'Leave the kids alone!' The largest protest against gender ideology in Canadian history
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Summary
The largest protest against gender ideology in Canadian history took place in our nation s capital yesterday and I was on the ground to capture the scenes. Organized by Chris Elston, better known as Billboard Chris, and student activist leader Josh Alexander, hundreds of parents, children, and students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds showed up to peacefully reject gender ideology and indoctrination in Canadian schools. On the other side hundreds of counter-protesters also showed up, trying to disrupt the event, block the planned march, and drown out the hate.
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Leave our kids alone, leave our kids alone, leave the kids alone, leave the kids alone.
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Harrison Faulkner for True North, the largest protest against gender ideology in Canadian history took place in our nation's capital yesterday
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Organized by Chris Elston, better known as Billboard Chris, and student activist leader Josh Alexander,
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hundreds of parents, children, and students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds
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showed up to peacefully reject gender ideology and indoctrination in Canadian schools.
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Now on the other side, hundreds of counter-protesters also showed up to disrupt the event,
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block the planned march, and in their words, drown out the hate.
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Despite the fact that the protesters were far more peaceful than the counter-protesters were.
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But nonetheless, there they were, making most of the noise, causing most of the trouble,
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disguising their faces whether it was in black block like Antifa, or they were wearing masks,
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and of course, waving their rainbow and transgender flags.
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I approached the group of counter-protesters to see if anyone wanted to talk to an independent journalist
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and explain why they were there, and as you can see, the group that was there to apparently drown out the hate
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wasn't so happy to see an independent journalist wanting to ask them some questions.
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We're going to try and ask some people why they're here, what brought them out.
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We're going to ask some people out here what brought them out here,
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and what their issue is with some people opposing gender ideology in schools.
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We're going to try and block, you can see, the counter-protesters.
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Is this what protecting transnational schools did?
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Now, leading up to this protest, groups like Horizon Ottawa,
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anti-hate network and other far-left organizations tried to rally the troops to oppose this protest
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organized by billboard chris a press release put out by horizon ottawa labeled the event an
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assembly of transphobic fascists they also went on to say that there's a growing connection between
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the anti-transgender movement and white supremacists and as you can see now that wasn't
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exactly what it looked like on the ground we've all seen the reports and viral videos coming out
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of our schools these days at some point in canadian history our schools went from looking like this
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and the parents that showed up to this protest yesterday aren't happy about it one bit take a
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listen at what they have to say we teach about this and they are kids and even the baby my son
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he's in kg2 they start to learn him in 21 of june they have a pride they have a celebrate for kids
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like i don't know like what kind of life you are live and in this canada it's a freedom it's a
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freedom for everyone well i think it's horrible because it's it's an agenda that's forced on our
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children against parents wishes against parents knowledge and it's like the state is trying to
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inculcate certain values in our children that we may not share and sort of separate them out from us
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our kids are suffering from be witnessing things that they have never seen before they don't know
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how to process it they don't know how to understand it school is for education for learning about math
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english science that's that type of stuff not for them to learn about um other sex you know and they
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are just children they shouldn't be learning about this stuff and i believe that they should just leave
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the kids alone we're just here to support the children basically um adults we're fine with them
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doing whatever they want all we all we're asking is that children be left alone that their innocence
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and purity be left intact that's it we are protesting the uh shoving of their ideology to our kids in
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school inappropriate media inappropriate content in school environment and it's none of their business
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who's sexual who has what sexual uh preference and it's not for kids to be exposed to that it's not
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an education for our kids education it's mass history geographic this is not an education we're here to
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protect our kids there were some political figures in attendance as well yesterday on the conservative
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side derek sloan the former conservative member of parliament and also conservative leadership
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candidate spoke with true north about what his message would be to conservatives at both the
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provincial and federal level who don't seem willing at all to fight back against gender ideology
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here's what he had to say about that this is a lightning rod issue it will it will become more so
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as more people wake up to it uh be at the front of the train not the back unfortunately the
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conservatives are very afraid to touch social issues of any stripe they need to remember that all
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issues are on the plate when it comes to winning over voters and in this particular crowd there's a
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diverse crowd here there's a lot of muslims there's a lot of people from various backgrounds these are
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voters but more than that this is the right thing to do and leadership should always do the right thing
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whether it's popular or not on the counter-protester side ontario ndp provincial politician joel hardin
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was there wearing a rainbow suit and waving a transgender flag before the event on thursday joel
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hardin stood up in the provincial legislature queens park and called the event a hate rally watch this
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we are sadly having to oppose an anti-transgender anti-queer hate rally that's happening at the foot of the
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street hardin disappeared before i could catch up to him and ask him a few questions about his
