Juno News - March 08, 2024


The authoritarian left is not happy with the CBC


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00:00:00.400 Authoritarian leftists in Canada are not happy. Why? Because the CBC in Quebec dared to do
00:00:06.700 something that CBC English would never do. They told the truth about rapid onset gender dysphoria
00:00:12.660 and the terrible and crippling impact it has on girls and young women who are lured down that
00:00:18.320 path. It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
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00:00:51.600 and you will never miss an episode. Okay, so today I want to talk about some extraordinary
00:00:57.080 journalism that was done by none other than the CBC. And I know Fake News Friday is usually the
00:01:02.760 show, the time of the week, where I pick the absolute worst stories, the worst examples of
00:01:07.180 fake news and bias reporting and expose it. Today is going to be a little different. I'm going to
00:01:12.240 talk about a piece of journalism that was tremendous, that really did something that so few in Canada
00:01:17.920 these days are willing to do. And I'm going to focus on the reaction because the reaction to this
00:01:23.280 documentary is really telling. And the reaction that we see from the authoritarian left, the people
00:01:30.560 who just want to shut down any debate, any conversation, they don't want to have these
00:01:34.780 conversations, which is all the more reason why we should have these conversations. These conversations
00:01:38.740 are so important. Okay, so last Friday, March 1st, the French version of CBC, which is called Radio
00:01:46.060 Canada, Quebec CBC, they put out an original documentary, an hour-long documentary. It aired on
00:01:51.840 Friday evening. It was called Trans Express. Trans Express. And really, I mean, it was essential. It's
00:01:59.800 in French, and I'm going to do a future episode on it where I break down the entire content of the
00:02:05.800 documentary because it's so well done. And again, it's something that English CBC would just never do.
00:02:10.840 And so I didn't want to try to squish that into this episode. I'm going to save that for a future
00:02:15.220 episode where we're going to go through and I translated it, and I'm going to explain exactly what
00:02:19.940 they learn, what they tell, and what's happening in Quebec. But today, I'm going to focus, like I
00:02:24.440 said, on that reaction. So just in a nutshell, the documentary follows four young women, girls in
00:02:31.840 Quebec, who are sort of lured down this path towards gender transitioning. It starts out with puberty
00:02:37.760 blockers. Basically, all you need in Quebec is one letter of recommendation from a doctor, which we
00:02:43.060 learn is incredibly easy to get in as little as, again, just one 20-minute consultation. Some doctors are
00:02:49.020 willing to write this letter. From there, that allows you to go on puberty blockers, which girls
00:02:53.320 start the documentary. We saw young girls doing it as young as 12, 13 years old. The next step in the
00:03:00.120 so-called gender affirming health care, which is really just sort of, again, promoting trans and
00:03:06.600 sex change. Gender affirming is a euphemism. But again, pushing sex changes onto young girls. The next
00:03:14.100 step is testosterone. So they start taking, it's a really intense drug that just changes everything
00:03:18.940 about their body and their mood and everything. I mean, pumping a child full of testosterone is really
00:03:25.400 quite something. And then from there, they often want to move on to the surgical element, which is
00:03:30.360 including a double mastectomy, basically having your breasts removed. And from the story, what we heard
00:03:37.180 is basically that many girls that go through this process, once they grow up, once they get past puberty,
00:03:41.760 past the awkward stages of being in those young, you know, 13, 14 years old, by the time they're 18,
00:03:48.720 many of them do have regrets. Many of them start the process of detransitioning. And so again,
00:03:54.740 that's what we learned from this documentary. I really do encourage you to take a look, especially
00:03:58.560 if you speak French, or if you want, you can watch it with the subtitles on. But again, really important
00:04:04.440 work. And I think that this is the kind of thing, this is why we need journalism. This is why
00:04:09.220 journalism is so important. You know, I spend a lot of time on this program, criticizing journalists,
00:04:15.460 talking about how biased they are and how bad they are at their jobs. But the reality is that the role
00:04:20.080 of a journalist in a society, I believe, is very important, that your job is to tell stories,
00:04:26.340 to talk about social trends, talk about social contagions, even if it's unpopular, even if it's
00:04:32.240 unpopular. And here is a case where it is uncomfortable and unpopular to talk about the stories,
00:04:38.380 mostly because of the reaction that we see from the left. But you can still have a big impact. We saw this
00:04:43.900 happen in London a few years ago. So a BBC journalist, now former BBC journalist, Hannah Barnes,
00:04:50.560 wrote a book about what was going on at the Tavistock Clinic. The Tavistock Clinic was the main
00:04:56.160 center where kids were getting transitioned, girls were getting transitioned in London. A woman wrote
00:05:01.800 a huge expose, Hannah Barnes did a tremendous job, really just talking about how quickly this process
00:05:08.300 was taking place, how many girls were just rushed through the process, and how many of them again
00:05:13.000 ended up regretting it. The practices were so sloppy. And the result of Hannah Barnes's incredible
00:05:17.580 journalism was that Tavistock Gender Identity Clinic closed. They closed because of the work of this one
00:05:24.600 journalist. So these kind of reports have an impact, they can really change what's going on
00:05:29.500 in society. And so again, just want to applaud Radio Canada, CBC French for having the courage to put
00:05:36.900 together this report. And like I said, I watched it, I watched in great detail. It's really, really well
00:05:41.360 done and tremendous. And now, because it was so well done, and it will have an impact in Quebec, it's
00:05:47.020 already having an impact in Quebec. The usual voices, the trans activists came out avidly opposed to it.
