Juno News - DEBUNKING the CBC’s radical trans nonsense

00:00:00.000 Supposed journalists at the CBC are nothing more than radical trans activists. And on today's show,

00:00:05.680 I'm going to walk you through the latest evidence. It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candace

00:00:08.940 Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:24.700 Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for tuning into the podcast. It's our favorite show here at The

00:00:29.060 Candace Malcolm Show, the Fake News Friday segment. We are bringing it back. I saw this article from

00:00:34.800 the CBC. It is peak CBC. Every single element of this story is just so over the top, so agenda

00:00:41.340 driven, so ideological, so far from doing a service to Canadians by providing them with news. So I

00:00:48.320 figured I would walk you through it in full just to show you what a farce CBC has become. So look,

00:00:54.960 we've been covering this issue a lot on The Candace Malcolm Show and True North overall. I think it's

00:01:01.140 an incredibly important story and revelation in Canadian media, in Canadian public policy,

00:01:07.780 in Canadian life. The fact that a politician, Danielle Smith, has come out with a bold,

00:01:12.820 brave policy to ban surgeries on gender dysphoric children, to ban life-altering sex change operations,

00:01:20.960 and then seeing how other politicians across the country, namely Pierre Polyev, have followed suit

00:01:26.200 and come along and defended this policy and now doubled down on that defense is something that

00:01:31.340 would not have happened even a year ago in this country. I think it's a tremendous revelation,

00:01:36.240 something worth covering in deep. So I'll take you back to that day that Danielle Smith announced

00:01:40.580 the policy, which was February 3rd. And our friend Jonathan Kaye pointed this out on Twitter,

00:01:46.860 that this is what the CBC national news page looks like right now. So John Kaye tweets,

00:01:51.700 CBC news editors having the expected meltdown. This is what the national CBC news page looks like

00:01:57.560 right now. And if we can just zoom in a little closer on what that page actually looks like,

00:02:02.960 you can see the stories that they're covering. So the main story on the site

00:02:06.200 is transgender allies in Calgary and Edmonton protest against Alberta's proposed new policies.

00:02:11.100 Danielle Smith says legislation coming this fall. And then all of the other stories on the website.

00:02:15.340 So there's one, two, three, four, five, six of their stories. They're all reactions to Danielle

00:02:20.000 Smith. And they're all from the exact same side, which is people who are outraged, people who find

00:02:25.480 this absolutely unacceptable, people who are having a negative reaction. You know, in journalism school,

00:02:31.540 we're taught like tell both sides of the story. I think to the CBC telling both sides of the story

00:02:36.860 means, you know, tell the side of athletes opposing this policy, tell the side of doctors opposing this

00:02:42.720 policy, tell the side of teachers opposing this policy, tell the side of activists opposing the

00:02:47.860 policy. It was literally just all the different sides that oppose the policy. Even though we know

00:02:53.280 that the statistics have come out, they polled Canadians. We know that somewhere between 50 and

00:02:58.520 75% of Canadians support Danielle Smith and what she's doing. But from the CBC's perspective,

00:03:04.180 everything about this was a travesty. Every single news story had to focus on how wrong it was that she

00:03:10.640 was doing this. And so this is coming from sort of the same mentality. I stumbled upon the story

00:03:15.880 and I'm going to read it to you pretty much in its entirety. This is what the article looks like.

00:03:21.980 It says, this clinic for gender affirming healthcare went private. The founder wishes it didn't.

00:03:28.920 Foria offers virtual healthcare for trans and non-binary patients in Ontario and Alberta. And then

00:03:34.720 it shows an image here of Dr. Kate Greenaway, who is the medical director at Foria, a virtual only

00:03:40.400 clinic for gender affirming care. She launches privately run service after her former clinic

00:03:44.900 closed due to funding changes by the Ontario government. So it's sort of the CBC is like two

00:03:50.560 favorite things to rail against, which is anyone who is opposed to their trans ideology and also

00:03:57.420 anybody who supports private care. And we get it all in this glorious news story. So let me just

00:04:05.100 read through you. It's like, again, peak CBC, if they can, if they can rail against someone and,

00:04:11.160 and promote trans ideology, and then at the same time rail against anyone for suggesting that there

00:04:15.860 should be private healthcare in Canada, they will do it. And that's what this article does here. So

00:04:19.760 let me just read through the story. It says, Kit Sparrow was faced with two options when he sought out

00:04:25.160 gender affirming care, wait months for a specialist appointment or pay out of pocket for a privately run

00:04:30.760 virtual service. The Ontario-based accessibility technology engineer had spent years trying to

00:04:35.740 understand his gender identity. Last March, he decided to visit his family doctor and begin

00:04:40.860 transitioning. While his physician responded positively, they didn't have the training or

00:04:46.100 experience to prescribe hormone treatment and instead referred him to an endocrinologist.

