A week after the CBC in Quebec released a documentary exposing the chilling effects of rapid-onset gender dysphoria on young girls, trans activists and trans activist journalists are still up in arms about the harms of these radical procedures. On today's episode of Fake News Friday, host Candice Malmquist breaks down the whole thing down.
00:00:00.000So two weeks after the CBC in Quebec released a documentary exposing the chilling effects of rapid-onset gender dysphoria onto young girls,
00:00:08.240trans activists and trans activist journalists are still up in arms, and they're still spreading lies about the harms of these radical procedures.
00:00:15.760It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
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00:00:49.840Okay, so welcome to Fake News Friday. This is our favorite show around here at True North, so thank you so much for tuning in.
00:00:56.520Last week on the program, we talked about the critics of this Radio Canada documentary called Trans Express, namely Rachel Gilmore, who basically tried to own the CBC and failed spectacularly.
00:01:08.360You should go check out that episode because we went through in great detail and debunked the many, many things that she tried to say about the documentary that were simply just not accurate.
00:01:17.480I told you on that episode that I would do a future episode breaking down the documentary because it is in French.
00:01:23.260It's a longer documentary. It's an hour long.
00:01:26.060And I think it's worthwhile that everybody knows what's in this documentary, even if you don't want to go and watch an hour-long documentary in French with English subtitles.
00:01:34.200Or, you know, like me, if you have sort of basic bad French that you learned back in high school and you, you know, trying to translate it, it might be easier for you to just hear from me.
00:01:45.220I'm going to go through and break down every single thing that happened in the documentary, and I really do think that every Canadian should watch that.
00:01:55.640Now, before I get into it, I want to point out the irony of me focusing a Fake News Friday episode on actually highlighting and applauding and congratulating CBC journalists because I don't think that has ever happened in the history of this show.
00:02:07.740I don't think I've ever done an episode where I actually praise CBC, but credit where credit is due.
00:02:12.740They really did a tremendous job with this documentary.
00:02:15.940And I'll just, again, put that little caveat that this is the French version of CBC, which is kind of different.
00:02:21.040It's quite different than the English version of it.
00:02:24.220It's interesting because even when Pierre Pauly of the Conservative leader talks about defunding the CBC, he doesn't want to defund Radio Canada.
00:02:31.220Radio Canada is different. It has a different flavor.
00:02:33.440However, it's still more mainstream in Quebec, and it's not as ideological or radically left or partisan as is English counterpart.
00:02:42.380Now, don't mistake this for an endorsement of the CBC.
00:02:45.620I still believe the CBC is terrible and that it deserves to be wholly defunded.
00:02:50.700And in case you needed any more convincing, there was a story that did break earlier this week that I'm going to quickly highlight.
00:02:56.020So on Tuesday, we learned that the CBC paid $15 million in bonuses in 2023, this despite mass layoffs that happened at that company.
00:03:06.880So they dished out $14.9 million in bonuses despite laying off hundreds, hundreds of journalists right around Christmas time.
00:03:13.940According to documents received by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, the CBC distributed bonuses to 1,143 of its senior staff members back in October.
00:03:22.920And these numbers only count up to October.
00:03:26.060They haven't had the data yet from December or November.
00:03:29.360So expect that figure to potentially rise even higher once those Christmas bonuses are counted.
00:03:34.900CBC gave 87% of its workforce a pay increase in 2023-2024 fiscal year, amounting to about $11.5 million in increased pay.
00:03:46.700This is partially probably because the Trudeau government negotiated such a great deal for the CBC with Google.
00:03:53.740The Online News Act decided that Google would be giving the Canadian government $100 million and then the Trudeau government would get to dole that out.
00:04:00.480However, they please, the main beneficiary of that Online News Act's $100 million from Google will go to the CBC.
00:04:06.760And the CBC will also receive, on top of that, an additional $90 million from the Trudeau government in your taxes, in my tax dollars, adding up to a total government funding of $1.4 billion.
