DEBUNKING the CBC’s radical trans nonsense
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supposed journalists at the CBC are nothing more than radical trans activists, and on today's show, I'm going to walk you through the latest evidence. It's Fake News Friday, and I'm Candice Malan.
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Supposed journalists at the CBC are nothing more than radical trans activists.
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And on today's show, I'm going to walk you through the latest evidence.
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It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
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Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for tuning into the podcast. It's our favorite
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show here at The Candice Malcolm Show, the Fake News Friday segment. We are bringing it back.
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I saw this article from the CBC. It is peak CBC. Every single element of this story is just so over
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the top, so agenda driven, so ideological, so far from doing a service to Canadians by providing them
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with news. So I figured I would walk you through it in full just to show you what a farce CBC has
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become. So look, we've been covering this issue a lot on The Candice Malcolm Show and True North
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overall. I think it's an incredibly important story and revelation in Canadian media, in Canadian
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public policy, in Canadian life. The fact that a politician, Danielle Smith, has come out with a
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bold, brave policy to ban surgeries on gender dysphoric children, to ban life-altering sex change
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operations. And then seeing how other politicians across the country, namely Pierre Polyev, have
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followed suit and come along and defended this policy and now double down on that defense is
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something that would not have happened even a year ago in this country. I think it's a tremendous
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revelation, something worth covering in deep. So I'll take you back to that day that Danielle Smith
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announced the policy, which was February 3rd. And our friend Jonathan Kaye pointed this out on Twitter,
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that this is what the CBC national news page looks like right now. So John Kaye tweets,
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CBC news editors having the expected meltdown. This is what the national CBC news page looks like
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right now. And if we can just zoom in a little closer on what that page actually looks like,
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you can see the stories that they're covering. So the main story on the site is transgender allies in
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Calgary and Edmonton protests against Alberta's proposed new policies. Danielle Smith says legislation
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coming this fall. And then all of the other stories on the website. So there's one, two, three, four,
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five, six other stories. They're all reactions to Danielle Smith. And they're all from the exact same
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side, which is people who are outraged, people who find this absolutely unacceptable, people who are
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having a negative reaction. You know, in journalism school, we're taught like tell both sides of the
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story. I think to the CBC telling both sides of the story means, you know, tell the side of athletes
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opposing this policy, tell the side of doctors opposing this policy, tell the side of teachers
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opposing this policy, tell the side of activists opposing the policy. It was literally just all the
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different sides that oppose the policy. Even though we know that the statistics have come out,
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they've pulled Canadians. We know that somewhere between 50 and 75 percent of Canadians support Danielle
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Smith and what she's doing. But from the CBC's perspective, everything about this was a travesty.
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Every single news story had to focus on how wrong it was that she was doing this. And so this is
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coming from sort of the same mentality. I stumbled upon the story and I'm going to read it to you
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pretty much in its entirety. This is what the article looks like. It says, this clinic for gender
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affirming healthcare went private. The founder wishes it didn't. Floria offers virtual healthcare for
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trans and non-binary patients in Ontario and Alberta. And then it shows an image here of Dr. Kate Greenaway,
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who is the medical director at Foria, a virtual only clinic for gender affirming care. She launches
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privately run service after her former clinic closed due to funding changes by the Ontario government. So
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it's sort of the CBC is like two favorite things to rail against, which is anyone who is opposed to their
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trans ideology and also anybody who supports private care. And we get it all in this glorious news story.
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So let me just read it through you. It's like, again, peak CBC. If they can rail against someone
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and promote trans ideology and then at the same time rail against anyone for suggesting that there
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should be private healthcare in Canada, they will do it. And that's what this article does here. So
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let me just read through the story. It says, Kit Sparrow was faced with two options when he sought
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out gender affirming care, wait months for a specialist appointment or pay out of pocket for
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a privately run virtual service. The Ontario based accessibility technology engineer had spent years
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trying to understand his gender identity. Last March, he decided to visit his family doctor
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and begin transitioning. While his physician responded positively, they didn't have the training or
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experience to prescribe hormone treatment and instead referred him to an endocrinologist.
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This referral Sparrow says came with a seven month waitlist hearing that I had to wait
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even longer. It was a punch in the gut. He told a host of this podcast. So let me just stop here
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because like we're supposed to read this story with empathy for this young woman who suddenly believes
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that she's a man and she was pleased that her doctor went along with it. And then we're supposed to
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feel a great deal of sympathy that she had to wait seven months. Well, perhaps it's just a reminder,
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like to anyone who lives in Canada and has any experience with the Canadian healthcare service,
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like everybody waits, everybody waits for everything. Like when I was pregnant in Toronto and I needed to
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find an OB, I had to go to a family doctor and they get referred and then wait. And I was pregnant. I
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literally had to go see a doctor to have my six week visit and my eight week visit. And I had to wait.