00:05:54.060 They were mad. They were angry. They were swearing. They were not happy that someone would dare to do
00:06:01.320 an expose on transing of young girls and young women. And basically, they don't want you to know
00:06:08.000 what's happening. That's the gist of it. They don't want you to know. So they have these really
00:06:13.280 profound, angry reactions to try to chill speech and to try to make people feel scared to talk about
00:06:20.300 these topics. So here are a couple of reactions. We had a lady called Michelle Blanc, who's a
00:06:25.300 transgender woman, which means a biological man. She went on radio. He went on radio in Quebec and
00:06:34.140 basically said that he was profoundly shocked by what he saw and that what we've seen is that it went
00:06:41.980 from being very hard to change genders to being very easy. And he's saying that's a good thing. But the
00:06:47.100 whole point of the documentary is saying that's a bad thing. We should probably proceed with caution
00:06:51.080 when it comes to sex change operations, especially for girls going through puberty. Okay, next we had
00:06:57.120 a trans activist called Celeste Trianon, and she accused Radio Canada of performing junk science
00:07:03.240 and claiming that this, by further platforming anti-trans junk science, Radio Canada is granting
00:07:10.140 a voice of authority to these bad faith actors who are attempting to erase us, dehumanize, and
00:07:16.220 eliminate us from public life. Let me tell you folks, I watched the documentary. That's not what
00:07:20.600 it does. There's no bad faith actors here. There are concerned physicians. There are concerned parents.
00:07:25.420 There are women who really live with the regret of their actions. That's not bad faith. Okay. These are
00:07:31.760 people telling a story. No one's attempting to erase trans people or dehumanize them or eliminate them
00:07:39.300 from public life. We're trying to understand this phenomenon and make sure that children are
00:07:43.560 protected. That's not the same thing. And this is kind of what they do, right? They throw really bad
00:07:47.980 accusations at people who want to talk about this issue. They make you feel like you shouldn't talk
00:07:53.140 about it, or you will get accused of being a bad faith actor or being a bigot, being a homophobe or
00:07:58.380 transphobe, and trying to eliminate trans people from public life. Okay, next we have a University of
00:08:06.320 Alberta law professor called Florence Ashley. She wrote on X that Radio Canada is jumping on the
00:08:13.740 moral panic train by making a whole documentary platforming anti-trans views in the middle of an
00:08:21.080 unprecedented rise in legal persecution towards trans people in Canada beyond disappointing.
00:08:27.140 They should be ashamed. Interesting that she calls this a moral panic. Look, we've lived through a
00:08:33.060 couple of moral panics in the last few years. I think COVID and the vaccines, that can easily be
00:08:38.400 classified as a moral panic. I don't really see a moral panic when it comes to trans people. I think
00:08:43.320 that really this trend kind of came up quickly. Not a lot of people were paying attention to it. The numbers
00:08:48.540 have changed drastically in the last 10 years. A lot of people, again, are still asleep to it. And now we
00:08:54.340 finally have voices and people coming forward saying that the strategies that we're taking and the way that
00:09:00.400 some of the medical community are treating this issue isn't right, isn't good. That's not a moral
00:09:06.420 panic. That's just being prudent and reacting to what's happening around us. She claims that there's
00:09:11.840 an unprecedented rise in legal persecution towards trans people in Canada. I have to say I have no idea
00:09:18.920 what she's talking about. An unprecedented rise in legal persecution towards trans people in Canada.
00:09:23.660 Does anybody know what she's talking about? A rise in legal persecution? Maybe I missed something.
00:09:30.300 Maybe I missed a whole bunch of stories about trans people getting arrested and jailed. Anyone know what
00:09:35.980 you're talking about? If you do, maybe you can write about it in the comment section because I'm happy to
00:09:39.800 look into that. But I am very unaware of any such thing that she's talking about. Okay, let's move on to
00:09:47.140 Rachel Gilmore, who has become one of our favorite people to highlight. She's a former journalist with
00:09:53.740 Global News, and now she seems to be doing investigative reporting with an advocacy organization
00:09:58.840 called Check My Ad. She calls herself an award-winning journalist, and she's very active on Instagram
00:10:05.120 and TikTok. So she had sort of the loudest reaction and the most in-depth. So we're going to play a couple
00:10:12.760 of her videos here and react to them. So on March 5th, March 1st, sorry, shortly after the documentary
00:10:17.980 came out, Rachel Gilmore tweeted, Radio Canada's so-called investigation into gender-affirming care
00:10:23.720 is a case study in how not to do journalism. Okay, so this like what 25-year-old is going to give us
00:10:29.260 a case study in real journalism versus how not to do journalism. She says that it's embarrassing and
00:10:34.680 harmful, that has trans activists saying, what the F? CBC, she posted a little video of herself here.