00:04:22.640This is Trudeau's media arm of the government.
00:04:25.420This is state propaganda, $1.4 billion.
00:04:28.100And yet, despite receiving $1.4 million from the taxpayer to do shoddy, bad journalism, that wasn't enough.
00:04:37.140Here we had the CBC CEO, Catherine Tate, speaking in front of the Heritage Committee in January, complaining about the CBC's budget, spreading misinformation and lies by saying the CBC is facing budget cuts.
00:04:51.300And here she is, just generally being totally useless and totally entitled.
00:04:59.740Unlike the private sector, we cannot manage fluctuations through loans or bridge financing.
00:05:04.580We must balance our budget each and every year.
00:05:08.140Over the three years of the pandemic, as revenues plummeted, most media companies had to lay off staff.
00:05:15.500We shifted resources to maintain services and to protect jobs.
00:05:19.580And we benefited from $21 million in additional government funding for each of the past three years.
00:05:26.440But today, our ability to shift resources and find savings is no longer sufficient to meet the growing deficit.
00:05:34.300So, she's complaining about having to balance her budget every year, something that every small business in Canada, every household in Canada has to do every year.
00:06:17.800We get a fringe, far left, conspiratorial, authoritarian, flat out, agenda driven, often vindictive, often bigoted, very partisan media outlet.
00:06:28.460So, no, don't trust the CBC and don't take this episode to be any kind of an endorsement for the CBC.
00:06:34.060The CBC is terrible and we all know it and I hope it dies as soon as possible.
00:06:38.340All that being said, I do want to spend the show talking about Trans Express, the documentary which was aired on the investigative journalism program known as Enquête.
00:07:41.520I'm going to walk you through the documentary.
00:07:43.580There were five subjects of the story.
00:07:45.760Five women who were sort of featured throughout the documentary.
00:07:48.520And then there were also additional researchers, doctors, therapists, different kind of researchers and experts and specialists, showing both sides of the story.
00:07:58.580So I'm going to walk you through the research and what we learned.
00:08:01.000And then finally, I'm going to talk a little bit about the reaction from the trans activists and the journalists themselves went on to a popular Quebec talk show over the weekend called Le Toute de Monde in Parle.
00:08:12.680And they basically explained who they are, why they made this documentary.
00:08:16.580So we will get to that at the very end of the episode.
00:08:21.000The documentary starts by telling us about the purpose, which is to expose a process of so-called gender affirming care, which, as I've talked about in the past, is really just a euphemism for sex change operations, sex change procedures, including drugs and surgery, that they prescribe to gender dysphoric youth.
00:08:37.860So the documentary explains it specifically focuses on girls and how the medical system, both the public system and the private system, because remember, we're talking about Quebec.
00:08:47.480Quebec has a private system for health care, unlike the rest of Canadians who are stuck with only government health care.
00:08:53.020But anyway, both the public and the private and through medication and surgeries, how this allows adolescents to make irreversible changes.
00:09:01.220So that's what the documentary itself says.
00:09:03.660They do this by following four teenage girls, all with pre-existing medical conditions and mental illnesses, and how they were basically lured into an unnecessary medical intervention transitioning.
00:09:16.700Three of the four girls ended up detransitioning.
00:09:19.940Well, sorry, two of the four girls ended up detransitioning.
00:09:23.200One of them basically stops at the last minute and doesn't get the transition.
00:09:27.320The documentary interviews the four girls, their parents, several doctors, and then we also hear from researchers and activists.
00:09:35.580There's a great deal of research in the documentary, including highlighting studies, statistics, comparing treatments between what's happening in Quebec with other advanced Western countries, namely Scandinavia, but also the United States.
00:09:49.660I just want to note that the documentary is not one-sided.
00:09:52.400It's not something that – it doesn't look like something that we would have produced here at True North.
00:09:57.380It doesn't look like Matt Walsh's What is a Woman.
00:10:07.000Probably spends equal time explaining why these transitionings are good and why the transitioning is bad.