00:04:51.600 This referral, Sparrow says, came with a seven month wait list. Hearing that I had to wait

00:04:56.260 even longer was a punch in the gut, he told the host of this podcast. So let me just stop here

00:05:02.200 because like, we're supposed to read this story with empathy for this young woman who suddenly

00:05:07.960 believes that she's a man and she was pleased that her doctor went along with it. And then we're

00:05:13.540 supposed to feel a great deal of sympathy that she had to wait seven months. Well, perhaps it's just a

00:05:19.960 reminder, like to anyone who lives in Canada and has any experience with the Canadian healthcare

00:05:25.020 service, like everybody waits. Everybody waits for everything. Like when I was pregnant in Toronto and

00:05:31.340 I needed to find an OB, I had to go to a family doctor and they get referred and then wait. And I

00:05:36.400 was pregnant. I literally had to go see a doctor to have my six week visit and my eight week visit.

00:05:40.960 And I had to wait. That's just the normal experience of people in Canada. There are currently 3.4

00:05:48.260 million people in Canada on some kind of a wait list waiting for some kind of a surgery. This is

00:05:54.760 according to Second Street. So the idea that it's like, so unusual or unfair that this individual

00:06:01.980 had to wait seven months just doesn't really ring true for anyone who lives in Canada and has had the

00:06:06.740 experience of having to see a doctor or wait to see any kind of specialist. That's just how the system

00:06:11.660 works in our country, unfortunately. Okay. So going back to the story, it says, depending on where a

00:06:17.780 patient is located in Canada, wait times for gender affirming care can be months. Here is a precarious

00:06:23.420 position for people who are already struggling with their mental illness. So just another note

00:06:28.080 here, when they say gender affirming care, that is a euphemism. It doesn't really exactly describe

00:06:34.060 what is happening here. Okay. So the idea is that when it comes to gender for these people,

00:06:39.760 they're saying that it is different than their biological sex. So the biological sex is a woman,

00:06:43.880 but their gender that they see themselves as is a male. And so they want affirming care. So they

00:06:51.880 want healthcare to make them a man, they want a sex change operation, which, you know, as everybody 0.96

00:06:57.540 knows, you can't change your biology, you can't change your sex. So they say that you can change

00:07:01.440 your gender, and they want gender affirming care. So taking you to the other gender, that's what 0.98

00:07:07.620 they're referring to with this sort of soft, nice sounding gender affirming care, we're talking

00:07:11.640 about sex change operations typically. And interesting note as well is that the article says right out

00:07:18.840 that it's a precarious position for people already struggling with their mental health.

00:07:24.220 So the article kind of lets the cat out of the bag, and saying that the people who are going

00:07:28.240 through this procedure are mentally unwell, that this is a form of gender dysphoria, these people 0.98

00:07:33.380 are mentally unwell. And they're saying that because they're mentally unwell, we have to give them

00:07:38.680 life altering, sex altering medications, medical interventions to somehow help save their mental 0.91

00:07:45.980 illness. I mean, my initial instinct when I read that is, these people are mentally ill, let's treat 0.96

00:07:50.920 the mental illness rather than mutilating their bodies, because they believe that they are the 0.99

00:07:57.400 opposite sex. I mean, it seems to me pretty clear in the subtext of this article that that that is a

00:08:03.260 proper response. However, that's the exact opposite of what the CBC is advocating here. Okay, I'll

00:08:08.820 continue to read it says, transgender health researcher Avery Ahart says the trans and non-binary

00:08:13.860 community is facing a crisis of access to gender affirming care. And there may be value in trying 1.00

00:08:19.340 to throw every possible solution at it. So interestingly, there's always a crisis when it comes to this

00:08:24.580 stuff. It's always an emergency crisis of care, we should throw every dollar possible at this

00:08:30.400 issue. I mean, take a step back, like, what are we throwing? What do you want to throw every

00:08:34.140 dollar of care at it? Giving drugs and hormones to very confused young people, offering really risky

00:08:41.400 surgeries to people who might come to regret this decision, people who are already suffering from

00:08:46.520 mental illness. It's like, it's like, not only are they so dead set on pushing their radical solutions

00:08:53.300 to these social problems, but they want to treat it like every, like, we have to devote every dollar

00:08:59.800 of taxpayer money possible to fulfilling their, you know, ideological wishes. So here she says,

