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OPINION: Legitimate matters of public concern cannot be shut down due to murky fears of someone being ‘harmed’
According to a recent report, “significantly fewer people” in Canada today support “diverse gender expressions and transgender people” than eight years ago.
In The Conversation, a pair of Mount Royal University scholars zero in on two statements from the Statistics Canada survey: “People should be able to express their gender however they choose,” and “I would support a family member if they came out as transgender.”
Business & Communication Studies Professor Leah Hamilton (who studies “public attitudes toward immigrants and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities”) and Women’s and Gender Studies Professor Corinne Mason (“they/them” pronouns, researches “the institutionalization of feminist and queer logics in higher education”) note answers to the former saw an eight percent drop from 2018.
Despite the decrease, overall support remains quite high at roughly 74 percent.
Hamilton and Mason write that “public opinion about gender diversity reflects broader social norms and systems that can normalize discrimination and hate,” and then note several provinces have taken legislative measures against transgender and “gender-diverse” people such as “restrictions to gender-affirming healthcare for youth and participation in sport for trans women and girls” (emphasis added).
When lawmakers “weaponize trans-exclusionary framing” such as “presenting” the inclusion of biological males in girls’ and women’s sports as a “risk,” public support for trans individuals dips, the professors say.
The authors add that “decreased support for trans people and diverse gender expressions also corresponds with an increase in outright hostility, including hate crimes.”
So basically we’re at Don’t criticize the mutilation of minors if they feel like a different gender, or complain about the boy who beat all the female participants in track events at the last meet. Because they may lead to a hate crimes.
This preposterous attitude reached a pinnacle following the recent suicide of black Cambridge University Professor Jason Arday. Arday reportedly took his own life following scrutiny over his academic work, plagiarism, and other fabrications.
Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. is not coping well with the fall of Jason Arday. The facts are unbearable: Arday was a fraud; the DEI regime set him up for humiliation; and Glaude himself has been complicit in this system forever. pic.twitter.com/dQxpiiZKLw
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) August 18, 2026
Many among the Left blasted Arday’s critics, including the media which allegedly “piled on him.” It seems they weren’t supposed to ask tough questions out of fear he might have harmed himself.
Consider what Hamilton and Mason propose in their piece: Lawmakers should “start with meaningful consultation with 2SLGBTQIA+ organizations” when crafting legislation affecting trans and “gender-diverse” communities, “increase public education and prevention initiatives that promote acceptance” of those communities, and help combat “dis- and malinformation” and “transphobic narratives.”
If these “meaningful conversations” lead to demands that biological males be allowed to wander around girls’ locker rooms and compete on girls’ sports teams in the name of inclusion — and concern about hate crimes — this is a problem. Ditto regarding so-called “gender-affirming” care for minors.
honestly “you can’t report my crimes because i might kill myself” is a top tier scammer strategy https://t.co/X1XSFLJNnq
— Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma) August 19, 2026
Are we really at the point where if someone questions why a boy is permitted in a girl’s restroom, and the boy ends up harming himself over the ensuring discussion, the person who voiced the initial queries is to be held culpable for that harm? Are we?
Keep in mind, too, such a scenario only applies to an issue dear to the hearts of progressives. Folks like Professor Mike Adams aren’t of concern — because he dared to challenge leftist conventional wisdom.
Give me a break.
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