00:10:13.560And I think that that's part of it that's really telling, the fact that the trans activists are so mad that this exists, even though half of the documentary is explaining their perspective and promoting their views.
00:10:25.700They don't like the fact that there's even half of a documentary devoted to pointing out the other side of the story.
00:10:32.360And so I think that tells you a lot about the people who are critical of this documentary.
00:10:59.460And shortly after that suicide attempt, she saw a video on the internet which made her think that she had found the source of all her problems.
00:11:05.560She decided that she didn't fit into either gender, but she definitely did not want to be a girl anymore.
00:11:10.520Her mom quickly, you know, affirmed what she was going through and found a psychologist that specialized in gender dysphoria.
00:11:17.040So at the age of 15, Clara became a patient, and she was quickly prescribed puberty blockers.
00:11:23.160A few months later, she started the next phase, which was testosterone, and she noticed that her voice became much deeper, and she started to grow more hair.
00:11:29.880She noticed that her body was changing, but that did not make her happier.
00:11:33.760She didn't feel happier, nothing changed with her mood, and she still wanted to commit suicide.
00:11:38.440We later learned that after four months on the drug, Clara was hospitalized again for a suicide attempt.
00:11:44.200It was at that point that the doctors began to question her initial diagnosis of gender dysphoria, and the doctors at the hospital she went to made some recommendations.
00:11:52.480They recommended that she quickly, immediately stop taking testosterone, and that she found a new therapist, because they considered the therapist that was kind of leading her down the path of transitioning wasn't doing her job, and that she needed to find a new therapist.
00:12:05.920Well, Clara ignored both those recommendations.
00:12:08.800She went straight back home after leaving the hospital to talk to her gender-affirming therapist again, and she continued to take the testosterone.
00:12:15.720Clara said that she was 100% passing for a teenage boy at this point.
00:12:20.040She was wearing binders over her breasts, which basically tape down your chest so that it doesn't look like you have any breasts.
00:12:27.000She said that those were very uncomfortable.
00:12:29.000For that reason, she decided to move forward with the surgery, and she did go ahead and receive a double mastectomy.
00:12:35.840This is at age 17, after being on drugs for two and a half years.
00:12:40.160We then heard from her parents, who said it was almost the next day, maybe a day or two later, that we all saw that she had made a mistake.
00:12:47.520Clara came back and said, even though I had my breasts removed, I still felt like I had women's breasts, and I couldn't look at the mirror.
00:12:53.760I avoided looking at myself in the mirror.
00:12:56.760And then by the age of 20, she was completely done with the whole trans thing.
00:13:00.640She started wearing a wig and got breast implants so that she would look more like a woman.
00:13:05.920So by the age of 20, she was back to wanting to be a woman.
00:13:09.140So that's the story of the first person, Clara.
00:13:12.080Let's move on to the second subject, is a woman named Jane.
00:13:16.800We learn that she had always been a tomboy, and she always felt a little bit more masculine.
00:13:21.640She said that she was watching a live stream of a trans person who had come out to their family, and everybody was so happy and so proud.
00:13:28.940And it made her feel really good for that person that she was watching to be trans.
00:13:33.820Sadly, we learned with this case, with this woman, Jane, that she was raped in 2020, and that she was dealing with the trauma of that rape as a teenager.
00:13:43.340She said that she kept thinking that if she was a man, if she was a guy, she would have never been raped.
00:14:14.700It's in French, but she is documenting her journey and what it looked like as she transitioned from a girl to a boy.
00:14:21.620So you can just see how quickly, you know, one month, two months, three months, four months, she goes from looking feminine and like a girl to having a deep voice and looking like a man.
00:14:31.400So the documentary later tells us that one and a half years after her first dose, Jane received a double mastectomy, had both her breasts removed at the age of 18.
00:14:52.840I'll just add my own observations to this subject, Jane, here.
00:14:55.680She actually seemed like a pretty happy person and I didn't think that she was going to end up being a detransitioner.
