Premier Danielle Smith announces a bill on transgenderism, and we talk to Billboard Chris, an expert on the subject, about her plans for a new policy in Alberta regarding minors and gender identity in public schools. Ezra Levenveen, host of the Ezra Lee Vaynermedia show on the Rebel News Plus podcast, joins me to talk about it.
00:08:04.080You're giving presentations, whether it's to the United Nations or to government bodies.
00:08:10.400Really, this is your area of expertise that you've learned one person at a time,
00:08:15.900one conversation at a time, haven't you?
00:08:17.840Yes, I've had tens of thousands of these conversations, having spent thousands of hours out on the street,
00:08:24.300in busy downtown centers, at university campuses in nine countries in the world now,
00:08:29.800eight provinces, about 22 states, and 80 or 90 different cities.
00:08:34.580So I've immersed myself in this for really the past five years.
00:08:39.480My campaign is just a little over four years long, but I've pretty much read all there is to read about this.
00:08:45.980And I do have many friends who are the PhD experts on this subject,
00:08:51.280as well as many people who have gone through this transition and then detransitioned who speak about the harms.
00:08:56.560So there's absolutely no doubt whatsoever that there is wide public support for doing exactly what Premier Daniel Smith is doing.
00:09:05.300And yes, you could say the measures don't go far enough.
00:09:08.320I don't believe that 16 and 17 year old autistic kids who've suffered sexual abuse or trauma or have borderline personality disorder or other issues,
00:09:17.280I don't believe we should be stopping puberty in them and slowly destroying their bodies with the opposite sex hormones.
00:09:22.300But it's a fabulous start and we have to start somewhere.
00:09:25.600And also the issues about school, not teaching gender identity and sexual orientation to children without their parents knowing,
00:09:33.380this is a common thing that all people throughout the population would agree with.
00:09:39.640We would like our children to learn reading, writing and arithmetic, not LGBTQ-ology.
00:09:45.120And that's been a real emphasis of the LGBT side of things.
00:09:50.100And a lot of the teacher activists, they want to have these secret clubs, these secret meetings.
00:09:56.000And the secrecy, it's not an aspersion or an insult.
00:09:59.740That is part of how they structure these things so that parents are not informed, so parents can't intervene.
00:10:07.820The parents are sort of treated as the villain or the enemy or the person who would object.
00:10:14.500You can see how critics of it use the word grooming.
00:10:20.920And of course the teachers are appalled by that phrase because of its connotations.
00:10:25.400But what else is it when you try and separate a child from the conversation and care of their family
00:10:30.960and fill their head with an ideology that gets them to make the most astonishing life changes
00:10:37.200and the whole thing is done in secrecy from parents, that is happening.
00:10:41.920That's a core to what are sometimes called gay-straight alliances is somehow, sometimes what they're named.
00:10:49.100As if a teacher cares more about a student than their own parents.
00:15:15.000And we need to get back to reality, which is that all these children and young people are fine just as they are.
00:15:21.780What are we doing cutting off the body parts of children?
00:15:25.100I find this such a—even to hear those words is stomach-turning, let alone to see and to know what's going on.
00:15:34.180So, you agree with me that Danielle Smith is taking a very positive step, and I think showing a little bit of courage.
00:15:40.340And she's unsurprisingly being attacked, including by Marcy Ian, a federal cabinet minister who, for some reason, is a transgender activist.
00:15:51.240But let's move one province further to the west, your own home turf of British Columbia.
00:15:55.260It's very interesting to me to see the unity of the parties of the right.
00:16:00.980There is now one merged party of the right there, which I think is always a good step forward to winning government.
00:16:07.600John Rustad, who is a pretty independent-minded, freedom-oriented guy, I think.
00:16:12.620You would tell me just before we went to turn on the cameras that there's some shyness out there about this policy.
00:16:21.020Now, I understand B.C. and Vancouver in particular is progressive on social matters, but I have to believe that for the reasons you and I just talked about and for other reasons, cultural reasons, like a very interesting cultural mix in B.C.,
00:16:35.440I would think that a Danielle Smith-style, nuanced, balanced, loving approach would be enormously popular, not just by straight folks, but by almost everyone other than professional activists.
00:16:51.940Like, I just in my bones feel that that would be a winner in B.C.
