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It’s difficult to believe. In a country like Canada, where we talk so much about human rights, especially for “disadvantaged” groups, we openly permit and even promote the practice of child sex-change.

Children are undergoing surgeries whereby healthy body parts are being mutilated and amputated for no medically necessary reason. It’s a gruesome trend. Children are being drawn into the popular fervour spawned by the transgender movement, and the result is an exponential rise in child sex-change operations and cross-sex hormone therapies.

These horrific procedures, which include double mastectomies, hysterectomies, and castrations for children under the age of 18, are not just “tolerated”, but they are actively promoted by our progressive political leaders and their trans-activist allies in our public schools, public health departments, and social service agencies all across the country. These radical ideologues are pushing gender-confused and gender-questioning children to undergo dangerous and irreversible transgender surgeries and hormone therapies. These procedures will leave their child victims deformed, sterile, and susceptible to a multitude of diseases and medical conditions later in life. And all this is being paid for by you and me – through our tax dollars!

At the same time, wholesome reparative therapies, which aim to help children accept their God-given biological sex, are being criminalized under “anti-conversion therapy” legislation (such as Bill C-8 and Bill S-202). These bills even threaten to censor Church teaching on human sexuality and gender. The government is quickly constructing a one-way street to mass child abuse.

I wonder if we have learned any lessons from our country’s history. Do we not remember the Residential Schools controversy, whereby the federal government was implicated in the abuse of thousands of native children? Do we not remember the Alberta Sterilization Act, whereby that province was complicit in forcibly sterilizing disabled young people? Child sex-change is a hideous variation on the same theme – a new way to perpetrate abuse on those who are most vulnerable.

Unfortunately, there is also another similar form of child abuse spreading across the globe. In certain traditional Muslim communities in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, young girls are being mutilated through FGM (female genital mutilation). More than 200 million girls alive today have been maimed and put at risk of disease and even death for the sake of various Islamic or traditional cultural practices that promote FGM. According to the World Health Organization, “FGM is recognized internationally as a violation of the human rights of girls and women... FGM has no health benefits, and it harms girls and women in many ways.”

As Islam spreads across the world, there is a growing global concern over female genital mutilation. Countries such as the UK, the US, and Sweden have banned it outright. When I visited the United Nations in New York at their 2019 Commission on the Status of Women, the main concourse was full of displays denouncing the practice. (For more details, click here: https://www.unfpa.org/female-genital-mutilation).

It seems so strange. While the world is outlawing female genital mutilation in the name of human rights, why would Canada continue to support a similar practice – child sex-change mutilation? In fact, child sex-change causes much greater harm, and it impacts not only girls, but boys too. Why would the Trudeau government refuse to protect our nation’s children from this butchery?

The United Kingdom has promised to ban child sex-change. So have several US states. But not Canada. Not yet.

Gender-questioning children in Canada are being urged to choose irreversible sex-change surgeries. They are being lied to about what these procedures do, and about what risk these procedures pose. These “therapies” do not cure gender dysphoria, anxiety, or depression. They do nothing to change one’s biological sex. They do nothing to change one’s genetic code. And, unfortunately, most children are too immature to understand all this – let alone the long-term physical, mental, and spiritual harms.

It is urgent that our Canadian government – both federally and provincially – stand up and protect our nation’s children by immediately enacting a total ban on sex-change surgeries and cross-sex hormone therapies for those under the age of 18.

We recently launched a petition to our federal and provincial leaders calling for a ban on child sex-change. Over 4,200 people have signed so far, and the number of signatures is growing everyday! But we want to do even more to stand up for our country’s kids.

In addition to our petition, we are launching an Action Alert Email campaign to flood our federal and provincial leaders’ in-boxes with letters from constituents on this important issue. To that end, I would ask you to take a moment to send an Action Alert Email to your elected officials and demand that they protect children from sex-change mutilation.

To send your Action Alert Email, simply click on the link below, fill out your name and address, choose the pre-scripted message you wish to send (or write your own message), and then click send. It will only take a few minutes of your time, but it will make a big impact.

SEND YOUR ACTION ALERT EMAIL TODAY!

Thank you for joining us as we speak up for Canada’s children.

As Jesus reminds us, “Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven.” - Matt. 18:10.

Yours for Life, Family, and Faith,

David Cooke
National Campaign Manager
Campaign Life Coalition

P.S. Take a moment to send an Action Alert Email right now: https://www.votervoice.net/CALIFE/campaigns/74188/respond

P.P.S. If you have not yet signed our petition, please do so here: https://www.campaignlifecoalition.com/petition/id/38