00:15:00.180The way that they showed her, the way that they showed her transition, she struck me as a very happy-go-lucky person.
00:15:05.680She didn't really seem mentally ill, but she was dealing with the trauma of being raped as a teenager.
00:15:11.060I think she was 15 when that happened.
00:15:13.120And so I didn't expect that later in the documentary, she would be one of the people that came to regret her choices because in the clips that we saw, she actually seemed pretty happy.
00:15:21.700But later in the documentary, as I say, we did learn that Jane also became a detransitioner.
00:15:26.480And at the end of the documentary, we're told that, like Clara, Jane realized shortly after her double mastectomy surgeries that she had made a huge mistake.
00:15:35.100She said this, regrets came weeks later when the bandages came off and I saw my new body.
00:15:41.380And she immediately wrote to her surgeon asking if she could be reconstructed.
00:15:45.860Now, this is the incredibly ironic part of the documentary of her story, because as soon as Jane said that she didn't like what she had done, she made a mistake and she wanted to detransition, what was she told?
00:15:56.880She was told that she would have to wait.
00:15:59.320She was told that she needed a psychiatric assessment that would last for more than a year.
00:16:04.380And she was told that the whole process would probably take her three years.
00:16:08.600So when she wanted to transition, she had all of this support.
00:16:11.820She had all the resources, all of this encouragement.
00:16:14.820And then as soon as it was the other direction and she wanted to detransition, none of that existed.
00:16:40.780Imagine being a young woman who feels like you made a mistake.
00:16:43.220And then all of a sudden the professionals, medical professionals around you whom you trusted told you that, you know, you had to wait and that you probably did make a mistake.
00:16:52.500And if it was their own kids, they wouldn't have let them do that.
00:17:18.680She had just spent two months in an eating disorder unit at the hospital.
00:17:22.580And while she was there in this eating disorder unit at St. Justine Hospital in Montreal, she started speaking to a therapist and basically talking about how the reason behind her anorexia led from unwanted changes in her body during puberty,
00:17:40.320specifically, she said that her breasts grew very large, and she felt very uncomfortable.
00:17:44.040She was basically trying to starve herself in order to hide her breasts because she didn't like having big breasts, more or less.
00:17:51.420So at this point, two different doctors began offering her puberty blockers and began suggesting that she was trans.
00:17:58.760Now, according to her father, the gender dysphoria was never formally evaluated.
00:18:02.900There was no psychiatric assessment, no specialists.
00:18:05.240But nonetheless, several doctors started offering her these drugs.
00:21:15.880I told my dad this was the best decision of my life.
00:21:19.180So this is the so-called success story.
00:21:21.360And just my observation is a little sad.
00:21:23.640Just looking at this individual, she appears to be very fragile, very unwell.
00:21:29.120This doesn't appear to be a happy, thriving, well-adjusted person.
00:21:32.180This appears to be a deeply confused and depressed young lady who is clearly unwell.
00:21:38.620So again, those are just my observations.
00:21:40.460But this isn't exactly the poster child of a successful medical treatment in my books.
00:21:45.900Okay, the fifth and final subject of the documentary was that undercover actress that I told you about earlier.
00:21:52.020So Radio Canada has a 14-year-old actress going in, showing just how easy it is to get these drugs.
00:21:59.620And of course, the CBC wouldn't be the CBC if they didn't try to take a knock at private healthcare.
00:22:03.720So basically, the premise here is that if you're in the public system, you have to wait a long time, that there's wait lists somewhere between eight months, any year.
00:22:11.520But there is an alternative, you can go to the private system, you can go to a consultation for $115 out of pocket.
00:22:19.120And with that, you can very easily get a letter.
00:22:21.720Everybody knows, everybody in these communities knows that there's a few doctors who will just basically rubber stamp you, write you that letter, and then you'll be good to go to get your drugs and start your transition.
00:22:34.480So we had the 14-year-old girl, again, she just shows you the process.
