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When the Ontario Legislature was dissolved for the summer election, we were relieved that Bill 17 was stopped dead in its tracks. That abominable proposal, brought forward by Ms. Suze Morrison, a bisexual NDP MPP, would have created a biased, pro-LGBT committee to steer healthcare policies in the province along partisan political lines. However, Bill 17 has now been revived in the form of Bill 42, thanks to four NDP MPPs.

I know many of you already reached out to your MPPs to oppose Bill 17 – and we greatly appreciate those efforts. However, we now need to set our sights on defeating Bill 42.

Nothing has changed in this new Bill. It has the exact same wording, and it is directed to the same insidious purpose: Bill 42 will speed more gender-confused youth and adults into irreversible, mutilating sex-change treatments, paid for with more of our tax dollars. It will radically sexualize our Ontario healthcare system, prioritizing elective transgender procedures while hospital wait times skyrocket and essential surgeries continue to be delayed.

Unfortunately, Premier Doug Ford and his pseudo-conservative government seem to be fully on-board with this proposal. At least, that is how it came across when the old Bill 17 was introduced last year. The Minister of Health’s Parliamentary Assistant, Ms. Robin Martin, spoke positively of that Bill and gushed, “This government and all of Ontario stands with transgender, two-spirit, non-binary, intersex, gender-diverse folks and the entire LGBTQ2S community, and we always will.”

Let’s be absolutely clear. Bill 42 has nothing to do with real healthcare, and it will do nothing to actually help people who identify as LGBT.

Bill 42 will further enshrine the delusion of gender theory (i.e. “choose-your-own-gender”) into our laws and institutions and dismiss those who uphold God’s design for healthy human sexuality and gender.

Bill 42 will ensure the social contagion of “rapid-onset gender dysphoria”, which is a particular threat to young girls, will have free-course to spread like a cancer in Ontario. It will ensure more unnecessary mutilating surgeries are performed – such as double mastectomies on healthy women and girls, and penectomies on healthy men and boys. It will provide more sterilizing puberty-blocking drugs to more youth. It will reject the “wait-and-see” approach and push doctors into referring gender-confused patients to pro-LGBT practitioners for immediate “treatment”.

This bill is immensely harmful.

And for those who claim that transgender treatments and surgeries are somehow “life-saving” – that gender dysphoric people will commit suicide if they do not “transition” – the science says just the opposite.

Research shows that over 84% of gender dysphoric youth come to accept their biological sex upon entering adolescence or adulthood. This “transgender desistence” is a normal, expected, and desired outcome, avoiding all the harms associated with sex-change surgeries and artificial hormone therapies. But if these 84% are pushed into unneeded and irreversible transgender treatments, they will be stuck with a lifetime of regret, sorrow, and pain.

In fact, research also shows there is a significantly higher rate of suicide and suicidal ideation for those who have gone through with sex-change treatments and surgeries. According to the most thorough follow-up study of sex-reassigned people, conducted in Sweden over a 30-year period: “The overall mortality for sex-reassigned persons was higher during follow-up than for controls of the same birth sex, particularly death from suicide. Sex-reassigned persons also had an increased risk for suicide attempts and psychiatric inpatient care.” In fact, the suicide rate for those who had undergone sex-reassignment surgery rose to 20 times that of the norm within 10 to 15 years after surgery.

Bill 42 totally ignores the science and turns a blind eye to the long-term effects of transgender healthcare. It rejects traditional counselling, pastoral care, and body-affirming psychotherapy. It is all about pandering to a loud and belligerent pro-LGBT political lobby that is trying to prop up its delusional ideology.

We need to reach out to MPPs once again to urge them to say NO to Bill 42. We must not allow the LGBT lobby to gain a bigger foothold in our public healthcare system. It is vital that we work to protect vulnerable youth – especially young girls – who are prone to transgender influences through social media and peer pressure.

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