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decision to call the event in the legislature a hate rally i also had the chance of course to catch
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up with both organizers billboard chris and josh alexander here's what they both had to say about
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the event amazing this is the biggest protest in canadian history i think when you combine the
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counter-protesters i think this is the biggest protest and counter-protest in the world there's probably a
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thousand people here so at least it's amazing we're starting a lot of conversations which is my goal
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the only thing that can ruin this is if people started getting violent so my goal is always to
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have conversations and to start conversations and we're achieving that goal big time today so gender
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ideology is actually deeply homophobic when you look at all the academic studies that have ever been
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done into gender dysphoria 80 to 90 of these kids simply grew out of it when they went through puberty
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puberty itself was the cure for gender dysphoria in almost all cases now we block the cure
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but a majority of these kids historically actually grew up to be gay it makes a bit of sense when
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you think about it an effeminate little boy might grow up to be gay but my message is one of true
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body positivity my message is that there is no right way to be a boy or a girl if a girl is more
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masculine if a boy is more feminine beautiful no problem if a girl wants to climb trees and play in
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the dirt and hates wearing dresses she's a beautiful girl she's not trans and we need to get away from
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this idea that just because children don't conform to sexist aggressive stereotypes that they were
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born in the wrong body that's a psychologically abusive thing to teach a child and this whole
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pronoun business as well when you use the wrong pronouns for a child what you're essentially doing
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every time you do that is you're sending a message that that child was born wrong that that girl should
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have been a boy or that boy should have been a girl and these kids are in school now receiving this
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they're being reaffirmed thousands of times throughout the school year that they were born
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wrong and so now they believe that the only way they'll find true happiness is by getting puberty
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blocking drugs cross-sex hormones and surgeries that's nonsense we should be telling our kids
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they're beautiful just as they are if they want to do something as an adult to modify their body
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that's a different conversation so ultimately this is about education over indoctrination that's a
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provincial issue and steven lecce the conservative so-called conservative education minister in ontario has
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overseen the radical expansion of gender ideology in our schools what's your message to steven lecce
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the education minister and also at the federal level conservatives who seem to not want to touch
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this subject with a 10-foot pole this is a far-left political ideology that floated around academia for
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decades and it's now emerged into the mainstream and they've been very successful in pushing this
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because they say this is about helping children to be who they really are really is cutting off body
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parts of a child helping them to be their true self i don't think so is stopping the physical
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development of a child helping them to be who they really are it's absolute nonsense this is like a
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cult that has permeated all of society and now it's in all of our schools and we can't let that remain
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our children need to learn how to read write do arithmetic they don't need to be learning about
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sexual orientations in kindergarten they don't need to be learning that maybe they're trans
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in grade one or two this is just total nonsense leave these kids alone let them grow up stop
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telling them that they're born in the wrong body quite an impressive turnout um i'm i'm excited to
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see that people from every uh perspective have come here um obviously i disagree with the multitude of
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them but um i think it's important that we have discussions it this has been a little more of a
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hostile environment so it's been difficult to do so but uh we have been able to have a few uh successful
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dialogues there and uh yeah all in all i'm happy we're starting conversations and that's what's
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important i've been uh speaking and standing with and uh supporting little muslim boys that are no
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taller than my knee we're uniting we're standing together and that's what's important this isn't
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about hate we're actually uniting we're bringing people together under one common goal which is to
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protect the kids from this gender ideology politicians need to you know get some rocks and
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do what needs to be done um i mean all of canada has thrown their support behind pierre pauliev
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he is a coward i i hate to say that the leader of the conservative party of canada is a coward
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but uh he is and he's not alone um i have i have an issue with any politicians that's sitting on the
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floor and ignoring these issues right now like we said the chance here are leave the kids alone
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children cannot consent um it's pretty basic stuff uh there shouldn't even be a debate here
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um but uh no it's not hateful at all we're here with the message of love and we've been giving out bibles and
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preaching the gospel and giving the true the the the one greatest love story in history which is jesus
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christ on the cross so i would say this is a message of love think the tide is going to turn
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think this is going to finally go the opposite direction eventually i think we're getting there
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uh young people aren't going to buy into this for very long and that's obviously their number one
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target right now they want to get to the youth and uh it's important that we uh be there and they
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know that they have people that support them and that will support the truth and uh i mean a lot
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of people ask why we choose to give out bibles here whether it's a street preaching gig or
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a protest and uh i'd be i mean i don't see why they can't be the same thing we're going here
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kids are taught a lie and we're giving them the truth