Leftist Schools Transitioning Children Without Parental Consent

After highlighting some examples of highly indoctrinated left-wing people being caught using their positions within the education system to push left-wing propaganda onto children, Simon goes on to discuss the case of Robert Hoogland of Vancouver, British Columbia, whose daughter was indoctrinated into gender dysmorphia and encouraged by the school unbeknownst to her parents to undergo a sex change.

Using local politicized therapists and physicians, the extreme left in Canada has been removing the rights of parents within the school system. For years the school system used a specialized “therapist,” whose job was transitioning children, to manipulate Hoogland’s daughter without her parents’ knowledge. This therapist had already set up hormonal treatment to transition her before her parents found out.

This medical experiment with no long-term studies means lifelong sterility for this child and many like her being indoctrinated by the extreme left. Hoogland was warned that he had already lost his daughter before he ever had a chance to fight what was happening, due to a system fighting against parents. The “therapist” used to transition Hoogland’s daughter has gone on record bragging about transitioning over 500 children, including two-year-olds. His name, Wallace Wong, is being hidden by the Canadian government to obscure the atrocities he has admitted to. It is known he has encouraged children and parents to help their children get government-paid transitions by pretending the child is suicidal.

Simon, in his video on the matter, highlights news articles implying transgender researchers are to be looked to in deciding if three years old is too young, rather than parents. These “transgender researchers” have the power to transition children not only without parental consent but also against their will. The consent form given to Hoogland’s daughter plainly stated they did not know the long-term effects, potential illnesses, or harm it could lead to. Simon points out this “informed consent” was coerced by everyone except her legal guardians.

How can a child who can’t choose their own bedtime sign off consent on a procedure that could change their life forever? Does she also choose what’s for dinner and pay rent? Does she have a job? A license? How is it that a child who can’t board a plane without parental consent can choose to alter their entire existence irreversibly? Where does one draw the line in the sands of morality?

The central program being used to indoctrinate children in the British Columbian school system is called Soji. This program pushes the idea that there are thousands of genders and children who don’t identify as male or female may need to alter their gender. Teachers are banned from even calling children boys or girls, and from using mom and dad to refer to parents, all under the guise of anti-bullying stemming from leftist ideologies that push weaponized social justice for radical reform.

As a result of an amendment to the BC Human Rights Act, this politicized curriculum was inserted by the government without any regard or approval from parents or taxpayers. There was no warning despite over one hundred “sex activists” showing up to the BC Legislature to watch the bill “rammed through into law,” in just one day. The public was not informed, nor was there any democratic process. No debate or discussion, no mainstream media coverage. Fundamental human rights laws changed at “absolutely record-breaking speeds.” This is how extremism operates; with rushed laws embroiled in radical ideologies which result in the opposite of democracy. Simon says it best, “the extreme left is now a physical, emotional, and spiritual danger to our children across multiple domains of society. We need to stand up for our children.”

The content in this curriculum is lacking in scientific basis and tact. It implies disturbing connotations and imparts politicized opinionated programming to children, which affects their sense of self and world views. In the “intersex” portion of the curriculum, teachers are provided various materials to show students. This includes a youtube video of a woman explaining how doctors assign sex to intersex babies “based on whether or not it looks like it could penetrate something,” a lewd description asserted with no corroborating data which Simon rightfully likened to pedophilic thinking. This undermines belief in binary biology simply by calling into question the practices used by doctors without any sources for their claims.

In truth, when infants are born with irregular genitalia, gender assignments are considered preliminary and are decided upon after many tests have been done (hormonal, genetic, and radiological,) and parents have been consulted. Children can always decide later in life to switch assignments, though parental consent seems to have been removed as they age, despite their involvement being obliged by doctors as infants. Compared to the general population, these children have a much higher rate of gender transition, both with and without treatment. This treatment is irreversible and is being given without parental consent, at an age when children are too young to even fully see their true selves through the pressure placed on them by the radical left that has infiltrated our schools. Their brains before five are not even developed enough to fully understand gender identity and its permanence.