00:10:41.560 So we're going to play this video now, and I will try my best to react and sort of try to respond to
00:10:48.840 some of the claims that she's making. Apologies in advance, because it's a little, it's a little
00:10:54.740 irritating to watch, but here we will watch this clip. Here is Rachel Gilmore.
00:11:01.540 Let's talk about an investigation that was published yesterday by Radio Canada, which has been slammed
00:11:05.820 as beyond disappointing. Of course, trans rights activist Faye Johnstone characterized it.
00:11:09.400 What the F? CBC? The investigation looked into gender-affirming care for trans youth,
00:11:14.200 but they didn't speak to anyone with a positive experience with transition until 40 minutes into
00:11:18.020 the hour-long investigation, which is grossly misrepresentative of gender-affirming care's
00:11:21.820 real regret rate. The Associated Press looked at 27 studies on the matter and found that 99% of
00:11:27.000 those who received gender-affirming care do not have regrets. But Radio Canada speaks to five...
00:11:31.100 Top of that right there. So first of all, Rachel says that they followed the experience of four
00:11:35.620 girls who went through transitioning, and only one was positive. I would sort of disagree with
00:11:41.200 that because, again, in the documentary, they do present the stories of four girls who all had
00:11:45.580 diagnosis of gender dysphoria and their various experiences. I would say that one of the girls
00:11:50.500 that they speak to early on in the documentary was positive about it. She was very excited about it.
00:11:54.740 She went through the gender hormone treatment. And it wasn't until later, when she got a bit older,
00:11:58.200 that she had a negative experience and wanted to detransition. So that whole thing that we don't
00:12:03.200 meet a positive story until 40 minutes in, it's just not how the documentary plays out. Second,
00:12:09.300 she uses a stat, which we do hear a lot. A lot of people throw this statistic around. It's from
00:12:13.560 the Associated Press. It says that 99% of patients do not have regrets. And so this basically looked at
00:12:20.080 27 studies of almost 8,000 teens and adults who had transgender surgery, mostly in Europe,
00:12:24.940 the US and Canada, only 1% expressed regret. So that is out there. But there are other studies
00:12:31.320 that painted very different pictures. So there was an Oxford study that came out in October
00:12:35.280 2022. And they found that the rates were quite different, that the rates of detransitions were
00:12:41.480 higher among trans men, 11%. Sorry, transgender women, which are biological men, 11%. And transgender
00:12:48.220 men, which are biologic women, 4%. And we're also talking about people who go through the process
00:12:54.600 of actually detransitioning. So we're talking about 11% or 4% that actually go and get the reverse
00:12:59.560 surgery done after the initial surgery. That's even a higher number than the people who might feel
00:13:04.840 regret. We heard on the show a couple of weeks ago about a doctor talking about how many of these
00:13:10.480 surgeries get botched because they're so novel and they're so difficult. And so people end up having
00:13:15.720 chronic pain or having a lot of discomfort, sexual discomfort, after these surgeries, that might
00:13:21.340 lead to regret, not necessarily detransitioning. Reuters also talked about this in December of 2022.
00:13:30.300 And basically, the idea is that in Europe, they follow the same course of action as we do in North
00:13:36.240 America, but they go much slower. It's a much more methodical approach, which is very different. And what
00:13:42.740 we learned in this documentary in Quebec is basically that the mindset of the doctors is that you have
00:13:47.400 to act as fast as possible to get this done because that will improve the mental health of the children.
00:13:52.620 So they really rush you through from hormone or from puberty blockers to hormones to surgery. It all
00:13:59.040 happens sometimes in a matter of like a couple of like 18 months or two years. And in Europe, it doesn't
00:14:05.820 happen that way. And so when you combine the studies from Europe and North America, you kind of water down
00:14:10.820 the results because Europe seems to be much more sort of thoughtful about this compared to North
00:14:16.980 America, where again, the emphasis is like, let's just get this done as fast as possible. And let's
00:14:23.120 not ask too many questions. And let's just like support and affirm the child in their gender dysphoria.
00:14:29.700 Final point here about detransitioning not being very common or being less than 1%. If that were really
00:14:36.220 the case, why is it that we see so many detransitioners in the public, on social media,
00:14:42.700 on YouTube, it seems that we constantly hear the stories of these young girls who were rushed into
00:14:47.700 this decision, who later regret it. Jordan Peterson did an excellent, excellent interview with a lady,
00:14:53.300 a young lady named Chloe Cole, who's 18. Her story is basically that she started transitioning at age 12.
00:14:58.580 And by 15, she had had the double mastectomy. So she started at 12. By 13, she was taking drugs.
00:15:04.700 15, she had the surgery. Now she's 18. And she's a strong advocate against this ideology.
00:15:10.020 And she talks about the process of detransitioning. So let's play that clip.
00:15:14.120 My dad asked like about the regret rates. And they said like, oh,
00:15:17.240 they didn't even, I don't think they even use the word detransition. They said like,
00:15:21.900 oh, it's, there's less than a 1% to 2% regret rate. And they also told my parents that
00:15:29.880 if I wasn't allowed to go through with this, then I would be at risk of suicide.