00:22:39.000She went to the doctor alone, told the doctor that she was trans.
00:22:41.800The receptionist made her read and sign a seven-page document that just described all the side effects.
00:22:47.400She kind of just breezed through it, signed it, goes into the doctor's office, tells them a made-up story.
00:22:53.300And basically, there's not really a lot to the meeting.
00:22:58.360Within five minutes, they're talking about surgery.
00:23:01.140The entire consultation lasted less than 17 minutes.
00:23:03.820They did not talk about the side effects at all of taking testosterone.
00:23:07.780They only did mention, the doctor did mention, that she would not be able to have children in the future.
00:23:39.500As you can see, there's sort of a trend within all of them.
00:23:42.340These are young women who are very unwell, who are suffering from other mental illnesses.
00:23:45.900And they kind of get, like, sucked into this path where they are impacted by videos that they've seen online, by doctors telling them that this is sort of like a silver bullet to solve all their problems.
00:23:57.720And with the subjects that Radio Canada chose, obviously it wasn't the right decision for them, as three out of the four are not living as trans today.
00:24:06.920Okay. Okay. Let's quickly go through the research here.
00:24:10.080The main person who is quoted throughout the documentary is actually a pro-transitioning professor and researcher named Ali Poulin Saint-Siffran.
00:24:18.620And she is featured through the documentary presenting the pro-trans side of the argument.
00:24:23.940So anytime that they feature a doctor or researcher with an opposing position, they always go back to Saint-Siffran, who gets an opportunity to refute whatever she just said, whatever that other doctor just said.
00:24:35.420So she explains why Quebec does what it does.
00:24:37.860And it's basically based on two theories that are stacked on top of each other.
00:24:41.420The first is called the Dutch Protocol, which basically says that gender must be affirmed.
00:24:46.720They basically took a lot of interviews from older trans people who have transitioned.
00:24:52.000And those people said, look, my childhood was incredibly difficult and my life would have been a lot easier if I could have just transitioned as a child,
00:24:59.460because then I would have never gone through puberty in the other direction that I didn't want to go through puberty.
00:25:03.860And so that was sort of the basis behind the idea that they were going to start treating children who mentioned that they might suffer from the same disorder.
00:25:13.120And so the protocol basically includes three steps.
00:25:18.180The second one is that they add hormone drugs on top of that.
00:25:21.220So if you're a girl transitioning to be a boy, you start taking testosterone.
00:25:24.860And then the third is a surgery, the double mastectomy to remove the breasts.
00:25:29.200The main drug that they use for puberty blockers is called Lelupron.
00:25:33.180And the documentary tells us that the prescriptions for Lelupron for adolescent girls has shot up 600% since 2010.
00:25:41.560And a study showed that nine out of 10 adolescents who take puberty blockers go on to take the next step, which is the testosterone and the medical transition.
00:25:51.620So stacked on top of the Dutch protocol is the idea that only the person, only an individual can decide their own gender.
00:26:06.260They don't want to hear from other doctors who might have concerns about transitioning.
00:26:09.740We hear from this Quebec researcher that I mentioned, Sansefran, who basically just says that interviews with parents are not valid because they are not in the child's head.
00:26:20.860The child and only the child can decide what to do.
00:26:24.380And so that is what we're dealing with here.
00:26:26.800The journalists then go out and try to find the other perspective.
00:26:29.680So they show you that that is what the perspective is for the pro-trans people, and that's basically the foundation of what is done in Quebec is based on those theories.
00:26:38.760But then they also say, look, there is no medical consensus.
00:26:41.940There is heavy debate around this topic.
00:26:44.080And so the team goes out to try to understand what the other side of the story is.
00:26:48.680They go to a conference in New York City that is specifically focused on transgender adolescents.
00:26:54.080And while they're there, they interview a couple of doctors that sort of refute what's going on in Quebec.
00:26:58.460They say that it is impossible to give a letter of recommendation after a single session of therapy.
00:27:03.820And they say that rules state that the child must be evaluated physically, psychologically, and socially.
