I just learned this morning that the CPC (or perhaps their proxies?) are organizing a national day of anti-trans protest in Canada. How frightening!

Esther Spurrill-Jones recently wrote in Prism & Pen that Canada is not immune from the anti-trans fury currently gripping the conservative parts of the United States — as she worried over the consequences of new anti-trans policies impacting the Regina school district where she works.

Her school system has policies in place to respect trans kids and to consider their well-being and human rights. The new provincial policies seem to abrogate that position, seemingly working from the assumption that a transgender identity is a social contagion and that parents must have the right to wield the power of the state to force their beliefs on their children.

New Brunswick's official human rights advocate took a strong stand against that sort of position, arguing forcibly that while parents have an unquestioned right to teach their values to their children, they do not have a right to wield the power of the state to force their values.

Forcing values is what conservatives are all about in the United States these days. Bodily autonomy, even ideological autonomy, are the declared enemies of our conservatives south of the Canadian border.

It sounds like Canada is set to embrace those very same ways of thinking and acting.