00:15:36.060 So those are all the typical things that they tell parents that if you don't allow your child
00:15:40.800 to transition, that they might commit suicide, that detransition regret is very, very low. And
00:15:46.080 don't worry about it at all. You know, in the documentary, the Quebec documentary,
00:15:50.980 it was really interesting. They interviewed a young woman who ended up detransitioning.
00:15:55.160 And she talked about how basically a week after she had her double mastectomy,
00:15:58.640 she felt regret. As soon as she removed the stitches and saw her new body, she didn't like it.
00:16:02.520 She still didn't feel good. And she knew that she wanted to get her breasts back essentially.
00:16:07.780 And so she called up her doctors, the same therapist that pushed her down this path towards
00:16:11.440 transitioning. And it was so ironic. At that point, they basically said, well, you know,
00:16:17.580 you're still in transition, you're still in trauma, why don't you wait, we need to do a year of therapy,
00:16:24.360 you need to wait at least three years before you can even talk about going down that path. And they
00:16:29.480 really urged caution. And she also made the point that when she wanted to transition, she had the
00:16:34.420 support of so many people, everybody sort of in her community online, people were excited for her,
00:16:40.080 her doctors really supportive of her transitioning. And then as soon as the coin flipped,
00:16:44.260 and she changed her mind, she felt completely alone, that no one was supporting her, that everyone
00:16:48.880 told her that she had to wait, that people told her that, you know, she was being too rash or whatever.
00:16:53.380 And it's just so ironic that they urge caution on that side, but not the initial life changing,
00:16:59.840 irreversible changes to her body. Okay, let's go back to Rachel Gilmore's video here.
00:17:06.040 Experts opposing gender affirming care for youth, three parents with negative experiences,
00:17:09.640 two teens with negative experiences, just one supportive expert, and one happy trans teen.
00:17:15.260 They also make a big show of attending. That's not true at all. Again, I watched a documentary,
00:17:19.820 the main voice that we hear throughout the documentary is a Quebec researcher who is in
00:17:25.840 favor of trans affirming care. So she's pro trans. And we have her voice throughout the entire
00:17:31.860 documentary explaining what the rationale is and why these things are happening, why it's happening so
00:17:37.280 quickly. And so for Rachel to say that they only interviewed one positive trans person,
00:17:41.680 I mean, it's very misleading. The documentary overall was very balanced. It actually did try
00:17:46.240 to show both sides of the story, even though its focus was on girls who felt harmed and it didn't
00:17:51.840 serve them well. But overall, you know, we heard from lots of different experts, lots of researchers,
00:17:56.660 and this idea that it only featured one isn't true. It also featured many clips from another doctor
00:18:02.460 in Quebec, who's sort of seen as a rock star in this field, very pro trans. And it featured her
00:18:07.700 comments throughout. And then at one point, it mentioned that they invited her on the show.
00:18:12.540 And she said no, she refused to go on the show. So again, Rachel's either didn't watch the
00:18:18.760 documentary, she's not being honest about what it did and what it says. Okay, let's keep playing this clip.
00:18:24.200 A conference in New York put on by this group, which is against gender affirming care for you.
00:18:28.100 Of the six experts interviewed in the entire piece, four are from this. Here's what Celeste
00:18:32.260 Trianon told me about this.
00:18:33.760 By further platforming anti-trans junk science, Real Canada is granting a voice of authority
00:18:38.600 to these bad faith actors who are attempting to erase us, to dehumanize us, to eliminate us
00:18:44.840 from public life.
00:18:45.760 Junk science is right. They repeatedly platform this Swedish anti-trans activist who says that
00:18:50.460 there's no evidence that providing gender affirming care is beneficial for mental health.
00:18:54.440 It's literally so easy.
00:18:55.500 Let's just stop right there. Okay, so basically, again, she claims that there's this group that's
00:19:01.560 overrepresented in the documentary. But then there's something wrong with that group. There's
00:19:06.240 just a group of experts in the field. And their positions have led them, their research has led
00:19:11.380 them to the position that it's not a good idea to rush girls with gender dysphoria, rapid onset
00:19:15.320 gender dysphoria, through a transition. And she says, just because they're part of this one group,
00:19:19.420 we shouldn't listen to them or that it's wrong. And then she, again, plays that clip of this woman
00:19:23.560 just randomly accusing them of junk science. And she takes aim at a Swedish doctor that was featured
00:19:29.320 in the documentary called Dr. Mikkel Landen. And so basically, this doctor who they call a quack
00:19:37.380 scientist pushing junk science. Reality, this is the chief physician at the University of
00:19:43.840 Gothenburg Hospital. He's a professor at that university in the Department of Psychiatry and
00:19:49.620 Neurochemistry. So a pretty credentialed, pretty successful, established doctor here, not just
00:19:56.340 like some quack, like, like, this is a person who actually knows what he is talking about, unlike
00:20:01.560 the two people that are featured in Rachel Gilmore's video. Okay, let's resume.