00:27:11.280We then meet another doctor, an American doctor named Lisa Littman, who says that she started noticing that there was a trend where she would see like one trans girl in a school.
00:27:22.020And then all of a sudden she would see a second, a third, a fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh.
00:27:25.260And she noticed this new concept, basically rapid onset gender dysphoria, where girls and young women start to talk about their discomfort.
00:27:34.700And all of a sudden it's not just one girl coming forward.
00:27:36.800It's like an entire class or entire group of friends.
00:27:39.100Like one person does it and they all want to do it.
00:27:41.840And she's sort of starting to see signs of a social contagion.
00:27:45.620It's interesting, anyone who has read the book Irreversible Damage by Abigail Schreier, who's an investigative journalist with the Wall Street Journal, she put out this great book in 2020, talking about the same concept.
00:27:57.360The idea that this is part of a social contagion.
00:28:00.600That basically the phenomenon of transgenderism, it used to be called transsexuals, they were predominantly men transitioning to be women.
00:28:08.360But then starting around the 2010s, we started to see a lot of girls wanting to transition to be boys, something that really, there was no history of that.
00:28:18.580We hadn't really seen that phenomenon before.
00:28:21.460So that is part of the concern that was outlined in the documentary, saying that these are perhaps not genuine feelings, but rather just confused young girls who are suffering from other illnesses, sometimes borderline personality disorder, being confused for perhaps having gender dysphoria, being influenced by their peers, being influenced by activist doctors, and then leading to these devastating decisions and terrible regret that we saw in the young women in the documentary.
00:28:49.420And then the second major critique of what is going on in Canada and what is going on in Quebec is that, contrary to the Dutch protocol, that transitioning doesn't actually improve mental health.
00:29:02.540So basically they went to Scandinavia and Finland.
00:29:05.780They had one doctor who said that he quickly noticed that several of the new patients were not doing very well afterwards.
00:29:11.300They still had a lot of psychiatric problems, especially depression, anxiety, and autism.
00:29:16.340And in 2019, they decided to evaluate the impact of hormones and other sex change drugs on mental health and basically found that people's mental health doesn't necessarily improve.
00:29:28.700improve. So if you're doing well and you're happy and you're well-adjusted and you transition, you'll probably continue to be happy and well-adjusted after the transition.
00:29:37.700But children who are suffering with mental health issues, that doesn't necessarily improve after transition.
00:29:45.060They continue to struggle. And sometimes it's not worth basically that this is not a miracle cure for all kinds of problems, which to me is pretty common sense.
00:29:53.580They then go to Sweden and they talk to Dr. Landon, who, again, I featured him in the previous episode that I did when I was talking about Rachel Gilmore,
00:30:02.580because she criticized Dr. Landon saying he was a quack. Well, actually, he's the head of a very prestigious hospital and university in Sweden.
00:30:10.580So he analyzed 195 studies to evaluate the effect on hormones on kids, basically concluded that there is no conclusive data,
00:30:19.580which provides that there is benefits to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, and suicide ideation.
00:30:25.580That means overall, he said that we cannot recommend this treatment.
00:30:29.580So hence, this is why in both Finland and Sweden, doctors have completely given up on this idea of puberty blockers with some exceptions,
00:30:38.580but more or less that the law is that hormones are banned for anyone under 16 years old and that double mastectomies are banned for minors.
00:30:47.580And so the documentary basically concludes by saying that in Quebec, maybe we need to study more about what other countries are doing and keep updated with the latest science and basically just urge for more caution.
00:31:01.580And so that's it. That's the entire documentary. Nothing, nothing homophobic, nothing crazy, nothing anti-trans, nothing ideological,
00:31:10.580unlike the criticism that we saw from the radical trans activists, including people like Rachel Gilmore and lots of trans activists online.
00:31:19.580We also saw a article over at Extra, which is the gay LGBTQ plus magazine in Canada, just really, really criticizing this documentary,
00:31:28.580making it seem like the people who made it were absolute monsters.