Simon shows a clip in his video being used as what is intended to be “activism” for intersex children where they point out that “doctors often perform ‘normalizing’ surgery on intersex people without medical reasons.” They are saying it’s wrong to do so since we are lacking medical knowledge, but then encourage secretly transitioning through the school system while suggesting children lie about being suicidal to get the treatment through government funding. This blatantly teaches children hypocrisy and manipulation, while compartmentalizing those arguments within the brain.

Gender Dysmorphia cases have gone up since children have been given a curriculum that is telling them there is no real gender, that it is a changing spectrum, while then being allowed to permanently alter their bodies without parental consent, despite 90% of children growing out of it. Whatever happened to being a “tomboy?” These “activists” who advocate it is wrong to force medical procedures on intersex babies who cannot consent, but whose parents can, are also pushing permanent medical procedures onto children who consent under duress, without parental consent. If this happens to you in Canada there are no legal powers given to parents. In Hoogland’s case, the left-wing extremism was not only in the schools counseling program which was telling this girl she was a boy for two years, but it was also in the school’s program that set Hoogland’s daughter up with a physician to permanently sterilize her, and in the courts as well. It became clear these extreme left-wing politics which had permanently altered his daughter was in the courts once Hoogland was arrested and imprisoned numerous times trying to defend his rights as a parent.

Hoogland’s case was brought before a BC Supreme Court Justice who has a history of serving as counsel for the radical feminist pro-transgender group, West Coast Leaf. This is anything but impartial justice. On top of this, Hoogland’s daughter was given one of the most radical LGBTQ layers in BC as her representation, who brushed the law aside which stated Hoogland’s daughter was not of age to consent to legal representation as the law states parental consent is required for representation to be given to the child. Not surprising since we’ve seen they don’t care for parental consent.

While the doctor, Wallace Wong, was encouraging students to suggest they were suicidal, Hoogland’s daughter actually was. She had been “disciplined” by her school for “stalking” her gym teacher, who was a man, when she was 12 (now 15 at the time of this session.) The suicide attempt was not even about her gender, but in reality about a heterosexual attraction. Hoogland’s attorney, Carey Linde, stated the LGBT lawyers (of which there were over two dozen funded by the Canadian LGBT movement) were “purposefully dishonest about this in their arguments, and the Court refuses to correct it.” The Attorney General used it as a reason for needing gender treatments. Linde also stated that the courts are being “manipulated to hide these unethical doctors from public scrutiny,” an apt evaluation, despite those very doctors proudly advertising their skills and services on social media and in books they write about their work.

“The psychologist and endocrinologist are hiding behind court orders while they move an increasing number of emotionally wounded children to a lifetime addiction to expensive gender-altering hormones. These men are abusing the courts for their personal gain. The court cannot sanction this.”

He goes on to say Hoogland is just trying to warn parents how the government is allowing schools to discreetly convince children to transition while the state is “allowing pediatric endocrinologists to give gender-altering hormones to children without parents’ knowledge or consent.” He asked, “why has the Attorney General chosen to escalate this case against a father in such a draconian fashion? It is a punitive and intimidating effort to punish him for speaking his conscience.” He brutally goes on to ask, “Does the AG think that Rob’s conscience will shrivel up like the testosterone poisoned eggs in his now sterile 15-year-old child? Or more to the point: Why isn’t the AG leading the charge to protect young girls with rapid-onset gender dysphoria from the psychologists and doctors experimenting with the girls’ growing bodies and fragile minds without parental knowledge or consent?” It is clear this court truly does believe standing up for parental rights to be involved with their child’s decisions to begin gender treatment is more criminal than murder.

Could it be that the reason this would be “rapid-onset” gender dysphoria would be because these girls are subconsciously being manipulated into channeling those pre-pubescent feelings of pain into something they think will make them feel more accepted or connected to society? It’s rapid-onset because those ideas are being suddenly PLANTED in their heads. Not only by these particular “doctors,” but by society and the media at large. This is a leftist agenda, one that the media insists is an issue and pushes every chance it gets in the name of “social justice.” Whether in America, Canada, or abroad, the “woke” left (a term ironically misappropriated from the disclosure community,) is pushing gender ideology on children from birth when their fragile minds are not even developed enough to understand the concept. That is indoctrination based on pseudoscience with no proof behind it.