00:20:07.020 ...to find a study proving him wrong.
00:20:09.040 ...to find a study proving him wrong. ...to find a study proving him wrong.
00:20:10.560 Sorry, just one more point there, so we could pause that. So the point that she was making there was that
00:20:15.460 Dr. Landen, this doctor from Sweden, says that there's no benefit to transing in terms of mental
00:20:22.360 health. And so she just grabs this one study from the JAMA network, basically affirming her point.
00:20:29.300 But the reality is that you can find studies that will point to either direction. Like,
00:20:34.040 the experts don't agree on this topic, which is why it's such an interesting topic. It's still new,
00:20:37.520 it's still novel. There is basically a split among the people who look at it as to whether it's a good
00:20:42.080 idea to rush kids through transition. The rationale behind rushing kids through transition is that
00:20:47.260 many trans adults look back and say, you know, my teenagers are so difficult, and it would have
00:20:51.660 been so much better if I could have just been trans back then. And so the idea is to help mental health,
00:20:56.420 you just have to get these kids on the path, have them transition as soon as possible, and that will
00:21:00.280 improve their mental health. The other side is saying, well, look, people who have severe mental
00:21:06.240 health issues, transing doesn't help. Like, if you're depressed, and you have anxiety, and you have
00:21:11.660 suicidal ideation before transing, and then you go through all this medical procedures, including
00:21:18.460 sex change operations, essentially, at the end of the day, that might not solve the underlying
00:21:23.940 problem. A lot of these kids still remain miserable after the transition. And that's certainly what the
00:21:29.340 documentary aims to show. And there, of course, are studies that, that promote this as well. So
00:21:34.740 stats for gender, they had a, they looked at 129 female to male patients. And basically, because of
00:21:43.180 complication rates, they found that mental health worsened the outcome, especially after those who
00:21:49.820 had the surgeries. There's another study that says that there's little evidence to assert that puberty
00:21:54.640 blockers are necessary to prevent suicide. And a prominent study that looked at medical transitions
00:22:00.980 found that it did not alleviate suicidality, and that there were no, there's no advantage of surgeries. A
00:22:07.560 long term Swedish study found that post operatives transgender people actually have considerably higher
00:22:13.080 risks for suicide. So it's not just like a slam dunk look, I found this one study, therefore, this doctor is
00:22:19.880 completely not to be trusted. The reality is that these studies are complicated. And, and, and, and, like, what we
00:22:26.420 know, is that if you're happy, and you transition, you'll probably remain happy. If you have anxiety,
00:22:31.220 depression, and are suicidal, you're probably still gonna have to deal with those underlying issues.
00:22:37.860 Okay, let's go back to Rachel's clip.
00:22:39.160 14 year old seeking gender affirming care, they sent her to a private clinic where she secretly filmed
00:22:45.140 her conversation with a doctor, and she shared an extensive made up backstory and was ultimately
00:22:49.320 prescribed testosterone. But this is not the average experience with seeking out gender affirming care in
00:22:53.800 Canada as CBC's own reporting has found. But Radio Canada ignores this kind of thing and repeatedly reiterates
00:22:59.640 the idea that things are moving too fast.
00:23:01.880 Okay, let's stop it right there. So we covered this article that she's talking about the CBC article about kids in
00:23:07.960 Alberta, we covered it on Fake News Friday, two weeks ago. It's not a slam dunk. It's not saying like this, this
00:23:12.840 report right here, totally refutes what the other one is saying. This was a story criticizing private care,
00:23:19.400 criticizing the Canadian government for not providing more public care for trans kids. And they tried to
00:23:25.320 tie it in with the Alberta ban. And so what we saw in that show, I recommend you go back and watch my
00:23:29.800 episode on Fake News Friday, because the whole thing is really ridiculous and absurd. But the whole idea of
00:23:34.840 lack of access in Alberta is based on this one girl who wants to transition, but basically the doctor that
00:23:42.680 she goes to speak to isn't so sure that it's a good idea for her. And so we have this clip of this girl
00:23:48.680 describing her experience and going and seeing a doctor. So let's play that clip.
00:23:53.000 It was like, asked me really weird questions. Like what if I wanted to get pregnant someday?
00:23:57.720 What if I had a husband someday? I think he asked me like, what if you want to keep your boobs? Like it was so
00:24:05.560 weird and invasive. We just wanted a referral to a gender clinic, just a referral was all that we wanted.
00:24:10.440 And then it would be out of his hands. He refused to do that for us.
00:24:13.720 So this is not talking about lack of access to gender affirming care. This is talking about a
00:24:17.560 sensible doctor who sees a child, a petulant child, basically just going into a doctor's office,
00:24:23.320 demanding a letter, demanding drugs. Any doctor that's worth their weight would say no to a child
00:24:29.480 like this. Like a child can't just come into your office, demand something. I want drugs. Write me a
00:24:33.800 letter. Just do it. Don't ask me any questions. Saying that it was like somehow like creepy and weird
00:24:37.880 that a doctor would ask her about, you know, the future. Do you want kids? What if you have a
00:24:42.120 husband? What, you know, you're going to lose your breast. You might not be able to breastfeed
00:24:45.320 a child. You might not be able to have children. And the child was angry. The teenager was angry
00:24:50.840 and upset and just saying like, shut up doctor. Just give me the note. Give me the letter of
00:24:55.000 recommendation. Let me do what I want to do. Again, that's not an example of lack of access to care.