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That's just the normal experience of people in Canada. There are currently 3.4 million people
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in Canada on some kind of a waitlist waiting for some kind of a surgery that's according to Second
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Street. So the idea that it's like so unusual or unfair that this individual had to wait seven months
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just doesn't really ring true for anyone who lives in Canada and has had the experience of having to see
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a doctor or wait to see any kind of specialist. That's just how the system works in our country,
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unfortunately. Okay. So going back to the story, it says, depending on where a patient is located
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in Canada, wait times for gender affirming care can be months. Here is a precarious position for people
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who are already struggling with their mental illness. So just another note here, when they say
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gender affirming care, that is a euphemism. It doesn't really exactly describe
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what is happening here. Okay. So the idea is that when it comes to gender for these people,
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they're saying that it is different than their biological sex. So the biological sex is a woman,
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but their gender that they see themselves as is a male. And so they want affirming care. So they want
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health care to make them a man. They want a sex change operation, which, you know, as everybody knows,
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you can't change your biology. You can't change your sex. So they say that you can change your gender
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and they want gender affirming care. So, so taking you to the other gender that that's,
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that's what they're referring to with this sort of soft, nice sounding gender affirming care. We're
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talking about sex change operations typically. And interesting note as well is that the article says
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right out that it's a precarious position for people already struggling with their mental health. So the
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article kind of lets the cat out of the bag and saying that the people who are going through this
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procedure are mentally unwell, that this is a form of gender dysphoria. These people are mentally
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unwell. And they're saying that because they're mentally unwell, we have to give them life altering,
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sex altering medications, medical interventions to somehow help save their mental illness. I mean,
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my initial instinct when I read that is these people are mentally ill, let's treat the mental illness
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rather than mutilating their bodies, because they believe that they are the opposite sex. I mean,
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it seems to me pretty clear in the subtext of this article that that is a proper response. However,
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that's the exact opposite of what the CBC is advocating here. Okay, I'll continue to read it says
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transgender health researcher Avery Ahart says the trans and non-binary community is facing a crisis of
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access to gender affirming care. And there may be value in trying to throw every possible solution
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at it. So interestingly, there's always a crisis when it comes to this stuff. It's always an emergency,
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crisis of care, we should throw every dollar possible at this issue. I mean, take a step back,
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like what are we throwing? What do you want to throw every dollar of care at? It giving drugs and hormones
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to very confused young people, offering really risky surgeries to people who might come to regret this
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decision, people who are already suffering from mental illness, it's like, it's like, not only are
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they so dead set on pushing their radical solutions to these social problems, but they want to treat it
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like every, like, we have to devote every dollar of taxpayer money possible to fulfilling their, you know,
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ideological wishes. So here she says, but she warns that further privatization of the healthcare risks
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creating an inequitable two-tier system where those with funds can get care quickly and those without
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it have to wait while investors profit off of a marginalized community. That might be one of my
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favorite sentences ever in a CBC story. This is sort of the argument that we've been hearing for like
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decades in Canada that, no, no, no, we can't, we can't have privatized care because it will just mean
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that rich people will get to pay and everybody else has to wait. Except for the current system that we
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have now we're just, everybody waits. 3.4 million Canadians waits. So at least in like this imagined,
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like they create this boogeyman saying like in this terrible two-tiered system, rich people will
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get, they will want everyone else to wait. Well, at least in that system, some people get the care
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that they need, as opposed to now where like nobody gets the care they need. Everybody waits, everybody's
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suffering from a system. And then they throw in for good measure here, while investors profit off a
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marginalized community. Like if we had a private system, investors would profit. What investors
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exactly is the CBC referring to here? What investors? Honestly, we're talking about like pensions,
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government pensions and teachers' pensions that are typically the ones that invest in like large
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private-held companies in Canada. So it's just so bizarre. This is a news article. This is written by a
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straight news reporter, not someone doing commentary, not an opinion piece, not an analysis. But they
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just write that in. Like everybody knows, everybody at the CBC, it's like common wisdom at the CBC that
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you cannot private healthcare because some people will get what they want, others will have to wait,
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and investors will profit. It's like just such a communist mentality. Okay, this article is almost done.