00:16:57.320Tell me the status of the B.C. Conservative Party when it comes to this issue.
00:17:24.380My message is that children cannot consent to puberty blockers.
00:17:27.520There's only a few hundred people who are really these outlandish and very loud activists who make great noise.
00:17:34.300And, of course, all the leftist media goes along with them.
00:17:36.480But we don't need to worry about them.
00:17:38.040And the Conservative Party of British Columbia previously has stated that they wanted to get gender ideology out of schools.
00:17:44.600They have stated somewhat timidly that they want to stop this child abuse, this medical malpractice of blocking the development of perfectly healthy children.
00:17:54.400But they've gone silent about it lately.
00:17:56.460And that's been very concerning to me.
00:17:58.640And it's concerning because right now in the polls, they're running at about 50-50.
00:18:02.000The popular vote right now, according to the polls, is 50-50.
00:18:08.020And if that popular vote remains at 50-50, the Conservatives lose because they win by large margins out in the rural areas.
00:18:16.580But their vote isn't as efficient because in these inner city areas where there are many more ridings, they'll end up losing by smaller margins.
00:18:24.340So what they need to do in the final two weeks is get these swing voters.
00:18:27.640And in BC elections, I've paid attention to this my whole life.
00:18:30.920It's all about the last two weeks of the political campaign.
00:18:34.980They need to be strong for parental rights because all of these immigrant communities, all of these swing voters, they are not okay with gender ideology.
00:18:44.400The immigrant communities the most are against it.
00:18:47.560This is primarily pushed by white progressives, especially young females.
00:18:51.920And the people who are into this ideology, they're not going to get their vote anyway.
00:25:02.200You know, and the Premier talked about co-ed sports and how she's going to expand that.
00:25:05.860I think that's sort of like there's male bathrooms, there's female bathrooms, and then there's occasionally co-ed or other bathrooms.
00:25:13.640What I think she'll find is that not a lot of people join those other or trans leagues.
00:25:20.340Because I think for ideologues, it's about conquering women's places.
00:25:27.580You know, I think there's an aggressive – I mean, human rights law was designed, I think, to be a shield to protect people from discrimination, not a sword to attack people.
00:25:41.060And I think one of the reasons why so many people are falling away from a gay rights point of view – like, if you look at polls, over the last few years, support for gay rights is falling year after year.
00:25:53.540And it's not that suddenly people are anti-gay, I don't think.
00:25:56.820It's that the gay rights movement is so dominated by trans, and people say, whoa, whoa, whoa, you're not looking just to be left alone anymore.
00:26:04.340You're not looking to be protected anymore.
00:26:07.880You're using it as a sword to go after kids, to go after women's places.
00:26:11.820And I think what Danielle Smith is actually doing is she's saying to every school, every league in the province, let me make the tough decision for you.
00:26:20.020So, frankly, you can say, oh, it's out of our hands.
00:26:22.780We don't have to – like, I think a lot of ordinary people, coaches, managers, referees, they're scared.
00:26:28.960So now they can say, well, it's out of my hands.
00:28:53.860We've had conferences and done interviews with women in prisons where men claim they're women.
00:29:00.160And, of course, if you are a sexual predator in prison, in a men's prison, you are actually at some likelihood of being attacked by other prisoners.
00:29:11.840There's a kind of honor among thieves.
00:29:13.260If you're a pedophile in prison, you are actually in danger from the other inmates.
00:29:18.860So if you say, well, I'm a girl now, put me in with the women, not only are you protecting yourself from the other converts, but you've just given yourself access to women.
00:29:30.420And I didn't know this until recently.
00:29:32.640There are some prisons in Canada where mothers serve their sentence with their young children, which is something I didn't know happened.
00:29:41.200It's more like dorm rooms than prisons.
00:29:44.460And men are on the same grounds as that.
00:29:48.120Imagine letting a child-molesting male have access to women and even children by simply saying, I'm a trans, put me where I want to go.
00:29:56.980That's a subject for another whole conversation.
00:29:59.980Tell me what you're up to in the weeks and months ahead.
00:30:02.140Do you have other interesting trips planned?
00:30:56.760The people working at the UN are still just people.