00:31:32.580Contrary to all that, the documentary is very reasonable, very balanced, very even.
00:31:37.580And just again, to show how far off base the left wing radical trans activists and journalists who are critiquing the documentary are,
00:31:46.580the journalists behind this documentary went on La Toute de Monde del Parle.
00:31:50.580La Toute de Monde del Parle is the most popular talk show in Quebec, probably the most popular and watched talk show in all of Canada,
00:31:57.580just because so many people in Quebec watch it and consume it and it really impacts the culture in Quebec.
00:32:03.580So these journalists were on there and they sort of refute every single thing that these trans activists are saying about them.
00:32:10.580So they were asked, you know, what compelled you to make this documentary?
00:32:14.580And, you know, they say basically that they just received an onslaught of concerned parents writing to them and communicating to them and telling them the same kind of story
00:32:23.580and how their daughters were basically being pushed towards medical transitions and they felt uncomfortable about it.
00:32:29.580It was interesting. They talked about how most of the people who wrote to them, they were sort of expecting them to be conservatives and people who were like traditionally opposed to, you know, all kinds of different changes when it comes to gender and sex.
00:32:42.580But it was the opposite. They're usually mostly like liberal parents who are very open minded and very open to homosexuality and all that kind of stuff.
00:32:50.580And they were the ones who were experiencing this. They were also asked about the Scandinavian model.
00:32:56.580And they basically go through and talk about how these procedures are now banned in Finland and Sweden and how hormones are not used at all over there.
00:33:05.580And then finally, we heard them say that a lot of the parents, the reason that they went to Radio Canada and not like a conservative or a right wing media outlet is because they didn't want to be seen as attacking trans ideology.
00:33:20.580They didn't want their stories to be hijacked. They just wanted to tell the story so that people in Quebec could understand what was happening and how it was happening so fast.
00:33:29.580So, again, I think that the appearance over on the Tutamon really just dismantles any of the arguments that you see from radical trans activists.
00:33:39.580A final news story that I wanted to include here is that earlier this week on Tuesday, we learned that the UK will follow Finland and Sweden in banning puberty blockers for minors.
00:33:52.580So here is a little news clip explaining what that looks like.
00:33:56.580A little bit of breaking news, which may be of interest to some of you. It's about puberty blockers.
00:34:01.580Now, these are drugs that are used to delay the changes of puberty in transgender youngsters.
00:34:08.580In terms of how they are prescribed by the NHS, there has been a lot of controversy over the last few years about this.
00:34:15.580At the moment, they are only prescribed to children attending gender identity services as part of clinical research.
00:34:21.580And they are not routinely offered to children at gender identity clinics, but they are still offered.
00:34:28.580Well, the government, NHS England, has just confirmed that children will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at gender identity clinics.
00:34:36.580This is coming from NHS England, which just broke in the last few moments.
00:34:41.580So some good news coming out of England. And I think that we can all hope that that's the direction that we're heading and hopefully Canada will be the next one.
00:34:50.580Like I said, I think this documentary will have a huge impact in Quebec.
00:34:53.580The way it was presented was very fair and very moderate.
00:34:56.580And I think reasonable people will see it and conclude that it is the wrong decision to allow children to make these kind of changes to their body.
00:35:05.580And despite, you know, the journalists taking some shots at conservatives saying that they didn't want the story to be painted as a conservative issue.
00:35:12.580The reality is that the conservatives are correct on this issue.
00:35:18.580They cannot mutilate their body and all of a sudden become the other sex mutilating a child's body in the name of progress is wrong.
00:35:26.580And it is evil and history will not look kindly on those pushing this ideological butchery.
00:35:32.580Every Canadian should watch this documentary.
00:35:34.580Every Canadian should reach out to their local representative, their member of parliament and demand action.
00:35:40.580They should demand that these barbaric practices be banned, especially for minors, just as they've been banned in the UK, Sweden and Finland.