00:25:00.440 That's an example of a doctor doing really the job that doctors should be doing in our society.
00:25:06.200 Okay, let's play the rest of this clip. I think it's almost done.
00:25:09.720 Caution. I mean, they literally call the segment Trans Express, which makes me wonder,
00:25:13.800 what's the point of this? Because it really smacks of opportunistic moral panic at a time
00:25:17.560 when the trans community really doesn't need that. Meanwhile, anti-trans organizations and people
00:25:22.120 are thrilled about it. And the journalists responsible for the investigation are going on
00:25:25.720 Quebec's biggest talk show on Sunday. So I guess all that's really left to say is what the
00:25:30.040 CBC. What do you think of all this?
00:25:31.640 Kind of amusing. She asks at the end, what do you think of all this? And then, you know,
00:25:37.160 she posts a video on Twitter. And on Twitter, she doesn't allow anybody to reply because she
00:25:41.960 actually doesn't care what you have to say. She doesn't want anyone commenting on her pristine
00:25:47.720 works of journalism there. So yes, the documentary is called Trans Express because the whole idea
00:25:53.320 is that the philosophy behind transing kids in Quebec is to do it as fast as possible, to get it done
00:25:59.400 fast and quickly for the mental health reasons that she states. So calling the documentary
00:26:04.360 Trans Express is true. It's not opportunistic to talk about this issue right now. It's relevant.
00:26:10.520 It's culturally relevant because it's happening and so many parents don't know about it.
00:26:14.360 And then she's what? Angry that Jonathan Kaye was tweeting about it and that somehow makes it bad.
00:26:19.640 Or that the journalists who created the documentary are now going on the number one talk show in Quebec
00:26:24.040 to talk more about it. That's a win. That's a social win. That means that people
00:26:28.280 are interested in this. They care about it. They're having these conversations that they
00:26:31.720 might not have been having a year or two ago. And you can see that trans activists and the
00:26:36.520 authoritarian left like Rachel Gilmore, they're not happy about that. They just want to shut down
00:26:40.600 the conversation. They only want to hear from the people who are sort of approved that are saying the
00:26:45.320 right messages and anyone else, they work hard to try to discredit and silence them. Okay. So I think,
00:26:51.320 I think my producer is trying to torture us here because we have a second Rachel Gilmore clip here
00:26:56.920 that we're going to play and respond to. So this is, this is her reaction video. Again,
00:27:02.040 she put out the first one, the day the documentary came out on Friday, March 1st. This one came out
00:27:06.200 a couple of days later on Tuesday, March the 5th. So first she tweeted, some clinics in Quebec have
00:27:11.560 stopped providing gender affirming care to trans teens. It's a consequence of Radio Canada's sloppy
00:27:17.240 reporting on the issue. One doctor said they didn't include one Quebec doctor that provides gender
00:27:22.440 affirming care in their investigation. So I did. Like I mentioned a few minutes ago, they tried,
00:27:27.960 they tried, they talked about how they invited doctors to come on their program. And they said,
00:27:33.720 no, the doctors didn't want to go on the program. So Rachel pretending that she's some rockstar
00:27:39.160 journalist that's doing the job that an entire documentary team at the CBC failed to do is a bit
00:27:45.320 rich. Um, but what do you expect really? Okay. Let's play her second video that came out on Tuesday.
00:27:51.160 Some clinics in Quebec have stopped providing gender affirming care to youth. And according
00:27:56.200 to a doctor who still does provide this care in Quebec, that's a consequence of Radio Canada's
00:28:00.600 recent investigation in which they found the time to interview four separate international opponents
00:28:05.240 to gender affirming care for youth, but not a single Quebec based doctor who provides this care.
00:28:09.560 So Radio Canada, I did it for you. This is Antoine Cloutier-Blais, a doctor in Montreal who
00:28:15.560 actually works with trans patients. Here's what he had to say.
00:28:18.440 Radio Canada is not going to take responsibility here for whatever consequences are going to come out
00:28:26.120 of their documentary, but there are consequences. As of now, some clinics have decided to stop offering
00:28:33.880 teenage care because it's getting too high of attention and they're afraid.
