In 2016, Canada solidified self-identification of “gender” into law with the passing of Bill C-16. Subsequently the Canadian Human Rights Act was altered to include “gender identity or expression”, making it legal for individuals to simply state their “gender” at any time and illegal for Canadians to “misgender” anyone over the age of 18 months!
In 2022, Bill C-4 banned “Conversion Therapy” in Canada. Included in this ban are talk and exploratory therapies for children & adolescents with Gender Ideation. The bill was passed with Royal Ascent, supported in large part by “trans/queer” lobby groups and individuals. A petition created by TQ lobbyists, using the tragic suicide of a gay teenager to generate sympathy, further bolstered the supposed need for the bill. It highlighted the actual Conversion Therapy that was no longer being practiced in Canada, save for possible fringe cases, but helped to make actual therapy illegal for “gender” questioning individuals.
Conversion therapy was no longer being practiced in Canada, except potentially by rare, fringe individuals or groups when Bill C-4 was passed into law.
Our laws & Human Rights Act use language like “cisgender” (a term coined in 2004 by German sexologist Volkmar Sigusch who believes that pedophilia is a legitimate sexuality). “Cis-normative ideas”, “sex assigned at birth” and “how an individual feels about or perceives their sense of gender” are used to inflate TQ rights, nullifying many of our sex-based rights and freedoms.
This “Conversion Therapy” ban was intended to bolster the “Affirming Care” model for individuals with Transgender Ideation by removing proper therapy from the safeguarding protocols of “transgender” healthcare.