00:09:07.900 but she warns that further privatization of the healthcare risks creating an inequitable two-tier

00:09:13.520 system, where those with funds can get care quickly, and those without it have to wait,

00:09:18.860 while investors profit off of a marginalized community. That might be one of my favorite 0.99

00:09:22.960 sentences ever in a CBC story. This is sort of the argument that we've been hearing for like decades

00:09:28.380 in Canada, that no, no, no, we can't, we can't have privatized care, because it will just mean that rich

00:09:33.580 people will get to pay, and everybody else has to wait. Except for the current system that we have

00:09:38.740 now, where just everybody waits. 3.4 million Canadians waits. So at least in like this imagined,

00:09:43.980 like, they create this boogeyman saying like, in this terrible two-tiered system, rich people will

00:09:48.600 get they want everyone else to wait. Well, at least in that system, some people get the care that they

00:09:52.960 need, as opposed to now, where like, nobody gets the care they need. Everybody waits. Everybody's

00:09:58.460 suffering from a system. And then they throw in for good measure here, while investors profit off a

00:10:05.540 marginalized community, like if we had a private system, investors would profit. What investors

00:10:09.640 exactly is the CBC referring to here? What investors, honestly, we're talking about like pensions,

00:10:15.740 government pensions, and teachers pensions, that are typically the ones that invest in like large

00:10:20.240 private held companies in Canada. So it's just so bizarre, this, you know, this is a news article,

00:10:27.760 this is written by a straight news reporter, not an, you know, someone doing commentary, not a

00:10:34.120 opinion piece, not an analysis. But they just write, write that in, like, everybody knows everybody

00:10:40.700 at the CBC is like common wisdom at the CBC that you cannot private healthcare, because some people

00:10:45.540 will get what they want, others will have to wait, and investors will profit. It's like just such a

00:10:50.540 communist mentality. Okay, this article is almost done. Just finish it up here. It says,

00:10:55.560 this is something that disincentivizes us from fixing what's wrong with our existing

00:10:59.880 publicly funded healthcare system, says Everhart, the assistant professor of geography at the

00:11:05.020 University of British Columbia, facing a seven month wait to begin hormone treatment with worsening

00:11:10.560 mental healthcare. Sparrow decided to go to Foreo. Within a few weeks, he had a prescription for

00:11:15.320 testosterone. I'm lucky enough to have been able to afford it. But I'm very disappointed that it's not

00:11:20.400 already covered. This is life saving care. And I will be honest that I don't think I would be here

00:11:26.840 today without it. So there you have it. The tried and true, the favorite tactic of the political left,

00:11:35.640 if you don't give me what I want, I will kill myself or these people will kill ourselves. We hear this 0.99

00:11:40.400 argument over and over and over again. So I wanted to sort of take a step back and just sort of,

00:11:48.960 you know, go through some of these arguments that we see first. Within this CBC article,

00:11:54.720 there were a couple of clips embedded. So I do want to show you them just because it shows you

00:11:58.780 they, you know, they wrote this article and then they simultaneously also did a video segment where

00:12:04.700 they interviewed a teen from Alberta to talk about the troubles that that teen had in basically getting

00:12:11.420 access to the care that they wanted, getting access to the sex change operation that this teen was 1.00

00:12:16.780 after. So first I'll play the clip. This is the teen complaining about the onerousness of having to

00:12:22.460 speak to a doctor before getting the drugs that he was after, she was after. Play that clip. 0.90

00:12:28.680 It was like, um, asking me really weird questions. Like what if I wanted to get pregnant someday?

00:12:33.340 What if I had a husband someday? I think he asked me like, what if you want to keep your boobs? Like, 0.98

00:12:40.300 it was so weird and invasive. We just wanted a referral to a gender clinic. Just a referral was 0.99

00:12:45.500 all that we wanted. And then it would be out of his hands. He refused to do that for us.

00:12:49.720 Well, good. He, I'm glad he refused to do that. It sounds like a common sense doctor there talking

00:12:54.400 to a confused young teenager, uh, walking through the future risks because we know that so many of

00:13:00.880 these children who undertake these life changing surgeries and procedures live to regret it. And when

00:13:06.080 they're 20, 25, 30 years old, and they do, it turns out, it turns out that they weren't, they don't want

00:13:11.980 to be a man anymore. They want to be a woman. They want to have children. They want to be able to

00:13:16.820 fulfill their duties as a, as a human being and procreate. And they realize they can't because

00:13:22.940 they've had their uterus removed or they've been sterilized. So a doctor asking a child, just very 0.76

