To the editor:
Parents across Canada are gravely concerned with the new law, Bill C-16.
We all recognize that those who seek to change their gender experience higher levels of personal difficulties and are in need of care.
To this end, we applaud anyone who offers assistance for those in need. However, we believe Bill C-16 will do the opposite.
Bill C-16 is so vague it is unenforceable. The fluid nature of gender identity is so nebulous that people can change their gender identity moment by moment.
In that the bill seeks to change the Criminal Code of Canada, people may be sent to prison for two years over something that is ill-defined, and indeterminable. One of the defenses included in Section 319 is if the communication is established to be true. This is impossible with fluid gender identity.
It is also reckless as the proposed law will establish universal protection for any man who wishes to access women's bathrooms or girls showers with momentary gender fluidity.
Every member of Parliament should examine their conscience over the potential of their vote exposing women and girls to male genitalia and even being sexually violated, not by a "transgender" person but by the sexual predator protected by Bill C-16.
If a father finds a man in the girls’ shower at the local pool with his little girl, he will obviously tell the man to get out. This could be considered a hate crime, discriminating against a "transgender" man, with the threat of two years in prison for the father.
319 (1) Everyone who, by communicating statements in any public place, incites hatred against any identifiable group (gender identity and gender expression) where such incitement is likely to lead to a breach of the peace is guilty of
• (a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years....
Is this the kind of bill Canada wants?
I urge parents to call MPs and ask them to vote against the bill.
Dr. Charles McVety, president
Institute for Canadian Values