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Just finish it up here. It says, this is something that disincentivizes us from fixing what's wrong
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with our existing publicly funded healthcare system, says Everhart, assistant professor of geography at
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the University of British Columbia, facing a seven-month wait to begin hormone treatment
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with worsening mental healthcare. Sparrow decided to go to Foreo. Within a few weeks, he had a prescription
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for testosterone. I'm lucky enough to have been able to afford it, but I'm very disappointed that it's not
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already covered. This is life saving care. And I will be honest that I don't think I would be here
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today without it. So there you have it. The tried and true, the favorite tactic of the political left,
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if you don't give me what I want, I will kill myself or these people will kill ourselves. We hear this
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argument over and over and over again. So I wanted to sort of take a step back and just sort of,
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you know, go through some of these arguments that we see first. Within this CBC article,
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there were a couple of clips embedded. So I do want to show you them just because it shows you they,
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you know, they, they wrote this article and then they simultaneously also did a video segment where
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they interviewed a teen from Alberta to talk about the troubles that that teen had in basically getting
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access to the care that they wanted, getting access to the sex change operation that this teen was after.
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So first I'll play the clip. This is the teen complaining about the onerousness of having
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to speak to a doctor before getting the drugs that he was after, she was after. Play that clip.
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It was like, ask me really weird questions. Like what if I wanted to get pregnant someday?
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What if I had a husband someday? I think he asked me like, what if you want to keep your boobs? Like,
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it was so weird and invasive. We just wanted a referral to a gender clinic. Just a referral
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was all that we wanted. And then it would be out of his hands. He refused to do that for us.
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Well, good. He, I'm glad he refused to do that. It sounds like a common sense doctor there talking
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to a confused young teenager, uh, walking through the future risks because we know that so many of
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these children who undertake these life changing surgeries and procedures live to regret it. And
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when they're 20, 25, 30 years old and they do, it turns out, it turns out that they weren't, they don't
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want to be a man anymore. They want to be a woman. They want to have children. They want to be able to
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fulfill their duties as a, as a human being and procreate. And they realize they can't because
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they've had their uterus removed or they've been sterilized. So a doctor asking a child,
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just very common sense questions, like think about your future. Do you really want to carve
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up your body? Do you really want to lose your breasts? What if you want to have children in the
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future? I mean, those sound like really very decent and important questions to ask this child.
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And you can tell that the child there is saying like, how dare he asked me that question? Like,
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I saw this trend on Tik Tok and I want to do it. And I'm here to get my referral. Give me my drugs.
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Don't ask me questions, shut up and just do what I want. And it's actually kind of surprising that the
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CBC did that interview, conducted it and then aired it. Because when you, when, when I watch that clip,
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I see a petulant child who is very confused, not someone who I think it's like absolutely like life
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threatening that we indulge this child and change and give, give this child this exchange operation.
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I mean, it's pretty wild. Okay. I'll play one more clip. This is of the CBC's journalists. This
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person is a journalist talking about how important these exchange operations are and how they can be
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life saving. Let's play that clip. Trans youth say gender affirming health care can be life saving.
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But depending on where you live in Canada, it's hard to get. And the wait can be years long. But
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there are health care providers across the country providing this kind of care. They want to make it
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easier for kids and teens to get it. So that is a journalist. She comes across as an activist. She comes
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across as someone who is in a commercial trying to promote this butchery. But she's actually a journalist.
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And that was her online news segment that she did. So that's that's what we're dealing with here,
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folks. That's that's the state of journalism in Canada. And one final clip. This is a doctor that
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was interviewed giving the claim again that these kids will kill themselves if you don't give them
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what they want. So let's play that clip. Affirming care is sort of a bigger term, but it really means,
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you know, meeting the kid where they are. That's what endocrinologist Dr. Daniel Metzger wants to do.
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Metzger co-authored a new position statement by the Canadian Pediatric Society endorsing affirming
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care for transgender and gender diverse kids and teens. They have no legal support,
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but they also have no medical support in some places. Or if they had medical support, it's been
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taken away. So, you know, the unfortunate fact is that the suicide rate among trans youth is the highest of
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all that goes down very rapidly once a child is just talks to one grown up in charge and says,
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yeah, we believe you. Let's help you out. Metzger says many kids and teens are only interested in
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social transition, changing their appearance or their name. So that's not true. That last line
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about how most of these kids are not interested in any kind of medical intervention. All they want is
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just to talk to an adult who will understand and they just want to change their appearance and go
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by a different name. That's obviously not the case because if that was the case, then we wouldn't be
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having this discussion. Then Daniel Smith's policies about banning surgeries and hormone treatments,
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they wouldn't have cared. If the biggest issue, most of these kids just simply wanted to go by a
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different name at school, that's one thing. That's one thing. But what we're talking about is these
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interventions is the surgeries and the hormones. And that's why they're up in arms. So they can't
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simultaneously say like, most kids don't even want the drugs, they don't even want the surgeries.
