Canada Today: Father in Jail for Refusing To Recognize His Biological Daughter as a “Boy”

This is British Columbia under a Left-wing, socialist Government. The inmates have obviously taken over the asylum!

From Everyday For Life Canada

It would be next to impossible to make up or believe this if it weren't real. However, a Canadian father for "misgendering" his 14-year-old biological daughter has been arrested and sent to jail. His crime? Robert Hoogland, the father, refuses to "correctly" address his daughter as a "male" and for this he's was in contempt of court. He was ordered to stop referring to his transgender daughter with female pronouns even though it's the truth. So, for refusing to use “she” and “her” Hoogland is now in violation of a court order and Canadian law.

The fact that Attorney General of British Columbia issued a warrant for Hoogland's arrest is a warning to all Canadian parents who want to protect their children from transitioning: don't do it. You will be charged and even jailed for defending your children from possible harm. The school, the courts and the medical profession have all sided against the father. The state knows better.

From the beginning Hoogland, like most parents, questioned his daughter's decision to become a "boy." After all, she was just a child making a life altering and possibly very dangerous choice. But the medical system, the school and his wife disagreed. Hoogland continued to try and stop his daughter's transitioning, which he believes to be harmful.

Hoogland says that his daughter began to consider transitioning after she was exposed at school to content on topics dealing with sexual and gender identity. These school program materials on the subject, in British Columbia, are called SOGI 123. Gender fluidity is also a component found in Ontario's 2019 Health and Physical Education program which many parents opposed. Parents may not realize it, but the unscientific ideology has entered both the public and Catholic schools.

The transitioning dispute ended up in court, and last year Justice Francesca Marzari of the British Columbia Supreme Court ordered Hoogland to support his daughter's choice. He was told not to address his daughter as a girl. This is now the state of Canadian law. Bill C-16 the legislation passed in 2016 changed the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code. It added the gender identity and gender expression to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination. Hoogland is now charged with violating a terrible law. It forces people to think and act in the way the state or the school system wants them to behave. We can see this in Hoogland's case. It's a total attack on freedom, justice, parental rights and the righ to be a child.

It was University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson that warned Canadians this would happen. He was strongly criticized for his opposition to the law. In reaction to what has happened to Hoogland, Peterson tweeted: "This could never happen, said those who called my stance against Bill C16 alarmist. I read the law and saw that it was, to the contrary, inevitable." And added this warning, "And if you think it's going to stop there, think again, sunshine..." 

Hoogland's daughter in Grade 7 was allowed to transition at school. Her name was changed and a psychologist was consulted and testosterone medication prescribed. A treatment was put in place together with the local hospital. The father was never consulted. He found about her transitioning in a yearbook and saw that his daughter identity had been changed to a "boy."

In a Post Millennial article, Hoogland states what any decent and loving parent would say, “What kid who’s 13 is thinking about a family and having children? Not many. What kind of father would I be if, let’s say in five, ten years, my daughter is de-transitioning, and she turns to me and says — ‘Why did none of you do anything to stop this? I was a child. None of you stuck your neck out for me back then.' When my daughter asks me that question, I’ll say, I did everything that I possibly could."

Bill C-16 is a horrible law that must be repealed. A democratic state must not force its citizens to think and act in ways contrary to conscience, family values and freedom. Shame on Canada for passing a law that hurts children and violates parental rights. And what about the possible present and future irreparable harm that legal and educational acceptance of transitioning may do to chidren? It's hard to believe that in Canada 2021 a father is sent to jail for being legally forced to recognize his biological daughter as a "boy."