00:13:27.820 common sense questions like, think about your future. Do you really want to carve up your body? Do you

00:13:32.180 really want to lose your breasts? What if you want to have children in the future? I mean, 0.82

00:13:35.160 those sound like really very decent and important questions to ask this child. And you can tell that

00:13:41.720 the child there is saying like, how dare he asked me that question? Like I saw this trend on TikTok

00:13:47.420 and I want to do it. And I'm here to get my referral, give me my drugs. Don't ask me questions, shut up and

00:13:52.900 just do what I want. And it's actually kind of surprising that the CBC did that interview, conducted it 0.96

00:13:58.620 and then aired it. Because when you, when, when I watch that clip, I see a petulant child who is very

00:14:04.900 confused, not someone who I think it's like absolutely like life threatening that we indulge

00:14:12.000 this child and change and give, give this child the sex change operation. I mean, it's pretty wild.

00:14:17.620 Okay. I'll play one more clip. This is of the CBC's journalists. This person is a journalist

00:14:22.240 talking about how important these sex change operations are and how they can be life saving.

00:14:29.300 Let's play that clip. Trans youth say gender affirming healthcare can be life saving. But 0.98

00:14:34.240 depending on where you live in Canada, it's hard to get. And the wait can be years long. But there

00:14:38.640 are healthcare providers across the country providing this kind of care. They want to make it easier for

00:14:43.420 kids and teens to get it. So that is a journalist. She comes across as an activist. She comes across as 0.88

00:14:49.780 someone who is in a commercial trying to promote this butchery, but she's actually a journalist.

00:14:55.460 And that was her online news segment that she did. So that's, that's what we're dealing with here,

00:15:00.560 folks. That's, that's the state of journalism in Canada. And one final clip. This is a doctor that

00:15:06.420 was interviewed, giving the claim again, that these kids will kill themselves if you don't give them

00:15:12.620 what they want. So let's play that clip. Affirming care is sort of a bigger term, but it really

00:15:16.640 means, you know, meeting the kid where they are. That's what endocrinologist Dr. Daniel Metzger wants

00:15:22.080 to do. Metzger co-authored a new position statement by the Canadian Pediatric Society, endorsing affirming

00:15:28.920 care for transgender and gender diverse kids and teens. They have no legal support, but they also have

00:15:33.900 no medical support in some places. Or if they had medical support, it's been taken away.

00:15:37.080 So, you know, the unfortunate fact is that the suicide rate amongst trans youth is the highest

00:15:45.020 of all. That goes down very rapidly once a child is just talks to one grownup in charge and says,

00:15:52.520 yeah, we believe you. Let's help you out. Metzger says many kids and teens are only interested in

00:15:57.920 social transition, changing their appearance or their name. So that's not true. That last line about

00:16:04.340 how most of these kids are not interested in any kind of medical intervention. All they want is

00:16:09.180 just to talk to an adult who will understand and they just want to like change their appearance and

00:16:14.120 go by a different name. That's obviously not the case because if that was the case, then we wouldn't

00:16:18.800 be having this discussion. Then Daniel Smith's policies about banning surgeries and hormone treatments,

00:16:24.000 they wouldn't have cared. If the biggest issue, most of these kids just simply wanted to go by a

00:16:28.920 different name at school, that's one thing. That's one thing. But what we're talking about

00:16:32.780 is these interventions, is the surgeries and the hormones, and that's why they're up in arms.

00:16:37.220 So they can't simultaneously say like, most kids don't even want the drugs. They don't even want

00:16:41.500 the surgeries. And then when a politician says, okay, fine, we're not going to allow really good,

00:16:46.340 good that they don't want them because we're not going to allow them. And then they all like scream

00:16:49.620 and pull their hair out and say that it's, you know, a dictatorship. It's like, because the first

00:16:54.040 statement isn't true. So I just want to quickly go through this claim, this idea that if you ban

00:17:02.300 kids from getting these surgeries and taking these hormone drugs, it puts their lives at risk because

00:17:07.800 you do a little digging and you find, you know, Dr. Jordan Peterson, I shared this in my show earlier

00:17:12.700 this week, he said there's not a shred of clinical evidence to support this claim. And yet you'll see

00:17:17.220 that almost every article, almost every like, even just a tweet of people condemning Daniel Smith's

00:17:23.480 policy, they always note this statistic that kids will kill themselves. It's a threat. It's used as a

00:17:30.500 tactic. They will kill themselves. You don't give them what they want. So you have to give them what 1.00

00:17:33.320 they want. Well, when we look at the actual statistics, this is from an organization called

