimbabwe...and everywhere in between.
This literary gem he wrote should be an indication of his psyche.
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.
Uh, non existent idea. No such thing as trans. XX or XY. No asterisk for explanations.
Not the guy Gutfeld shows in the picture.
I’ll bet he’s Christophobic.
The bills are not targeting “trans people”. They are targeting grooming of children.
Mexico is a lot closer to Arizona than Canadia.
Transgender man…in other words, a woman with mental health issues.
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.
You need to use the proper pronouns.
It.
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
cant escape mental illness because thats what it is
Reminds me of the black kid who ran away to North Korea.
Aden is the first name. He/she/it should move to Yemen, whose capital is Aden. The whatever might feel safer there.
Reality will not accommodate itself to one’s delusions.
She could probably find a section of Antarctica that is free of transphobic humans.
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