Counseling children who exhibit signs is one thing, but involving doctors who brag about transitioning children as young as two who, again, are not developed enough to even fully understand gender identity or its permanence, is a gross infraction upon the sanctity of the family unit as well as the innocence of every child affected. Hoogland himself said he was fighting the far left on his donation page and Justice Tammen was livid, “I’m the left? I’m the far left?!” Yes, Tammen, along with all the media and lobbyists pushing the LGBT agenda onto children. A “mature 15 year old” is still a 15-year-old, despite the court order that she is “mature enough to overrule her father’s wishes.” Was she mature enough to ask that he not go to prison? The purpose of having age limits for “adulthood” is to keep youth from being indoctrinated and manipulated in exactly this way, because their young minds have not fully grasped the world at large to be able to apply their understanding to these types of situations.

An author from city-journal noted-

“It used to be understood that gender dysphoria is vanishingly rare, typically afflicts boys, and almost always begins to manifest when a child is extremely young. In recent years, however, there’s been an epidemic in many Western countries of older girls who suddenly claim to be in the wrong body. This “rapid-onset gender dysphoria,” as Abigail Shrier argues in her important 2020 book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters (which I reviewed), is a fad rooted in a number of contemporary social factors. Many have expressed concern about this trend. Yet transgender activists, eager to increase their visibility and clout, have embraced these girls as real cases of gender dysphoria and have pushed for them to be “transitioned,” pronto.”

The transgender community is eager to grab onto these cases despite knowing that most children change their minds after puberty, and are pushing for irreversible procedures despite this, while doctors seem equally unconcerned with the fact that many children change their minds. Wong pronounced Hoogland’s daughter a “prime candidate for cross-sex hormones” which sounds an awful lot like a “prime subject for an experiment.” He promised they would “solve all her problems.” To justify his decision he cited a 1993 amendment to the B.C. Infants Act permits doctors to prescribe birth control for, and perform abortions on, young people whom those doctors judge to be “mature minors,” and to do so without parental knowledge and consent. This is now being used to treat children dubbed “mature minors” for gender dysphoria, while irreparably harming their bodies, without parental consent. They are implying taking birth control or getting an abortion at such a young age is the same as permanently sterilizing oneself at an age when societal pressure is more concerning than self-preservation.

Hoogland’s case became clearly political when his daughter asked that her father not be imprisoned, while her request went ignored. This was obviously a far-left extremist ideology that cared nothing for the child’s own opinion. This vindictive team of extremists even took away Hoogland’s funding from his online donations page to be sure he didn’t receive the financial support pouring in. Hoogland was actually arrested as a result of creating this page, which included banned details such as names of the “gender clinic” doctors who are experimenting on her. This “gag order” was put in place to “protect” Hoogland’s daughter, according to the government, despite everyone they know already knowing their identities. He had remarkable restrictions placed on him. He was forbidden from trying to pursue his daughter to stop treatment, from addressing her by her birth name, from referring to her as a girl in any conversation with anyone or to use female pronouns to describe her. It was ordered that if he were to do any of those things, it would be “considered to be family VIOLENCE” under the Family Law Act. Words are acts of violence, while objective acts of violence like using chemicals to permanently alter developing bodies and removing healthy organs are considered benign.

After this ruling Hoogland’s daughter began treatment, while Hoogland continued speaking in public and giving interviews in direct violation of the order. Judge Marzari tried to stop his public speaking, stating there was “substantial online commentary” that was allegedly causing death threats to the doctors involved. Hoogland was ordered to stop trying to talk his daughter out of treatment and to stop communicating with others (including the media and his daughter herself.)

Eventually, the court reversed the “family violence” ruling and ruled a minor can’t opt for testosterone treatment without a doctor making the final determination. Hoogland resigned to having lost the battle with his daughter but continued to speak out against the Canadian government and school system to help educate and empower other parents so they may avoid the same fate. Teaching others what these systems are capable of without the consent of parents is all he has left.