00:28:40.280 The report he said. Okay, let's just stop right there. So we're supposed to believe a documentary
00:28:45.320 was aired on Friday night. This interview and this, this video was released on Tuesday. So we're supposed
00:28:51.880 to believe that on Monday, one business day, that gender clinics in Quebec have closed. You're going to
00:28:57.880 have to provide some evidence of that. Rachel, if you're a journalist and you're making claims,
00:29:02.200 you should probably provide the research and, and the evidence like you, like you claim, you know,
00:29:07.240 that you're debunking these other doctors with research that you found online. How can you just
00:29:11.720 claim that, that gender providing clinics have closed? I haven't seen a single news story. I
00:29:17.400 haven't seen a single tweet or anybody talking about a specific gender clinic that would have closed
00:29:24.040 one day after creating, releasing a documentary, the documentary was released. So if, if she's going to
00:29:30.040 make this claim, I think she should probably provide some evidence. I find it very hard to believe that
00:29:34.040 clinics stopped offering a service based on one documentary and that they were afraid of getting
00:29:38.360 attention. And if that is true, well, I'll just say that that is a win for the culture because that,
00:29:44.040 that that's, that's a fast reaction to a documentary. I do think this documentary will have
00:29:49.160 wide ranging effects and impacts. I think that it will wake up a lot of people in society to what is
00:29:54.600 happening and to the dangers and the harms of the process that we provide to girls suffering from
00:30:02.200 rapid onset to gender dysphoria. But I don't think it's happening that fast. I don't think it's
00:30:07.160 happening already. All right, let's resume this video. Important concerns from parents, but it approaches
00:30:13.320 them all wrong. The answer isn't as the investigation posits to make it less accessible. Instead, it shows
00:30:18.680 that frankly, like a lot of healthcare issues right now, gender affirming care needs to be better
00:30:23.160 resource. So it can provide the highest level of care to patients. He also fact-checked several
00:30:27.480 claims made in the investigation, including the impression it leaves that puberty blockers might
00:30:31.880 be unsafe. Okay, wait, wait, let's just go back to that first claim that she says that, that the goal
00:30:36.120 of the documentary was to reduce access. That's not the goal of the documentary at all. The goal of the
00:30:40.600 documentary was to inform the public of what is happening and to urge caution to say, Hey, maybe we
00:30:46.360 should take the approach that they take in Sweden and Finland, which is just to go slowly to make sure that
00:30:51.400 these girls are making the right decision to make sure they understand the gravity of changing their
00:30:56.280 sex, which will have an impact in their future. As a woman, you will never be able to, for instance,
00:31:02.280 reproduce, or if you are able, you won't be able to breastfeed your child. Like, like, these are huge
00:31:07.320 life-altering consequences. The documentary is just urging caution and to go slowly. They're not trying to
00:31:12.520 urge that you shouldn't have access or that we should, you know, close claims. That's not what they were
00:31:18.120 arguing at all. They were just really pointing out the voices of doctors saying, this is going too
00:31:23.560 fast. This is going too fast. And the idea that, that trans people in Canada don't have access,
00:31:29.400 the opposite is true. We have seen that governments across Canada, across the country, at every level
00:31:34.440 of government, politicians and governments have bought into the trans movement. We've seen story
00:31:38.760 for story of new gender affirming clinics, sex change clinics, opening up. The CBC reported just last month
00:31:46.040 that a new surgery clinic was opening up in Ottawa, the first one in Ontario. Likewise,
00:31:51.640 we learned that British Columbia was bringing in gender affirming surgery for trans people,
00:31:57.960 doing it closer to home. And of course, even, even in Alberta, even when Danielle Smith had the courage
00:32:03.320 to come out and ban these procedures for minors, in that announcement, she also said that Alberta would
00:32:09.400 be opening new clinics and places where people could go for trans surgeries, sex change surgeries.
00:32:18.280 So even Alberta, in some way is embracing this and providing more access. So the idea that this is an
00:32:24.280 access issue, that's the opposite, literally the opposite of what is going on here. Okay, let's go back
00:32:29.960 to that clip. We do know blockers are safe and have reversible effects and consequences of short-term
00:32:41.240 use of blockers are negligible. This care also requires regular check-in. No, we're going to stop
00:32:46.360 that doctor right there. Saying that puberty blockers are safe and have reversible effects is just
00:32:53.240 completely wrong. It's nonsense. Where have we heard that taking a drug, taking a medical intervention is
00:32:58.040 safe and effective. Where have we heard that before? I feel like anytime you hear a doctor
00:33:02.840 telling you that you can take a drug and it will have no effect on you, that they're safe and they'll
00:33:08.680 have no side effects, totally reversible, you should be skeptical of that doctor. And in this case,
00:33:15.400 we have reason to believe it. So National Post reported last year, so this is coming from the
00:33:21.000 British National Health Services. Britain's National Health Services long held that the effects are
00:33:26.520 considered to be fully reversible. That is a puberty blockers. But that position was updated in June 2020.
00:33:32.280 And it now reads that little is known about the long-term effects of hormone on puberty blockers in
00:33:38.440 children with gender dysphoria. While the physical effects may be reversible, it is not known what
00:33:43.800 psychological effects may be. It's also not known whether hormone blockers affect the development of the
00:33:48.600 teenage brain or children's bones. Side effects may also include hot flashes, fatigue, and mood alteration,
00:33:55.320 the website now states. So again, just stating willy-nilly that these things are totally fine,
00:34:01.000 totally reversible, don't even worry about it. Yeah, everyone should be very skeptical of that.
