Protecting a class that doesn't exist

Trans students don’t exist in Canada

Vincent J. Curtis

16 June 23

A sign of the power of the trans lobby is the recent editorial of the Globe and Mail calling on the government to protect a class of people that don’t exist.  “The state has a duty to protect trans students” the Globe thundered.

It’s illegal in Canada to perform sex change surgery on minors; and students, generally speaking, are minors; so unless illegal surgery has taken place in Canada, trans students don’t exist.

There might be children on puberty blockers; but that doesn’t make them trans; not until after surgery.  So, what have you got except kids putting on airs?  “I want to be a boy!”  “I think I’m really a girl!”

This is the kind of behavior that invites bullying, mockery, and harassment; and schools should be on guard against those inevitable responses.  Schools ought to stop school fights, but they still happen anyway.  Like it or not, the rising generation is going to sort itself out in the usual way of humans, and it is the duty of the current generation to make sure that that process remains within civilized bounds.

The observation here is the power of the trans lobby.  They can induce (bully?) mature adults to demand special treatment for their alleged people, a class of people that don’t exist.  Now, that’s mockery!

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What makes a trans person “trans”?  A kid on puberty blockers remains a pre-pubescent kid.  Surgery certainly begins the transition to trans process, but in Canada such surgery is illegal on minors.  Taking the hormones of the opposite sex to develop the physical characteristics of the opposite sex could be said at some point to be the initiation of the process because taking one pill once can’t count as a commitment to transitioning.  The upshot here is that for minors, i.e. those under 18, in Canada can’t be anywhere but at the starting gate of transitioning to trans.  Hence, a “trans” student can’t exist in Canada, legally anyway.  And the number of illegal cases there may be in Canada is insufficient to warrant dramatic government intervention to protect them as a class.