It was reported that the judge, Justice Michael Tammen, was “extremely hostile towards Hoogland and his lawyer” at Hoogland’s bail hearing. Tammen admitted on the record that he already considered Hoogland guilty and would probably give him a staunch prison sentence of up to five years. He “angrily ordered Hoogland to remain in jail without bail” until his April 13-16, 2021 trial (despite having previously released a convicted murderer pending review of his criminal murder conviction,) but Hoogland agreed to a plea deal entailing admitting to “willfully breaching certain orders of the Supreme Court” and accepting 18 months probation and one month for time spent in custody.

Justice Tammen went so far as to threaten a harsher sentence if Hoogland’s interview conducted with MassResistance was not removed from the web, despite it being in the USA, beyond their jurisdiction. They did not remove the material from their site. Instead, their message was heard around the world, from China to Russia. MassResistance also noted that it is unheard of for the B.C. Attorney General’s office to be prosecuting a conduct order. They compare it to the New York State Attorney General prosecuting a misdemeanor. They state the government clearly wanted to put full force on Hoogland to send a message to anyone else who might want to stand up against their transgender movement “entrapping so many children.” They described the proceeding as coldly businesslike, focusing on following laws, procedures, and orders, claiming this is for the child’s “well-being,” despite that child asking that her dad NOT be prosecuted. But this is for her own good, says the court.

Meanwhile, the defense is pulling on heartstrings that rightfully SHOULD be pulled on. They wanted to send a message to the world: your children now belong to the system and anyone who interferes is abusive and could land in prison. If they aren’t “treated” in school they are now provided free “treatments” in the military within the USA, while Canada provides hormone therapy and has provided 19 reassignment operations as of 2015. Is the goal to weaken the military using “social justice” and the radical left? Trump made a point about needing a military that is decisive, and while the transgender movement is understandable (however inflated due to media,) it comes with a host of mental and physical hurdles that could weaken our military if it became a majority thanks to manipulation from society, the media, and the school system.

The school system has clearly been weaponized to target the minds and bodies of our youth, along with the family unit which the left knows is what is needed to support and protect our children as the primary guiding mechanism. This indoctrination is not inclusive to Canada, it is happening in the USA and all over the world.

In Scotland we see the same thing, where the Scottish National Party is taking serious heat for pushing through reforms to the Gender Recognition Act, which allows children as young as 16, reduced from 18, to transition. Children are only required to live as the desired gender for as little as three months before diving in with the application process. Nowhere does it state the need for parental consent, only the consent of the Scottish Ministers.

The human rights and women’s group, “Women and Girls in Scotland (WGS,) accused the SNP of “unacceptable conduct and failures,” as well as being “deliberately misleading.” The evidence gathering for the Gender Recognition Reform Bill has been biased at best, intentionally discriminatory at worst. It was revealed that no “gender critical” women’s groups were consulted, igniting fears that the protection of sex-based rights, and therefore the safety of citizens, are being ignored. WGS provides evidence that these changes to the law conflict with women’s rights to single-sex spaces.

Much like in the case of the BC Human Rights Act, the SNP was accused of failing to properly publicize its plans in advance. More radical reforms are being pushed through without proper consideration or consent. The WGS stated: “We not only consider the govt’s response to us to have been deliberately misleading but its failure to honestly and fully answer our questions (we asked a number in this area) as well as its failure to proactively engage with women’s groups or with women’s concerns regarding detriment at all – particularly when the majority of women’s groups are against the govt’s proposals – has functioned to prevent access to the GRA reform process, and to prevent transparency, accountability, and inclusivity, as well as meaning PSED duties have not been met.”

While the Scottish Government says they have consulted groups “from across the spectrum of opinions” WGS says their 2019 Female Only Prevision report which “outlines key arguments in favor of protecting single-sex spaces was omitted.” This report includes women as well as trans-identified women and still 79.1% of those surveyed feel communal changing spaces, showers, sleeping accommodations in places like schools, pools, guys, and hostels should not be open to “trans-identified males.”