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And then when a politician says, Okay, fine, we're not going to allow really good, good that they don't
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want them because we're not gonna allow them. And then they all like scream and pull their hair out and
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say that it's, you know, a dictatorship. It's like, because the first statement isn't true. So I just want to
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quickly go through this claim, this idea that if you ban kids from getting these surgeries and taking
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these hormone drugs, it puts their lives at risk because you do a little digging and you find, you
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know, Dr. Jordan Peterson, I share this in my show earlier this week, he said there's not a shred of
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clinical evidence to support this claim. And yet, you'll see that almost every article, almost every like, even just a
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tweet of people condemning Daniel Smith's policy, they always note this statistic, that kids will
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kill themselves, it's a threat, it's used as a tactic, they will kill themselves, you don't give
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them what they want. So you have to give them what they want. Well, when we look at the actual statistics,
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this is from an organization called statsforgender.org. We learned that there is little evidence that
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medical transition decreases suicidality. When it comes to gender disforged children, there is little
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evidence that medical transition decreases suicide rates. There's little evidence to assert that
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puberty blockers are necessary to prevent surgery. So I'll just quickly read here, it says after sex
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reassignment surgery, one study showed that adult transsexual clients were 4.9 times more likely to
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have made a suicide attempt, and 19.1 times more likely to have died from suicide after adjusting for prior
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psychiatric comorbidity. Similarly, an Australian paper notes that many patients have poor outcomes,
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which puts them at risk of suicide. That means that the surgeries get botched. I covered that on my
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last show as well. Surgeries get botched. These people are in chronic pain as a result, and that
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puts them in a higher risk of suicide. A prominent study claiming that medical transition alleviated
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suicidality had to be corrected to clarify that it proved no advantage of surgery in this regard. A long-term
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Swedish study finds that post-operative transgender people have considerably higher risks of suicide
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behavior. Okay, so literally the opposite of what these people are claiming. Finally, a study from the
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European Journal of Endocrinology demonstrates that suicide rates among transgender male to females
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were 51 percent higher than the general population. So anytime you hear someone say that these kids will
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kill themselves if you don't let them have these surgeries, just share these statistics. Share these
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statistics, let them know that this is not true, that the kids don't end up not killing themselves
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because they get affirmed and they get this health care. It's the exact opposite. We have studies and we
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have the numbers to prove it. And look, to another point, and again I made this point in my last episode
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of my show, which is that 80 percent of children who suffer from gender dysphoria end up going back to
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wanting to be their original biological sex post puberty. So this is a stage that kids go through.
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It's very uncomfortable. It's very awkward. A lot of the children that suffer from gender dysphoria have
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other issues and other illnesses. A lot of them suffer from mental health. A lot of them are on the
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autism spectrum, something that we don't often talk about as well. But 80 percent of them end up going back
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to wanting to be their original biological sex and many of them end up just being gay or lesbian as well.
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And so the idea that we need to indulge these children and give them life-altering medications,
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in some cases surgery, as a solution and the CBC advocates like it's absolutely urgent. We have to do
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it now and if we don't the kids will die. Like none of that is true. It's all propaganda. It is absolute
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ideological nonsense and people need to reject it. People need to learn the facts and they need to reject it.
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It is the role of parents and adults in our society to help children, to help them understand
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the world, to help them guide through difficult decisions and difficult stages of their life.
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And it is not helpful to indulge these children in delusions, in fantasies. It is not helpful to
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politicize them and make them political bonds and political tools to fight against your chosen
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political adversary. And what the CBC is doing here, this is not journalism. Like every aspect about this
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is silly and farcical and obviously agenda-driven, but it's also terrible. Like this is not based on
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the truth. This is not based on anything honorable. They are pushing a twisted ideology that actually
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leads to more pain and more suffering in our society that takes confused children and manipulates them
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and leads them to wanting to destroy their own bodies, to prevent them from having children in
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the future. Like everything about this is just so terrible. Like I would usually laugh during Fake
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News Friday and say like, how silly is this news story? We should all make fun of the CBC. But this
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is far worse. This is poisonous. This is cancerous. And this is just one other reason that we seriously
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need to get rid of the CBC. This organization needs to be defunded once and for all. What they do is not
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journalism is activists. It is activism and it is bad for our country. It's bad for society,
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bad for the world, and especially bad for people who read it and digest it and consume it and believe
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that it is true. I'll leave it at that. Thank you so much for tuning in. Have a wonderful weekend.
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It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.