We offer Support and Resources to Canadian parents of children of any age experiencing “transgender” ideation.
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Welcome to Our Duty Canada, a support network for parents of children of any age experiencing transgender ideation.
We are a group of concerned parents, most of whom have children struggling with distress around their sex and grappling with the largely unrestricted social and medical options being presented to them in Canada in response to this distress. We believe that no child has the necessary cognitive and psychosocial maturity to provide informed consent to the use of synthetic cross-sex hormones and surgical procedures (referred to as “gender affirming care”) that may permanently damage their health, sexual function and fertility.
As a group, we share a very unique perspective based on 2 strengths: (1) We have a wealth of first-hand experience with children experiencing gender distress, because we parent them, as well as with the medical and mental health practitioners who have recommended gender-affirming care for these children, and (2) As dedicated parents, some of whom are also researchers, academics and mental health professionals, we also carefully follow the results of peer-reviewed research in this area, which, to date, has NOT yielded strong evidence of the safety or effectiveness of these gender affirming medical treatments. Therefore, we work to increase public awareness and pressure our social, medical and political organizations to conduct themselves from an evidence-based perspective. We know that children with other mental health issues and who are likely to grow up to be gay are being harmed by so-called “gender affirming care” every day in Canada. We will do our part to help end this.
We are proud to represent Our Duty as we continue to build this Canadian Chapter.
What’s in the books available to little kids at schools, in libraries and at daycare? Would you believe many of these books are actively indoctrinating children into taking on a gender identity, becoming an ally or even participating in “TQ” (trans/queer)activism? We took a look in the books.
Access the book list HERE.
We have sent our open letter to over 750 medical, mental health, education and political bodies across Canada (phase 2). We encourage you to send the letter, with over 250 signatures, to anyone you know needs the evidence of the lack of safety and efficacy of “gender affirming care”. Read and share here: Open Letter Urging Immediate Disengagement from WPATH or Lettre ouverte appelant de toute urgence à une rupture immédiate avec la WPATH largement discréditée
The WPATH Files- Pseudoscientific Surgical and Hormonal Experiments on Children, Adolescents and Vulnerable Adults
We encourage parents and concerned citizens to attach the WPATH Files to any letter, complaint or request that you write! The files contain evidence that the authority on “gender affirming care” (WPATH) followed by Canadian medical and mental health bodies is non-evidence based and experimental. Prominent WPATH members give written and video recorded evidence that they are aware that children and adolescents CANNOT give their informed consent for the treatments they recommend, that they are unsure of the long term outcomes of these treatments, and that the treatments themselves are largely experimental.
“LEAKED FILES FROM WPATH REVEAL WIDESPREAD MEDICAL MALPRACTICE ON CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE ADULTS AT GLOBAL TRANSGENDER HEALTHCARE AUTHORITY“
“World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) members demonstrate a lack of consideration for long-term patient outcomes despite being aware of the debilitating and potentially fatal side effects of cross-sex hormones and other treatments“
About Our Duty Canada
Our Duty is an international support network for parents who wish to protect their children from gender ideology.
Gender ideology is a set of ideas that is leading to many children to think that they are transgender. Adolescents in particular are prone to seeking refuge in a gender identity that is at odds with the reality of their sex. We are an evidence-based organization.
Primarily, we facilitate peer support for parents of children with what has been called ROGD and we call transgender ideation.
We put you in touch with other parents who want to protect their children from harm.
In addition to helping parents connect:
- We work to find and share information.
- We help parents find the best professional help, for the child and for the family.
- We are finding the best ways to parent our beloved kids.
And most of all, we know that we are not alone, and that we have friends who understand.
If you are a parent of a child who thinks they are transgender, please register.
Our Duty Canada can be contacted via canada@ourduty.group
Template Letters for Schools:
Notice of Absence to Present to Schools
Letter to Send to Your School Board
Survey for Canadian Parents
Take our survey here if your child has been socially transitioned in his or her Canadian K-12 school.
Parenting Resources:
Parenting Through Gender Ideation in Canada
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EN FRANCAIS:
Gender Ideology in Canadian Schools Brochure
Canadian Gender Report, with some assistance from Our Duty Canada. has created an informative brochure on the presence of Gender Ideology in Canadian K-12 schools and the harm that this ideological approach is causing to children. Please read, download, print and share the pamphlet widely.
You can download the pamphlet below on Canadian Gender Report’s website and be sure to check out their other well-informed content.
Universal Periodic Review Submission
Our Duty Canada’s Submission to the UPR 2023
Our Duty Canada (ODC) recently submitted a Stakeholders report to the 2023 United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The UPR occurs every 4.5 years and provides a check-in to see how Canada is measuring up to its commitments pursuant to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. ODC feels strongly that immediate and lasting change is needed here in Canada in regard to “gender affirming care”.
The focus of the report is the UN rights of the child that we know are being violated through the physically and psychologically damaging practice of gender affirming care on Canadian children (age 18 and under as per the UNCRC). We submit that elective, hastily prescribed hormone drugs and amputating surgeries violate children’s right to protection “from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse” and “the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health.”
In our thorough report, we take an evidence-based approach in explaining how known and unknown long-term effects of Puberty Blockers, synthetic sex hormones and invasive surgeries in children outweigh their socially and politically endorsed, but largely unsubstantiated, benefits.
Key to the report is the lack of evidence for the safety and efficacy of the medicalization of Canadian children who experience gender ideation or incongruence with their sex. We dive into the risks from off-label drugs and invasive surgeries; comorbidities and suicide risk; lack of evidence for informed consent and exclusion of parents from decision-making. We support our deep concerns with several peer reviewed studies and preeminent academic articles.
Our report, which you can read here, will be included in the UPR’s Session 44 in Geneva in November 2023. We will be watching and we hope that other States in the UN recognize the rogue approach Canada is taking to “treat” children who adopt trending “gender identities”, hear our recommendations for much needed repair to the current protocol, and respond accordingly.
Press Release for UPR Submission
For further reading please see the Press Release for our UPR Submission.