00:17:38.620 statsforgender.org. We learned that there is little evidence that medical transition decreases

00:17:43.940 suicidality. When it comes to gendered for children, there is little evidence that medical transition

00:17:49.780 decreases suicide rates. There's little evidence to assert that puberty blockers are necessary to

00:17:54.280 prevent surgery. So I'll just quickly read here. It says after sex reassignment surgery,

00:17:58.860 one study showed that adult transsexual clients were 4.9 times more likely to have made a suicide

00:18:05.200 attempt and 19.1 times more likely to have died from suicide after adjusting for prior psychiatric

00:18:12.100 comorbidity. Similarly, an Australian paper notes that many patients have poor outcomes, which puts them

00:18:18.600 at risk of suicide. That means that the surgeries get botched. I covered that on my last show as well.

00:18:23.360 Surgeries get botched. These people are in chronic pain as a result, and that puts them in a higher

00:18:28.860 risk of suicide. A prominent study claiming that medical transition alleviated suicidality had to

00:18:34.260 be corrected to clarify that it proved no advantage of surgery in this regard. A long-term Swedish study

00:18:40.020 finds that post-operative transgender people have considerably higher risks of suicide behavior.

00:18:47.660 Okay, so literally the opposite of what these people are claiming. Finally, a study from the European

00:18:53.100 Journal of Endocrinology demonstrates that suicide rates among transgender male to females were 51% higher

00:19:00.320 than the general population. So anytime you hear someone say that these kids will kill themselves if

00:19:07.740 you don't let them have these surgeries, just share these statistics. Share these statistics. Let them know

00:19:12.540 that this is not true. That the kids don't end up not killing themselves because they get affirmed and they

00:19:20.140 get this health care. It's the exact opposite. We have studies and we have the numbers to prove it.

00:19:25.620 And look, to another point, and again, I made this point in my last episode of my show, which is that

00:19:32.040 80% of children who suffer from gender dysphoria end up going back to wanting to be their original

00:19:38.820 biological sex post-puberty. So this is a stage that kids go through. It's very uncomfortable. It's very awkward.

00:19:46.740 A lot of the children that suffer from gender dysphoria have other issues and other illnesses.

00:19:52.080 A lot of them suffer from mental health. A lot of them are on the autism spectrum, something that we

00:19:56.500 don't often talk about as well. But 80% of them end up going back to wanting to be their original

00:20:01.700 biological sex. And many of them end up just being gay or lesbian as well. And so the idea that we need

00:20:08.460 to indulge these children and give them life-altering medications, in some cases surgery as a solution,

00:20:14.800 and the CBC advocates, like, it's absolutely urgent. We have to do it now. And if we don't,

00:20:19.800 the kids will die. Like, none of that is true. It's all propaganda. It is absolute ideological

00:20:25.100 nonsense. And people need to reject it. People need to learn the facts and they need to reject it. 0.72

00:20:30.120 It is the role of parents and adults in our society to help children, to help them understand the world,

00:20:35.580 to help them guide through difficult decisions and difficult stages of their life. And it is not helpful

00:20:41.800 to indulge these children in delusions, in fantasies. It is not helpful to politicize them

00:20:46.960 and make them political bonds and political tools to fight against your chosen political adversary.

00:20:53.900 And what the CBC is doing here, this is not journalism. Like, every aspect about this is silly 0.65

00:20:59.520 and farcical and obviously agenda-driven, but it's also terrible. Like, this is not based on the truth.

00:21:06.900 This is not based on anything honorable. They are pushing a twisted ideology that actually leads to

00:21:12.320 more pain and more suffering in our society that takes confused children and manipulates them 0.97

00:21:20.680 and leads them to wanting to destroy their own bodies, to prevent them from having children in the 0.97

00:21:27.420 future. Like, everything about this is just so terrible. Like, I would usually laugh during Vake News Friday

00:21:32.660 and say, like, how silly is this news story? We should all make fun of the CBC. But this is far worse.

00:21:37.980 This is poisonous. This is cancerous. And this is just one other reason that we seriously need to get rid of

00:21:43.560 the CBC. This organization needs to be defunded once and for all. What they do is not journalism.

00:21:48.520 It is activism and it is bad for our country. It's bad for society. Bad for the world. And especially

00:21:55.200 bad for people who read it and digest it and consume it and believe that it is true. I'll leave

00:22:00.680 it at that. Thank you so much for tuning in. Have a wonderful weekend. It's Fake News Friday. I'm

00:22:04.440 Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

Juno News - February 23, 2024

DEBUNKING the CBC’s radical trans nonsense

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