00:34:07.480 Okay, let's go back to Rachel. And hormone therapy is a process, and transitioning is a process,
00:34:14.520 and self-knowledge is a process. Patients usually start with puberty blockers, which buys them more
00:34:20.280 time to make their decisions before moving on to something like hormone therapy, which can be more
00:34:23.880 permanent. But patients are told that. Because in Quebec, once you turn 14, you can make decisions.
00:34:28.760 Just a second here. So she says that the whole point of the puberty blockers is it just buys time,
00:34:34.760 and it lets the child decide. Of course, this isn't true. Again, to the point that I've been making
00:34:38.280 throughout this clip, is that they rush you. They rush you to the next step. And usually, the girls who
00:34:43.720 are in the process, they just want to speed it up as well and go to the next step. And the statistics back
00:34:49.080 this up. So of the young ladies, of the girls and boys who get on to puberty blockers, according to
00:34:56.520 National Post, there was a study that looked at 174 children, nearly two thirds of them went on to
00:35:04.360 hormones. The documentary, Trans Express, had an even more shocking statistic. They said that nine out of
00:35:11.240 10 young ladies who go on puberty blockers, eventually go on hormones. So the whole idea
00:35:16.600 that they're just buying time and that not everybody takes the next step. That's not true.
00:35:21.800 And again, it's all part of the process. It's all part of the story that people are rushed into these
00:35:29.240 procedures. Okay, let's keep playing the clip.
00:35:31.160 ...on your own about almost all care deemed necessary for your health. But as Radio Canada painted a picture
00:35:37.240 of things happening too young and too fast, they didn't really mention this broader context.
00:35:41.320 Overall, Radio Canada has a lot it needs to explain about this so-called investigation.
00:35:45.480 What do you think? Again, what do you think? And then I'm going to turn off my comments,
00:35:49.960 because I don't want you to tell me what you think. It's funny that Rachel brought up the fact
00:35:54.200 that the age of consent in Quebec is only 14. Quebec is an outlier almost everywhere else in North America.
00:36:00.760 The age of consent is 16. And I could imagine in a different context, Rachel would argue that it's wrong
00:36:06.440 that a 14-year-old could consent to a sexual relationship or to marriage with an older man.
00:36:11.320 I don't think that she really thought that through. I think she just used that statistic
00:36:14.920 to try to like own the CBC or own Radio Canada and prove that she's right. But again, you know,
00:36:21.080 not a very thoughtful person. So you can't expect her to put much thought into those videos that she's
00:36:27.720 putting out. Okay, so let's take a step back here. Radio Canada produced an important piece of
00:36:33.560 journalism. And in Quebec, it will be influential and it will have an impact. This is for two reasons.
00:36:38.840 The first one is that the CBC is still relevant and is still important in Quebec. Unlike in the rest
00:36:44.280 of Canada, where people hardly watch it and viewership is very down, very low. Not a lot of people care
00:36:49.320 what's happening at the CBC. In Quebec, it's different and it is still relevant. People talk about
00:36:54.760 it. People listen, especially the fact that the hosts are now going or the documentary filmmakers are now
00:37:00.040 going on to Toot de Monde, which is a talk show that everybody watches in Quebec. It will have an
00:37:05.320 impact. And the second reason it'll have an impact is because the content is so incredibly interesting
00:37:12.760 and alarming. Most parents and most people don't really realize what is happening. They don't
00:37:16.440 realize the extent to which it's happening and how much things have changed in the last 10 to 15 years.
00:37:22.600 The more the people are aware of this issue, that girls are being pushed down this path,
00:37:28.360 the more people will oppose it. And it is for this reason that the documentary will change hearts and
00:37:33.960 minds. It will change public opinion in Quebec. And that is the reason why these radical trans
00:37:39.400 activists are having the reaction that they're having. See, there's nothing wrong with the
00:37:43.160 documentary. The documentary is excellent. The journalists involved were not motivated by bigotry
00:37:48.520 or hatred. They were simply doing their job, doing the job of a journalist, which is exploring and
00:37:54.120 exposing a harmful social trend. That is why the authoritarian left is responding the way they are.
00:38:00.520 You can see in their tactics how they're authoritarian. They don't want to have a debate.
00:38:04.440 They don't want to have a discussion. They're simply there to shut down debate by smearing opposition
00:38:09.000 voices, saying they're untrustworthy, saying they're bigoted, insisting that their facts are wrong,
00:38:13.640 insisting that the only experts that we should listen to are their experts. Well, that's not how civil
00:38:19.160 discourse works. That's not how a free society functions. A free society should applaud real
00:38:24.440 journalism. We should be happy and impressed by what we saw come out of Quebec. We should encourage
00:38:30.120 more of that. The fact that CBC in English hasn't picked up the story at all. The story has actually
00:38:34.600 barely made its way into English. Canada is actually quite telling about the difference between the two
00:38:40.360 CBCs. And really, we should, as a society, we should reject hysterical voices and activists who are
00:38:46.760 simply trying to shut down debate, trying to shut down conversations, and trying to ram through
00:38:52.520 their own ideology. Thank you so much for tuning in. It's Fake News Friday. I'm Katis Malcolm, and this is
00:38:57.080 The Katis Malcolm Show.