00:30:59.380A lot of them are 30-year-old diplomats who just got out of college six years ago.
00:31:04.500And like everywhere else in society, they've just gone along with this TQ lobbying and they're afraid to say anything.
00:31:11.660But I met with representative for the Vatican.
00:31:14.300I met with the representative for a couple of different countries, one in the Middle East, one in Africa.
00:31:18.720Other countries wanted to meet, but they didn't have time.
00:31:20.740But I'll be going back there in six months and we're going to do a lot more at the United Nations because I've got help from the Alliance Defending Freedom International, which is a legal organization that offers help fighting all this madness all around the world.
00:31:33.460And we'll be meeting with many different reps and raising this issue there because even at those levels where this is coming from, this whole comprehensive sex education is coming from the UN, they're not all on board with it there.
00:31:46.280So one conversation at a time, I'm confident we're going to put an end to this.
00:31:49.820Well, I hope that I see you with other people sometimes on the ground, and I assume those are people in the local community coming out to support you.
00:31:57.240And I think it would be wonderful if you could sort of teach a little army of people the basic arguments, your style, how to handle aggressive questions.
00:32:08.700If you could somehow replicate what you're doing with a little army, and maybe you teach like a three-day crash course and how to do it, and you show video highlights of the best and the worst moments you had, and give tips for how to handle police who try and shoo you along, how to handle people who are physical with you.
00:32:31.100If you had like a crash course weekend course, and even some templates for signs, I think there's enough energy out there that you could have a little army that instead of you, and I know you're burning up the air miles, running around, you must be homesick a lot because you're on the road so much.
00:32:50.980I don't know, I'm just sharing, I'm just brainstorming here.
00:32:53.520It's none of my business, but I think it would be wonderful if you could somehow increase your firepower.
00:33:01.100Yeah, well, I think, you know, one of the main ways I do that is through social media.
00:33:05.820So I post some of these conversations, and it does help teach people how to handle some of the objections and how to speak about this in a positive manner.
00:33:13.440I work with groups like Moms for Liberty down south.
00:33:15.860They have 130,000 moms in virtually every state in the country doing grassroots efforts in their own communities.
00:33:24.880I work with a variety of organizations, especially in the United States, because quite simply, we have all these organizations.
00:33:29.460Whereas in Canada, we don't really have any grassroots organizations.
00:33:32.080So I try to do it that way, but I love your idea.
00:33:37.140I think the workshop for a couple of days would be an excellent thing to do.
00:33:42.820It's simply a matter of time, and maybe someone can help sponsor that.
00:33:46.680Because, you know what, I do all this at my own expense, and I'm losing tens of thousands, and so I can't really put on big events on my own.
00:33:53.100Well, we love to crowdfund, as you may know, and we've helped crowdfund for wonderful people across this country.
00:33:59.420And we even had a conference through the Democracy Fund that we helped crowdfund for called Women's Spaces in the Age of Transgenderism.
00:34:08.940And I learned so much at that conference, and maybe we could help with that.
00:34:14.980I mean, we have our main work to do, but one of the things about Rebel News, Chris, is, you know, every once in a while, we don't just talk about the news.
00:34:21.660We try and get involved and actually help with things.
00:34:24.360So anyways, I mean, you've got a million things on the go, and you're meeting with people at the highest levels.
00:35:37.960I don't know if that's true, but it is so unusual to visit China 30 times.
00:35:45.100And there's just no way that he wasn't at least a useful idiot in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:35:55.520Xi Van Fleet suggests he was more than just a useful idiot.
00:35:58.100He was a true believer who was eager to go along with it.
00:36:00.700And I think there's some truth to that.
00:36:01.900The fact that he scheduled his wedding for the anniversary of Tiananmen Square so he could remember it.
00:36:12.020I really think that would be like choosing 9-11 as your wedding day so you could remember it.
00:36:19.960But it's an awful day of death and sorrow and humiliation and setback and pain.
00:36:27.480Why would you associate any of those negative things with your wedding, which is a happy day of hope and the future and love, unless you thought the day itself was a happy day?
00:36:38.500So I'm sure there are some jihadists who get married on 9-11.
00:36:42.680If you really planned your wedding around the Tiananmen Square Massacre, that suggests to me that you sort of like that day.