canada is supposed to touch the Pacific

this would be true if they were both 17, even.

Well I do suspect that if they (the most ardent anti-trans activists) could find a way to entirely eradicate transgender people they would. Their rhetoric is constantly pushing the overton window to further extremes. At first it was “youth transition should require parental consent,” now it’s “HRT should be banned even for adults,” “trans people should be legally considered their gender at birth,” “trans people should not be allowed to travel internationally,” “trans people should be considered mentally unstable,” “agitating for trans rights should be considered terrorism,” “it should be illegal to crossdress in public.” I am having trouble imagining any kind of point they could agree is too extreme, but we’ll see how it plays out.

True, though I think this squeaks through by the nature that a genocide doesn’t actually need to completely eradicate a population. For instance, the holocaust did not eliminate all Jews. But they can prevent or disincentivize young people from transitioning; people experience magnitudes higher dsyphoria if they transition later in life, which leads to higher suicide rates. So in effect, this could kill many people.

Also, they can encourage people to remain closeted, making it dangerous or illegal to be openly or visibly transgender. This may not be a literal killing, but you could see it as akin to cultural genocide, which was recognized as a form of genocide since as long as the term “genocide” existed. (It does sound like it could be a neologism, but it’s not.)

ah I didn’t realize this. I stand corrected.

This is from the OneBC party, which only has 2 members, and nobody even voted for this party in the first place. These are formerly conservative MPs which were kicked out of their own party.

Now, the conservative party is pretty anti-transgender itself, but I would not really consider anything the OneBC party brings forward to be news-worthy unless it’s picked up by at least one other party.

Do you know of any protests that I could join?

I am having some difficulty understanding you, but I’m interested to get your point. Can you rephrase this perhaps?

IMO the problem is not really what happened in the past – we don’t tend to bother fighting for justice for peoples that were completely wiped out. It’s the ongoing problems that are what really matters. Land acknowledgments are a proxy for this, but an schelling-effective one; one that people can rally around.

I don’t get it… why can’t Canada just totally divest from Israel?

that deny the sovereignty of the Crown within British Columbia or that attribute collective guilt to individuals based on race, ancestry or the actions of Canadian historical figures.

Well this is just dishonest. Land acknowledgments just acknowledge the land was stolen by settlers. You do not have to believe in the notion of collective guilt to be in favour of land acknowledgment. It’s not about ascribing blame to anyone alive today; it’s about pointing out a problem that remains unsolved.