The Scottish Government also failed to publish the responses to their own consultation, which took place in Feb 2020, with over 14,500 responses having never seen the light of day. WGS stated, “any delay in publishing responses was self-imposed by the govt, and that based on the govt’s own figures these responses could be made public within weeks.” They have stated they have “completely lost faith in the government in regards to GRA reform, due to the government’s conduct,” along with some unanswered questions.

A recent example of this right here at home is the Parental Rights in Education Bill passed by DeSantis in Florida, which the left has dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, despite that having nothing to do with it. The name was made up to provoke assumptions by the “woke” left and foment dissent and division. DeSantis used the Genderbread Person as an example; a piece of the material distributed from the Planned Parenthood “curriculum.” The bill was signed to keep this material from being given below its suggested age- which is ten- in an attempt to preserve their innocence and keep them focused on things they should be learning about their personalities and environment.

DeSantis also introduced a mom who is suing the school district for talking to their child about her gender identity, without their consent. Sound familiar? The bill passed by DeSantis also allows parents to sue for damages and attorney fees if a complaint about a child’s education is not resolved by a school district. Planned Parenthood material is highly sexual and seems to be grooming children for future abortions by pressuring them into feeling ready for intercourse (which many children have reported,) as well as conditioning them to be accepting of permanently altering their bodies using the PP trans-identification curriculum. In a major conflict of interest, they also provide hormone therapy themselves and have built over 500 clinics offering this hormone “therapy” across the US, in seemingly every state. They can’t legally give hormone blockers to children under 16, but they do provide information on where children can go to receive this “therapy.”

In a previous article it was outlined how bills are being passed to push this Planned Parenthood curriculum meant for ten-year-olds on children as young as five, which is what DeSantis fought for; to keep it away from K-3rd grade, ages 5-8, while putting more power in the hands of parents by prohibiting schools from withholding information from parents. A video included in the article shows in 2019 Minnesota Representative Eric Lucero stood on the House floor and stated if the material was okay for children, he could repeat it there. He reviewed, in every gruesome detail, the materials in the curriculum, which include such topics as fisting, blood play, and the sentiment that porn is okay (photos attached at the end for reference,) despite countless studies showing its negative effects on the human brain, regardless of age. These are all topics no child needs to learn, not even ten-year-olds as far as this mother is concerned.

Even children at five do not always fully understand gender permanence. This was in protest of a bill for Minnesota, which passed. They are impressionable at this age, and teachers are already trained to see subtle nuances that suggest a child is struggling in their bodies emotionally, as well as how to question children without leading the conversation. It can be a discrete process only where there is a psychological concern, vs including the entire class and impregnating impressionable young minds with material that they should not be focusing on at such a young age. They should be connecting with their body and emotions, not disassociating from it. They should not be so focused on placing labels on themselves, which only bleeds into every aspect of their lives.

In 2014, the Co-founder of Tumblr, David Karp, joined the board of directors of Planned Parenthood. Considering all we know about “secret hashtags,” for which there are multiple documentaries outlining trafficking and child porn networks using certain hashtags on social media, and tricks used for TikTok (including but not limited to “private posting,” wherein children give adults the passwords to their account and post explicit material in private mode,) etc, this should be disconcerting for any parent. At this time in 2014 Tumblr was full of trans-related material. We all see the influence Big Tech has on the media and politics, and how it is being weaponized against our children. The very next year, Planned Parenthood added a page to their website for “gender identity.” By 2017, PP was rebranding themselves with LGBT services, which highlighting has brought a great deal of business their way and so became their marketing focus. Their site literally talks more about unconventional gender identities than they do about women, as proven by word counts. They are weaponizing medical identities, even through proxy organizations such as GLSEN and Gender Spectrum.

Let’s not forget Amnesty International went on a campaign to legalize and legitimize “sex work,” despite the countless groups of trafficking survivors who begged them to stop. Children are now taught that selling their bodies is an acceptable form of income, despite professionals in the human trafficking field pointing out that this only serves to legitimize pimps who already know how to hide illegal aspects of their operation. There is no reason to believe a pimp will follow all the rules. These people are still trafficking children behind the scenes, as many professionals in human trafficking have explained.